BY FRANCHESCA BARATTA
Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City is exhibiting Inner Homeland, a collection of new works by Dutch artist Hannah van Bart. On view now through November 16, this exhibition marks the painter’s seventh solo show with the gallery. Each piece cognizant of a recollection, van Bart uses oil on linen as a peephole to a place that cannot be clarified as real or imagined.
Inner Homeland elicits a fleeting memory; parallel to what we might understand as a dream, it permits the viewer a reminiscence that does not belong to them, creates on the canvas an acquainted echo–if we do not know it from this life, we knew it in a previous one.
Brume-kissed paintings of green landscapes are derived from pencil drawings that the painter made while living in Oud-Zuilen in the 80s, reimagined and reworked this year. Shown alongside gazing portraits, still life’s of solitary tea cups and teapots, or a pair of boots that belong to no wearer, she inspires an admiration of detail while simultaneously allowing such detail to become its own landscape.
