We are pleased to return to June Art Fair 2025 with a duo presentation by Daniele Formica (Italy, 1996) and Klaas Kloosterboer (The Netherlands, 1959). Together, Formica and Kloosterboer dialogue about the presence and absence of the human figure across painting, sculpture, and video. They explore the physicality of the body both in its movement and stillness, either straightforwardly depicting it or lyrically evoking it.

 

As part of Garden Cinema, a June Art Fair x Provence magazine collaboration, we present El Cristal es Mi Piel (2025) by Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz and Super Taboo (2016) by Su Hui-Yu.

 

 
  • Daniele Formica
    Portait of Daniele Formica

    Daniele Formica

    Daniele Formica (Perugia, 1996) lives and works in The Hague. He received the Fine Arts Bachelor Award at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK). Daniele Formica's work comes from the impulse to internalize and repurpose the universe to its people. Combining cross-disciplinary knowledge and everyday banality, he composes a repertoire of linguistic revelations, schizophrenic theories, and poetic claims. Daniele Formica's practice could be described as cartographic, as he superimposes layer upon layer of cognitive, emotional, and ontological entanglements onto vulnerable mapping exercises that ultimately form a complex artistic atlas. In his work, oftentimes drawing from classical literature, language enunciates thought while tracing coordinates in his entropic mind. Words, as if entries on a diary, emerge from his vital experience and create linguistic rhythms of repetition and alternation wherein to gather and position fragmented identities and knowledge.
  • Klaas Kloosterboer
    Portrait of Klaas Kloosterboer

    Klaas Kloosterboer

    Klaas Kloosterboer's (1959, Noord/Zuid Schermer) wide-ranging work consistently bridges the gap between abstraction and action. By questioning the elements of painting and its display, he confronts the viewer with the painting process. Rather than illustrating thoughts, his work is often an act in and of itself. As such, Kloosterboer’s work is always rooted in an action. He might determine a place on the canvas through cutting, sewing and throwing paint. Sometimes you see a suspended life-size, hand-sewn linen costume; a series of painted boxes; or even a video depicting the view through a car’s rear window as it pulls two giant balls down a road. Kloosterboer’s work is dynamic, idiosyncratic and lucid.

     

    The artistic actions of creating space and - in a counter-move - occupying space represent the fundamental driving forces behind Kloosterboer'spractice. The roots of his oeuvre stand in relation to the developments of avant-garde painting in the twentieth century, especially to its abstract and conceptual experiments. Kloosterboer is attracted to the purism of historical Modernism, but at the same time he remains skeptical with regard to purisms of all sorts. For him rules in art possess only a relative meaningfulness. In creating his works, he utilizes the materials and techniques of the painter. He works with various abstract-visual languages, with the figure-ground problem, the painterly gesture. He brings changes to these conventional categories, however, with the goal of ushering them into the here and now. Kloosterboer's work is ceaselessly concerned with contemporaneity, with the creation of a world of artifacts which, in its ritual elements, is in no way separate from the self-evident verities of the material world. Art ought to continue to lay claim to its own autonomous space for trial arrangements.

     

    Recent solo exhibitions include Sunscape, Galeria Structura, Sofia, 2024; Rephrase, Revise, Replace, MNAC, Bucharest, 2023; The Rules and the Game, Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo, 2022; Act between sliding doors, Hedge House, Kasteel Wijlre, Wijlre, 2021. His work is in the collections of Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Kröller Möller Museum, Otterlo, among others.