Jurriaan Molenaar
Jurriaan Molenaar (1968) paints architecture: residential boulevards, industrial areas, banks and offices. Often empty spaces that offer a view to even more emptiness. A clear fascination can be recognized for the work of architects such as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and their interaction with the relationship between inside and outside. For Molenaar, establishing connections between these two elements is essential. To achieve his goal, he uses sober, muted colors, labyrinthine perspectives, razor-sharp lines and an almost invisible brush.
He himself calls his way of painting "constructed realism", with no other storyline missing. He says: "In my 'buildings' the 'visitor' is given the silence and space as a gift. Architecture is not much more than walls and holes. But a wall has a double psychological charge: it insulates you and also offers protection. With a hole it's just like that: you can peek through it, but can also be looked at. I want to show all of that in my work. ”
The studio of Jurriaan Molenaar is extremely neat, the walls clean and straight, his large worktable tidy. On the floor are hundreds of pots of pigment, a sea of colour almost incongruous in this austere 'architecture studio'. Line, light and space define the image in the paintings of Jurriaan Molenaar.
This 'science-man' has mastered the laws of perspective and geometry down to the finest details. Windows in a wall, a swimming pool, an open door. They are like tests in traditional geometry with the complication of different vanishing points. Molenaar looks for leeway in the geometry, leeway in the perspective and the vanishing points, without, however, violating these. At first sight very realistically represented, further insight reveals that there is nevertheless a slight torsion in the shape of the swimming pool and the aspect of the window in the wall is almost implausible; leeway in what seems real. In Molenaar’s paintings colours are restrained and monochrome. In order to suggest depth or light he uses no changes of tone or colour. The areas of colour are, however, painted with extreme precision, and also remarkable sensitivity. And this is where the warmth lies, the poetry, for the contemplative viewer.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
1987-1992. Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht
1990-1991. Russian Academy of Arts, Leningrad
1995-1995. Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
Exhibitions
2021 Uit<>Zicht, 75 + 1 jaar Vrijheid, Provinciehuis Noord-Holland, Haarlem
2020 Inception, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam
2020 Art Rotterdam, stand BorzoGallery, Rotterdam
2019 Fermate, galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, Duitsland
2019 Caltex, Jan van Hoof galerie, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
2018 Périphérique (duo met Koen Vermeule), Lieu d’art contemporain, Narbonne,
2018 Vice Versa, BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2018 What makes a window, University of Applied Sciences, Detmold, Duitsland
2017 Art Cologne / Borzo Gallery
2017 Jurriaan Molenaar, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam
2016 Holland Highway, Gasunie, Groningen
2016 Holland Highway, Jan van Hoof galerie, ’s-Hertogenbosch
2016 PAN Amsterdam, stand Jan van Hoof galerie
2015 Bakóca, Jan van Hoof galerie, ’s-Hertogenbosch
2015 Jan Andriesse & Jurriaan Molenaar, BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
Group Exhibitions
2021 Memorial Twin Towers, New York State Museum
2021 Seminar and Exhibition: Storytelling; Gebäudegeschichten erfinden und visualisieren, University of Applied Sciences, Detmold, Duitsland
2021 Reality pictured, BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2021 Ode aan het landschap, Zandvoorts Museum
2021 Art Rotterdam, Marian Cramer Projects
2020 Koop dit of dit of dit, curator Ellis Kat - Mondriaan Fonds, Capital C, Amsterdam
2019 Seminar and Exhibition: Ecklösung, University of Applied Sciences, Detmold, Duitsland
2019 Lang niet gezien, nog niet gezien, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 PAN Amsterdam, Jan van Hoof galerie
2019 KunstRAI Amsterdam, Jan van Hoof galerie
2019 Spring Propositions 2019, SBK Amsterdam
2018 Vice Versa, cross-over with HOH Architecten, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam
2018 POP IN, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam
2018 KunstRAI Amsterdam, Jan van Hoof galerie
2018 25 jaar Jan van Hoof Galerie, Jan van Hoof galerie, ’s-Hertogenbosch
2017 Collectie Wilploo, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede
2017 PAN Amsterdam, Jan van Hoof galerie
2016 Van Gogh Mini’s, MOTI, Museum of the Image, Breda
2016 Culture of Colors, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (cat.)
2016 Het ABC van de Collectie, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2015 Art Rotterdam, Borzo Gallery en We Like Art
2014 Gedeelde Passie, Aanwinsten 2008-2013, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2014 PAN Amsterdam, Jan van Hoof galerie
2014 We Like Art, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
2014 KunstRAI, Jan van Hoof galerie, Amsterdam
2014 Art Rotterdam, galerie Reuten
Acquired by museum
New York State Museum (2021)
MoMa Moscow (2021)
I. Malevich (2019)
Rijksmuseum Twenthe (2000)
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken (2021)
Cultureel attaché New York (2011, 2021)
Cultureel attaché New York (2000)
Art&Project
Tanya Rumpff Art Consultancy (2005)
Paul van Rosmalen, Borzo (2014, 2015, 2018)
Marian Cramer, Marian Cramer Projects (2010, 2012, 2015,2018, 2020)
Jan van Hoof, Jan van Hoof galerie (2013, 2014, 2018)
Jaap Roell, Kunstruimte Kuub (2016)
Jan Willem Schrofer, Rijksakademie (2000)
SBK Amsterdam (2019)
Margot Selders, DNB (2019)
Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Narbonne (2018)
Gasunie (2016)
Rijkswaterstaat (2016)
BAM (2016)
Ikea Duitsland (2017)
BPD (voorheen Bouwfonds)
HOH Architecten (2018)
PON (2020, 2021)
Collectie Wilploo (2015, 2017)
Collectie Hugo (2017)
Collection Richiardi, Narbonne (2018)
Collection Zaluski, Perpignan (2018)
