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REINOUD OUDSHOORN b. 1953, Netherlands

Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art

Untitled (K-17) 2mm black steel, 7 parts 82.5 x 186.5 x 105 cm 2017 Edition of 3 € 18.000,00 incl. VAT

Originally trained as a painter, Reinoud Oudshoorn was dissatisfied with the two-dimensional limitations of the medium, so he decided to venture into the third dimension.

Designing and manufacturing every sculpture entirely himself, Oudshoorn works in a variety of materials that he keeps reemploying.

His steel and glass sculptures give the impression of minute, wall mounted stages and rarely go beyond a manageable, even portable size.

The wood sculptures are made from layered sheets and are typically finished with a curved, lavishly smooth surface that renders them tactile.

The larger sculptures are usually made from steel only, are floor based and communicate with the architectural features that surround them.

Despite being solid, sometimes heavy objects, many works often appear rather light, almost floating.

Untitled (C-19) Frosted glass and iron 63 x 85 x 10 cm 2019 â‚Ź 10.000,00 incl. VAT

Untitled (P-16) Frosted glass and iron 64 x 74 x 25 cm 2016 â‚Ź 9.000,00 incl. VAT

Untitled (I-19) Frosted glass and steel 64 x 61 x 22 cm 2019 â‚Ź 9.000,00 incl. VAT

Issues of space and spatial illusion defines Oudshoorn’s sculptures at the core. Space that becomes the concrete reality of a three-dimensional object, but also spaces that lie in between the shapes and materials visible; areas that cannot be captured and confined or which remain hidden or obscured.

Oudshoorn’s sculptures, assembled in one exhibition, transform each installation into a spectacular landscape of illusionary spaces offering a never-ending plurality of perspectives.

Untitled (H-15) Wood 93 x 80 x 26 cm 2015 Private Collection, Taiwan

Untitled (A-06) Wood 118 x 99 x 33 cm 2006 Private Collection, London

Untitled (K-18) Wood 90 x 75 x 36 cm 2010 Available from July 2021

Drawing Ink and pencil on paper 42 x 30 cm 2008

Untitled (L-16) Iron 128 x 210 x 84 cm 2016 € 22.000,00 incl. VAT

Drawing Ink and pencil on paper 30 x 42 cm 2015

Oudshoorn develops his sculptures through precise technical drawings that include all calculations of the desired vanishing point for each object.

Oudshoorn systematically applies the same vanishing point of 1,65 meters to all of his sculptures.The vanishing point is probably the most idiosyncratic ingredient in the sculptor’s oeuvre.

Historically, the vanishing point alludes to the invisible world that lies behind the point where all lines converge. In Oudshoorn’s sculptures it suggests an endlessness in the space that surrounds us, an infinity of mind and sphere.

Drawing Ink and pencil on paper 42 x 30cm 2006

Untitled (A-16) Frosted glass and steel 64 x 61 x 22 cm 2016 â‚Ź 9.000,00 incl. VAT

Untitled (G-18) Frosted glass and steel 64 x 74 x 25 cm 2018 â‚Ź 10.000,00 incl. VAT

Installation view, Fragmented Truth exhibition (2020) at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art

Untitled (J-19) Frosted glass and steel 64 x 59 x 19 cm 2019 â‚Ź 9.000,00 incl. VAT

Often you observe gallery or fair visitors bend below one of Oudshoorn’s sculptures, the cheek against the wall, trying to figure out the structure behind the surface, which is often refreshingly simple. The surprised examiner then usually starts to move around and inspect the sculptures from all possible view-points.

The fascination then merges with a kind of astonishment.

Untitled (C-20) Frosted glass and steel 73 x 62 x 13 cm 2020 â‚Ź 10.000,00 incl. VAT

Untitled (F03) Steel (13 parts) 72 x 267 x 21.5 cm 2003 € 24.000,00 incl. VAT

Untitled (G-19) Black steel 56 x 56 x 16.5 cm 2019 € 8.000,00 incl. VAT

Untitled (B-20) Steel (9 parts) 83 x 166 x 82.5 cm 2020 € 18.000,00 incl. VAT

From Greek temples and the great frescoes of the Renaissance to Op Art and interactive performance, certain long-standing topics in art history have always been around: the fascination with the illusion of perception, the transformation of an art work through the shifting of light and shade, and the changing impact of a piece of art by moving through space.

Oudshoorn’s sculptures take these timeless themes into the 21st century and infuses them with an ephemeral and metaphysical quality.

Untitled (A-19) Frosted glass and steel 66 x 85 x 15 cm 2019 Private Collection, Berlin

Untitled (B-18) Frosted glass and steel 62 x 62 x 7.5 cm 2018 â‚Ź 8.000,00 incl. VAT

Untitled (E-16) Frosted glass and steel 60 x 73 x 25 cm 2016 â‚Ź 10.000,00 incl. VAT

Untitled (N-16) Frosted glass and steel 64 x 80 x 27 cm 2016 Private Collection, Switzerland

Oudshoorn’s inspirations originate from impressions of the world the artist experiences. This can be imagery of organic textures or formations drawn from nature as well as architectural forms or details. An important phenomenon is the mist and its muffled views and sounds characteristic of seasonal atmospheres in his homeland.

Oudshoorn’s sculptures take shape by staring at a white surface, a piece of paper, an empty wall or into dense fog. From a cross fertilization of the white emptiness and the artist’s imagination and experience, shapes of potential sculptures emerge, such as clouds, arches, windows or water surfaces.

Untitled (D-17) Frosted glass and steel 85 x 71 x 12.5 cm 2017 â‚Ź 10.000,00 incl. VAT

Untitled (F-18) Frosted glass and steel 64 x 74 x 25 cm 2018 Private Collection, Denmark

Oudshoorn’s inspiration from nature and its bridging to concepts of infinity refer to familiar artistic styles such as the reduced, spiritually charged compositions of the De Stijl movement, or the atmospheric light rendering of 17th century Dutch landscape painting.

The engagement with perception and dissolution of form relates Oudshoorn’s ideas also to contemporary artistic experiments like the condensation cubes of Hans Haacke from the early 60s, or Anthony Gormley’s interactive chamber ‘Blind Light’.

Untitled (L-20) Frosted glass & steel 64 x 61 x 22 2020 â‚Ź 9.000,00 incl. VAT

Untitled (N-20) Frosted glass & steel 60 x 61 2x 2 cm 2020 € 9.000,00 incl. VAT

Untitled (D-09) Iron (6 elements) 83 x 233 x 83 cm 2009 Collection Schroth, Soest, Germany

When Oudshoorn’s works leave the studio and are installed in a space, they have only partly fulfilled their purpose. What makes the sculptures so unique is that they only unfold their true qualities once they explore and stimulate another space that goes far beyond the space they inhabit: our imagination.

Untitled (D-07) Steel 56 x 3330 x 56 cm 2007 Collection Schroth, Soest, Germany

The artist’s studio

The artist’s studio

REINOUD OUDSHOORN

Born in 1953, Ommen, Netherlands Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL, since 1975 Education

1971-75 1972-73 1973-75 1986-present

AKI Art Academy, Enschede Ibiza, Spain Ateliers 63 Haarlem Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020 2019 2017 2017 2015 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2005 2003 2000 1998 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1988 1987 1985 1983 1979 1978

Fragmented Truth (with Alice Quaresma), Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London Vanishing Point, Bluerider ART, Taipei Dimensions of three, Allouche Gallery, New York Recent Sculptures, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London Recente Sculpturen, Gallery Ramarkers, The Hague Recent Sculptures, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London Dimensions, Gallery Skape Seoul Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Poetic reality in space, Gallery Skape, Seoul Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Art Amsterdam, Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Path Gallery, Aalst Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Path Gallery, Aalst Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Waalkens Gallery, Finsterwolde Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Museum Fodor, Amsterdam Waalkens Gallery, Finsterwolde

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 2020 2019 2018 2018 2017 2016 2016

For the Love of Art Part 1 and 2, Gallery Remakers, The Haugue Gallery Remakers at Art Rotterdam Uit het atelier, Gallery Ramakers, The Hague Bluerider ART, Taipei Allouche Gallery on the Volta NY 2018 Art-fair, New York, USA 3D Lettering on Buildings, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich Bluerider ART, Renaissance Harbour View Hotel, Hong Kong Machinerie, Proviciehuis, Haarlem Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day, Ramakers Gallery, The Hague Grand opening new space, Allouche Gallery, New York

2016 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2008 2007 2006 2001 1997 1996 1994 1993 1992 1990 1989 1988 1984 1981 1979 1976 1975 1974

Construction, Museum Sammlung Schrott, Soest Licht en transparantie, Thomas Elshuis en Reinoud Oudshoorn, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam A Call for Drawings, BAK, Utrecht Short-hand-made, Grindel 117, Hamburg Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing Capricccio, JCA DE KOK centrum for contemporary art Reinoud Oudshoorn and Jérôme Touron, Ramakers Gallery, The Hauge Patrick Heide Gallery on the Miami Pulse, Miami Gallery Skape on the Gallery Seoul Art Fair Patrick Heide Gallery on the Miami Pulse, Miami Skape Gallery, Seoul Patrick Heide Gallery on the Miami Pulse, Miami Space A 2010, Gallery Space, Seoul Ten Feet De Vishal, Haarlem De keuze van Lucassen Ramakers Gallery, The Hague Façade Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam A Public Space 2001 Odyssey Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam Nooit zag ik Awater zo nabij Oude Kerkje, Kortenhoef One Line Drawing Ubu Gallery, New York The Dutch Connection Marshall Art Gallery, Memphis Weatherview Norwich Gallery, Norwich The Collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam De keuze van Betty van Garrel Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Atelier Mémoire, Paris 20 Years Wetering Gallery Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam Kai, Sagaert et Oudshoorn Atelier Mémoire, Paris Le Génie de la Bastille Paris, Paris Gemeente Kunstaankopen 1991 Museum Fodor, Amsterdam Liberations Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam Kunstlijn Sculpture Route Zwolle-Emmen AMRO Bank Collection, A Choice Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Spiel der Uberraschungen der Europaïschen Kunst des 20 Jahrhundert Bochholt De Kampanje, Den Helder Felison op Beeckestijn, with Marlene Dumas, Velzen Zuid Van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam 11 Painters Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Markt 17, Enschede Rijksmuseum Twente, Enschede

Collections

Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, The Netherlands Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands ABN AMRO Art Collection, The Netherlands The Chadha Art Collection Eleanore De Sole Collection Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Germany