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Artist Exhibitions:
Collective Exhibition at Agora
Gallery, Feb.2006 in Chelsea
New York City.
Collective Exhibition at Agora
Gallery, June- 2007 in Chelsea
New York City.
Current exhibition Jan. 4 to
29 Jan. 2008, at Amsterdam
whitney gallery in Chelsea
NYC.
Reception Jan. 10- 2008 from
6-8 PM ( by Invitation Only)
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Artist Galleries:
upcoming exhibition at ico
Gallery NYC. Sept 2-23
2008....
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Artist Reviews:
ArtisSpectrum Magazine -
Volume 19-May- 2008-
Ilona van Hoek ardently
engages the observable world,
re-envisioning landscapes,
figures, and the cosmos with
unrestrained energy that
catapults her paintings into a
surreal space between fact and
fiction. Her skyscapes and
landscapes have enough
descriptive detail to anchor
them in reality, but ...
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Collections:
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Ilona Van Hoek
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With the outbreak of the Second World War the dream of my parents was ruined. My mother, 17 and my father, 25 wanted to commit themselves to art, but could not. The loss of material goods and the birth of my siblings at the end of the war provided an almost hopeless balance.
I was born in Rahnsdorf, Berlin, 1949. At a young age I created paintings with watercolor. As soon as my parents recognized my talent they realized that maybe I would follow their footsteps. They stimulated me and provided general awareness and information, facts, ideas, truth and principles of the Arts. When I was 8, I painted with oil and had a joint exhibition with my father.
My father’s paintings are characterized by lack of proper art material and as a child I already had a clear understanding that a painting could be much better created, if appropriate material would be available. Further, I never was intrigued by abstract art and cannot imagine that you can be expressive in this context, while others claim they can. All I know is that Picasso, for example, painted realistic before he started abstract art.
I believe in: “Don’t paint what you can photograph and show no photo what you can paint.” With these thoughts in mind I paint, and I reject to reproduce things, objects and other examples, but with exclusion of historical symbols. I try to show with my work the past, with things that occupy us Humans. For example: The symbol of the “Double Axe” originated from the “Labyrinth”
Nowadays, you could wear it to show the feminine side. One does not think why and from where.
I want to point out and inspire to some thoughts. This is how some of my themes developed: Is the pyramid only half of its appearance and could such a design style come from a flying object? Does the head of the Sphinx truly represent a lion? If not, to which constellation belongs it then to?
Painting “Nord”: I actually meant Odin with that. At the same time I believe the viewer or observer of my paintings should look for themselves, that is why the Title “ Nord” with the snake its meant the “Mitgardschlange”
In the peaceful gathering I asked why people with whatever religion all fold their hands in the same position when praying. With the paintings “Leben in Röhren und Kugeln” and the “Vulkan” I tried to visualize the future. We humans should cherish what we have, otherwise I can imagine that our world might look like what I present in those paintings.
Ilona van Hoek.
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