A Faithful Eye

A Faithful Eye: Modern and Contemporary Art from The Netherlands, The ABN AMRO Collection

October 5, 2007 - January 6, 2008

A Faithful Eye: Modern and Contemporary Art from The Netherlands, The ABN AMRO Collection includes thirty-five paintings, many of monumental scale, from the art collection of ABN AMRO based in Amsterdam. The exhibition explores important themes and contradictory issues in modern and contemporary Dutch art, from subjects that recall the Dutch painting traditions of portraiture and landscape to works of pure abstraction, both rational and expressive.

Twenty-seven artists are represented from Karel Appel (1921-2006), a leading member of the CoBRA avant-garde movement of the late 1940s and early 1950s to Thomas Raat (b. 1979), the youngest artist in the exhibition, who has twice won the Royal Dutch Prize for Painting.

Expressive portraits and figure paintings by Marlene Dumas (b. 1953) and the conceptual photographic compositions of Jan Dibbets (b. 1941) have gained international attention in the past twenty years. Well established in The Netherlands and Europe and somewhat new to U.S. audiences are works by Ger van Elk (b. 1941), René Daniëls (b. 1939), and Toon Verhoef (b. 1946) who served as artist-in- residence at Dartmouth College in 2004 and University of Washington in 2006. The exhibition also includes artists never before shown in the United States.

A Faithful Eye: Modern and Contemporary Art from
The Netherlands, The ABN AMRO Collection is sponsored by:

ABN AMRO
Brooks Family - Holland, MI
Best Packaging
Netherlands Consulate - West Michigan