Doornink’s eye for design and close links to the world of fashion is evident, along with his fascination with the Italian and Dutch masters. Ger Doornink frames the woman on two axes, marks the expressive centre of the portrait and then, paints. He makes up the contours of the eyes like fairy masks and paints the lips like a Hollywood set designer. The result are profiles bathed in eternity, like a vintage from the future, cut our of the air in grey, sepia or black and white with bold splashes of colour.
The painter, illustrator and photographer has spent several years in Tokyo, Milan and now Amsterdam, and this mix is clearly visible in his catwalk-ready almost-geishas. A master of the snapshot, of the feminine gesture, of the colouring of the past and the fading of the future, as if the negative does not reveal itself, but has a revelation.
Something magical is transmitted from Doornink's eye to ours, through a code that transpires modernity, sensitivity, delicacy and strength at the same time. There are invisible colours that Ger Doornink makes visible and gazes, that are underlined only by an appropriate flash of light. That is why his work, despite being so contemporary, seems to have always existed.
In this exhibition, Villa del Arte Galleries selected Doornink's most fascinating original artworks to develop limited editions of 50 on Hahnemühle German Etching paper.
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