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Artist Statement:
Again and again I fathom my
mind for a complete
masterpiece. One that just
needs putting down. Void is
what I find and void is what I
fill my canvas with."...
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“The method is only the means. The motive forms the peg onto which he hangs his emotions. It may be obvious that Leo de Jong doesn’t attempt to portray any visual reality. The intensity of his work hints at the underlying forces governing life itself.”
Leo Duppen, director Cobra Museum.
“Schillernd, rouh, tiefgründig die Werken von Leo de Jong”
Tension and resolution are expressed in the use of colours and the composition of powerful planes. Old paper and earth colours are reminiscent of nature and its metamorphoses. Even the scribblings like graffiti in the paintings seem archaic and unreadable. Leo de Jong scratches up his messages.
There seems to be a secret to which the spectator is not allowed to.
On the one hand spontaneous and on the other hand well reflected upon in its construction, the ‘ Staircase’ consist of small rollers of papers of papers as of ascending towards a black port. Here the artist from Rotterdam comes close to essence without being too emphatic...
The “Münchener Merkuri’, Munchen
Each painting of Leo de Jong is a fresch start, unhindered by forced preconceptions restricting his creativity and hampering his imaginative play. The painting comes as surprise, as an inpredictable adventure. They are creations of the moment. But no matter how intuitive and associative this procedure may be, his work shows a great consistensy, an accurate structure and a well balanced attention for tone and rhythm. He always manages to succesfully walk the tightrope between tension and dissolution.
He keeps challenging himself and finding new ways And every new way he imprints with his personal pictorial hallmark.
Marion Busch, Art Historican Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
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