"Summer Is Full Of Hope"
Jasper Krabbé Paints Photography

Exhibition: February 14 - May 2, 2015
Opening: February 14, 18-20:30 h

From February 14th until May 2nd, Kahmann Gallery will show over 20 new photographic and painted works of Jasper Krabbé.

The work of Jasper Krabbé (Amsterdam, 1970) often reflects memories of places, events and persons. Not as clear images, but in a way memories usually appear: disrupted by other images, incomplete, without logic and never unambiguous.

Krabbé's process of creation is not lineair towards a certain end; it's rather a sublimation of recollected images. In his paintings he often uses materials he finds along his way: envelopes, wrapping paper, pages out of books and encyclopedias. With this approach he mingles the original function and meaning of the material with his own personal images.

In his photography Krabbé has a similar attitude, incorporating paint, text and even debris from his studio into the photographic pieces. Themes such as dreams and the ephemeral, but also poetry, function as point of departure.

His work has been admitted in the public collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Nederlandse Bank, Museum de Fundatie Zwolle, and in many private collections.