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September Issue 2006
The Arts Council of Rock Hill and York County in Rock Hill, SC, Features Works by Kees Salentijn
The Arts Council of Rock Hill and York County will feature works by Dutch artist Kees Salentijn in the Perimeter Gallery at the Center for the Arts, in Rock Hill, SC. The exhibit, Kees Salentijn: Between Abstraction and Figuration, will be on view through Sept. 29, 2006.
When Amsterdam's famous Rietveld Academy rejected his application for a second time, Dutch painter Kees Salentijn (b. 1947) simply showed up for classes, hoping no one would notice he wasn't supposed to be there. That worked for three months. By then, his talent and work ethic was evident, and Salentijn was allowed to stay. At graduation in 1968, the Netherlands' National Academy of Art accepted him.
Salentijn has a broad range of talents. His work of the last 25 years fits within the post-CoBrA tradition. CoBrA was a movement in the late 1940's - early 1950's in Northern Europe named after Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam, the hometowns of many of its members. In Kees Salentijn: Between Abstraction and Figuration, Wim Roef states, "After he learned from looking at Willem de Kooning how to combine abstracted landscape and figuration, Salentijn established the parameters of his art. A duality between abstraction and figuration became central. He developed a personal style that combined the expressionist, painterly, vigorous swat with smaller but equally expressionist marks that are quick and slightly nervous but sure and on-target. Salentijn, wrote Leo Duppen, the former director of the Netherlands' CoBrA Museum, draws like a painter and paints like a draftsman."
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