Paintings and Works on Paper Marian Plug from 8 June to 25 August 2019 This summer, alongside Frans Hals’s family portraits, the Fondation Custodia presents works by the Dutch painter and graphic artist Marian Plug (born 1937). The rooms in the lower ground floor host watercolours and prints produced by her over the past sixty years, as well as a selection of twenty-one recent oil paintings.
Presentation Marian Plug, Yellow III, 2013 Oil on canvas. – 115 × 125 cmPhoto: Pieter Boersma, Amsterdam © ADAGP, Paris, 2019 The choice of Marian Plug’s works for the exhibition is based on the evocation of nature. Mountains, forest, rocks and plenty of water. Plug is a latter-day romantic landscape artist: she uses more or less the same ingredients as Caspar David Friedrich two centuries ago, but in her case, they become more pictorial forms than conveyors of meaning. A beach in the evening provides a pretext for the juxtaposition of a cold midnight blue with a warm pink. An artificial lake is first and foremost an intense blue shape that gradually grows lighter. A bush, an explosion of yellow. Marian Plug, Sauve, 1963 Watercolour. – 25,5 × 44 cmPhoto: Henni van Beek, Amsterdam © ADAGP, Paris, 2019 Marian Plug’s watercolours are painted directly from nature, often during her holidays in France, Spain or Great Britain. The paintings however are all independent works. Each has its own origin, sometimes inspired by a memory. They are reconstructed later in the studio, from her imagination. ‘When I am outside, I cannot think straight’, she explains in the catalogue. ‘My attention is drawn to what I see. Painting in the studio is quite different.’ Marian Plug, Current, 2012 Oil on canvas. – 115 × 125 cmPhoto: Pieter Boersma, Amsterdam © ADAGP, Paris, 2019 A landscape of the South of France will give above all the impression of ‘scorching summer’. A rainbow arches like a sculpture in the landscape, ‘its feet plunged into the grass’. A wave is a ‘trumpet of foam in a rough sea’. A high waterfall in Ireland becomes a flash of white lightning, shining even as night falls. ‘I am not an abstract painter’, Marian Plug claims, ‘I need representation. But I use it. The painting emerges out of figuration’.
Catalogue The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue (in French and Dutch) in which the artist is interviewed in depth about her work by Gijsbert van der Wal. Marian Plug. Peintures et œuvres sur papierFondation Custodia, 2019119 pp., 25,5 × 19 cm, soft cover25,00 € French edition: ISBN 978 90 6868 794 1 ORDER Ne renseignez pas ce champ To order this book, please fill out the form below. You will receive an invoice by e-mail, including package and postage fees. Payments can be made by bank transfer. Title Quantity (Required) First name (Required) Last name (Required) Company Address (Required) Postal code City (Required) Country (Required) E-mail (Required) Phone number Please leave this field empty: Remarks The information supplied by you through this form is collected by the Fondation Custodia in order to process your order. In accordance with the law Informatique et Libertés of 6 January 1978, modified, and with the Règlement Général sur la Protection des Données, you have the legal right to access your data, to rectify them, to restrict them, to transfer them or to suppress them. In order to exercise these rights, you can contact the Fondation Custodia, 121 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris, +33 (0)1 47 05 75 19, coll.lugt@fondationcustodia.fr. To find out more about our Privacy Policy. CANCEL Dutch edition: ISBN 978 90 6868 787 3 ORDER Ne renseignez pas ce champ To order this book, please fill out the form below. You will receive an invoice by e-mail, including package and postage fees. Payments can be made by bank transfer. Title Quantity (Required) First name (Required) Please leave this field empty: Last name (Required) Company Address (Required) Postal code City (Required) Country (Required) E-mail (Required) Phone number Remarks The information supplied by you through this form is collected by the Fondation Custodia in order to process your order. In accordance with the law Informatique et Libertés of 6 January 1978, modified, and with the Règlement Général sur la Protection des Données, you have the legal right to access your data, to rectify them, to restrict them, to transfer them or to suppress them. In order to exercise these rights, you can contact the Fondation Custodia, 121 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris, +33 (0)1 47 05 75 19, coll.lugt@fondationcustodia.fr. To find out more about our Privacy Policy. CANCEL
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