Tom Melsens paintings fuse the dramatic and aggressive into a melancholy that can be seen as a result of his peripatetic travels, a reflection of the places he has experienced. His paintings emerge out of a liminal space between the intelligibility of representation and abstractions poetic theatrics. Indeed, Melsens paint handling exists in a space that makes odd bedfellows of Peter Doig and Cecily Brown as his compositions blend unsettling passages of quietude and conservative color choices with consistently bold punches of intuitive paint application and occasional layers of glowing chroma. With an unflinching gaze, Melsen captures the jouissance of painterly turmoil through which a balanciAdvertng act between discomfort and pleasure reveals the psychological essence of captured identities and landscapes
(P. Weiner/ Critique Collective)
Artist Exhibitions
February - May 2014: P60, Amstelveen (NL)
June 2014: SOMOS Art Haus Gallery, Berlin (DE)
August - November 2014: Kunstwerk aan de Winkel. Rotterdam (NL)
April - Juli 2015: De Kristal, Rotterdam (NL)
October - November 2015: Gallery Nomad, Berlin (DE) ...
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Numerous private, corporate, museum, gallery and government collections detailed information coming soon.
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