Gerard Venbrux

Boxmeers Weekblad, Wednesday March 5, 1997, page 13:

Contemporary art Venbrux in Beugen

BEUGEN - Commissioned by the municipality of Boxmeer, Gerard Venbrux has created a visual work of art for the community center of Beugen. The image consists of bands of different colors and sizes, an interruption and shifts.

This involves two parts, one is flat and in the other part the individual color stripes come, as it were, to the position of the viewer. Which means that the image simultaneously reflects the viewer's perceptual position from both near and far. On the one hand, Venbrux's images expose structures in the perception of those images and on the other hand, they are open to memories of sensations from reality.

The statue that Venbrux made for his native village of Beugen is placed on the facade opposite the church. The artwork changes appearance as you drive past it. Subtle color differences between the two parts become visible when you stop to look at them, for example on the church square. The change in light also causes the color difference in the image to constantly change.

Gerard Venbrux (1962) lives and works in Haarlem. Venbrux exhibited his work at, among others, the Gele Rijder in Arnhem, De Weijer in Boxmeer, artists' initiative Casco in Utrecht, Pulchri Studio The Hague and in the Vishal in Haarlem.

On the occasion of the transfer of the visual work of art to the community on March 8, an exhibition with work by Gerard Venbrux has been set up at the artist initiative Alarm in Beugen, which can be seen until Sunday, March 16.