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Hans van Hoek, Kimono met zwaan en vlinder, 2017-18

Hans van Hoek Dutch, b. 1947

Kimono met zwaan en vlinder, 2017-18
Oil on canvas with carved and painted frame
234 x 198.5 cm
Signed and dated on the reverse
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This painting with rigidly hanging kimono and the swan and butterfly painted therein, refers to transition in the cycle of life. The butterfly after all starts its life as a...
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This painting with rigidly hanging kimono and the swan and butterfly painted therein, refers to transition in the cycle of life. The butterfly after all starts its life as a caterpillar and the swan is not given its white plumage until it reaches adulthood, also a reference to life-giving water.


Dit schilderij met streng opgehangen kimono en de erin geschilderde zwaan en vlinder, verwijst naar transitie in de levenscyclus. Immers de vlinder begint zijn leven als rups en de zwaan krijgt pas bij volwassenheid zijn witte verentooi, tevens een verwijzing naar het leven gevende water.

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Provenance

The artist

Exhibitions

2018, Hans van Hoek, All is One. six kimono paintings, BorzoGallery, Amsterdam (cat.)
2019, Hans van Hoek. Kimono's, Het Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch (21 September 2019 - 19 January 2020)

Literature

Rosmalen, Paul, Hans van Hoek, All is One. six kimono paintings, exh.cat. Amsterdam (BorzoGallery) 2018, pp. 14-15 (ill.)
Delbaere, Etienne, Hans van Hoek and Rick Vercauteren, Hans van Hoek - 12 Kimono's, Deurne (Hans van Hoek) 2022, pp. 18, 20
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