With her most recent work, displayed in the Playstation exhibition, Koks goes one step further. The suggestive elements remain, but they are combined with an exploration of the nature of painting itself. ‘What is a painting and where does it stop?’ are just two of the many questions she puts to herself. She stretches the medium’s limits experimentally by painting directly onto the wall, or by presenting monoprints and fragments cut out of her own paintings as a new entity. Some of the work looks more abstract, but it is still related to the intangible appearance of things and ideas.
Take illusion apart, add reality
Aukje Koks
Aukje Koks recently completed her first year at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. Her egg tempera paintings are clearly narrative. Colourful spaces are characterised by a certain emptiness. At the same time, however, we are left with a very strong sense of the presence of something invisible, or of an event that has gone unnoticed. Aukje Koks is able to create a certain atmosphere by making us conscious of what we cannot actually see.
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