Can't Stop Thinking, 2017
Robert van Bolderick  

Painting : acrylic · 70 x 70 x 2 cm 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang

$3,501 3 501 $US

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70 x 70 x 2 cm 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth

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This composition unfolds as a vibrant mosaic of memory. The artist blends acrylic, oil, and tempera through a sophisticated collage process. Fragments of text and human figures emerge from a deep blue void. These elements float like echoes of a distant past. The narrative remains intentionally elusive. It mimics the fuzzy nature of a dream.
A rich palette of golden yellows and cobalt blues creates a rhythmic balance. The layout recalls Dadaist aesthetics but replaces aggression with a benevolent serenity. Each cut-out serves as a symbolic anchor. They invite the viewer to reconstruct a lost history. The layering suggests a continuum of time. It captures the delicate tension between reality and metaphor.
The surface feels dense yet ethereal. Textual snippets provide glimpses of meaning without revealing the full story. This approach transforms the canvas into a vessel for collective footprints. The artwork balances structural precision with emotional spontaneity. It culminates in a complex formal arrangement where figures dissolve into a luminous, textured background.

Portrait

Women

Humans

Yellow

Dark blue

Robert van Bolderick, Can't Stop Thinking
Sweden  • 1968

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By using a mixed technique that combines acrylic, oil, gauche, tempera, to the praxis of collage, it gives life to the artworks with a dreamlike and vibrant scenario that imprison on the canvas tracks of the real and of metaphorical evocations. Rhythm, pattern and balance is important in the paintings. Images and text fragments sticks out, but don't give the viewer all information, just like dreams and memories its fragmented and fuzzy, just gives a glimpse of what have happened.

Using collage is influenced and refer to a typically Dadaist aesthetics, but at the same time they're purged of the Dada polemic force and iconoclastic fury. In fact, the paintings colour, cut-outs, symbols of a mysterious past, like of the present, slowly emerge on the surface in a continuum of summons and recovery, composing and compressing themselves into new formal structures capable of returning the memory of reasons and feelings, and emotionally closer to the Rauschenberg's memory to aim for a particular text and image to have an underlying meaning.

Documenting the lives and our footprint through time and what the future has to show, history repeats itself. This has happened, mixed with a dreamy, ethereal world.

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