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We introduce you to a new artist at MPV Gallery: Bas Geerts. Bas Geerts, born in 1971 in Leiden, is a visual artist, music programmer and writer. His work is characterized by an openness of form, a kind of agility that manifests itself on several levels simultaneously.

In the first place, there is the play of colors. Bright hues enter into a synthesis and optically merge into new shades. Each color seems in motion and seems to want to assimilate with its complement - no doubt also the result of using pure pigments in paint made by Geerts himself.

Secondly, the painting itself seems to change according to the position the viewer takes in relation to the work: is he looking at the canvas at an angle or straight, is he standing near or far? The reflection of the metal sheet will constantly change, while at a distance, the lines of the composition, still clearly discernible up close, merge into a continuous whole.

In addition to color, the openness of form is reflected in the way the composition of the paintings is created. 

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