"PAN Amsterdam, the Netherland's leading fair in art, antiques and design."

Visit MPV Gallery during PAN Amsterdam from Sunday 24 November to Sunday 1 December in stand 80 at the RAI in Amsterdam.

This year, MPV Gallery is presenting work by Lita Cabellut, Lu Luo, Diederik Schneemann, Hanneke Beaumont, Jacqueline Bozon, Sylvestre Gauvrit, Ted Noten and Willi Siber.

Tickets can be ordered at pan.nl

The private opening is on Saturday 23 November for invited guests.

LITA CABELLUT //

MPV Gallery is proud to announce the presence of internationally acclaimed artist Lita Cabellut at PAN Amsterdam 2024. Cabellut is among the most influential contemporary artists today, and her work has been rewarded with prestigious awards and exhibited in leading art institutions.

In recent years, Lita Cabellut has received several prestigious awards. In addition, Cabellut was recently honoured with a major exhibition at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, one of Spain's most prestigious art academies. This solo exhibition, inspired by Goya's Disparates, showcases her unique, emotionally charged works to a wide audience and is highly appreciated by art critics and art lovers alike.

Lu LUO //

For Lu Luo (1971, CHN), her artworks are a kind of fascinating stage on which stories converge through different times and spaces. Playfully, she articulates her questions about the self, being, nurturing, relationality and the complicated experiences of emotions, feelings and moods on the canvas.

Lu Luo was born in Sichuan, a province in southwest China. Luo's work is characterised by the recurring motif of classical Chinese kimonos and theatre costumes from original Chinese plays and operas. This is done in different ways and with different materials. Initially, she used the original fabrics of these beautiful costumes directly on the canvas. But gradually she also developed other methods and visual elements that allow her to incorporate the characteristic shapes, patterns and specific symbols that adorn the garments.

JACQUELINE BOZON //

Jacqueline Bozon (1966, NL) uses all her experiences, encounters and observations in her work and transforms them into a colourful interplay of lines. Colour is her language, a universal language that can be easily understood but also has multiple translations. She puts the lines on the canvas with her finger to feel the relief of the line so that extra depth is perceived. From 2 to 3-dimensional, grabbing the depth just like the layering in people.

Her vision of life is reflected in her work in a colourful combination of lines that take you on an adventure. Her technique is as mysterious as it is perfect; many painted layers separated by carefully applied synthetic resin. This creates a particularly spatial image.

‘The art is to see without thinking and not thinking you see’.

HANNEKE BEAUMONT //

Hanneke Beaumont (1947, NL) is a Dutch sculptor who explicitly chooses modelling art. Initially, her oeuvre is defined by terracotta sculptures of life-size human figures in various poses; loners, but also couples or small groups. Layer by layer, she creates her characters by building them out of clay without using a skeleton. In the course of her artistic career, Beaumont has also chosen to use bronze and cast iron.

In her work, Beaumont aims to express the universal rather than the individual of human beings. Beaumont's human figures are androgynous and show no specific personal traits; they are not portraits. They emerge from the artist's imagination and their postures and facial features are universal. They often exude an atmosphere of human fragility and anticipation prior to a decision, but sometimes a surprising decisiveness appears in a pose.

diederik schneemann //

Artist and designer Diederik Schneemann (b 1979, BE) is internationally known for his works that balance between art and design. Applied art in the broad sense of the word, meaning more than aesthetics alone. His works are characterised by evoking astonishment, a memory or a feeling. In his use of materials and shapes, he often uses existing objects and forms that carry their own charge or story.

Diederik Schneemann attracted a lot of attention at PAN in recent years, with his Cherished collection and Lucky Charms collection. And this year, a fine selection from this collection will be shown again.

CHERISHED COLLECTION //
In this ongoing collection, Schneemann transforms objects from personal collections into new design items. Think perfume bottles, matchboxes, smurfs or cigar bands. Where some see a meaningless pile of matchboxes, Diederik sees stories. A personal collection cherished over decades represents a certain value. Diederik Schneemann recognises that value and treats a personal collection with the same dedication as he would have done with an expensive material like marble or bronze.

LUCKY CHARMS COLLECTION //
Happiness is something we cannot grasp or measure. Some think it exists, others don't. In Lucky Charms, Schneemann tries to capture happiness in his designs. Because what if all the luck of throwing 6 ends up in a die? Then Schneemann's Lucky Charms are full of luck! Because all the dice used for this collection have all rolled 6 before being placed in the design.

Ted noten //

Ted Noten is a designer and artist who became known to the general public for his bags and jewellery in which unusual objects and curiosities were cast in acrylic blocks. Ted Noten's designs act as a critique of contemporary life and the history of jewellery, as well as the broader context of product design. The underlying, recurring theme of his work is challenging conventions and processes of habituation, of the familiar and the unusual.

This year, work by this versatile artist can once again be admired at PAN Amsterdam. Especially for this fair, storyteller Ted Noten created a collection of ‘Stories’; PMMA bricks, with moulded objects, all unique.

The evocative titles lift a corner of the veil. Take for instance ‘Fly-Express’, an object in which Ted Noten tells an almost fairytale-like story about a fly transporting a diamond through the air. Or ‘Omerta’, which tells a critical political story about the mafioso of today's pharmaceutical industry.

sylvestre gauvrit //

In his designs, Sylvestre Gauvrit (1977, FR) explicitly chooses flowing, organic forms. He experiences these forms in nature, in human movements and in the shapes and patterns evoked by the natural elements air, water and fire.

The sculptor usually uses marble or stainless steel. The new technical possibilities he applies allow him to give the material a natural flowing form instead of leaving traces of the process of chopping, chiselling and sanding.
Sylvestre's work exudes an almost natural ease as the lines and surfaces flow and swirl. A quality you find in both his small works and his monumental sculptures.

Sylvestre made a sculpture of Calacatta marble especially for PAN Amsterdam. Calacatta marble is particularly loved for its dark veins, which give it a warm and soft appearance.

willi siber //

The sculptures and wall objects by Willi Siber (1949, DE) are known for their dynamic forms and reflective qualities, creating playful interactions with light and space. From his studio in Germany, Siber pushes the boundaries of material and form. He captivates a wide audience with his unique artistic vision and receives worldwide recognition for his work thanks to his ability to transform simple materials into visually stunning works.

Besides its formal inventiveness, Siber's work is also notable for its use of colour. With a palette that ranges from muted earth tones to energetic pinks and greens, he seems to instinctively match form and colour, as it were. Arched base sculptures, covered in immaculate layers of lacquer, possess a luxurious sheen and beckon like jewels, while other works, covered in dark, powdery shades, are calm and subdued.