Joachim van der Vlugt

The pictorial style of Joachim van der Vlugt, a Dutch painter who lives in Luxembourg, is decidedly contemporary, although inspired by the Dutch classical masters, with a personal reinterpretation of the two traditional registers of landscape and portrait. At "ARTOXIC" exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. ART GALLERY, Joachim presents "The aftermath", an oil on canvas. The artwork is characterized by very layered and well shaded backgrounds in shades of blue that make up a gradual transition from the white of the upper part to the midnight blue of the lower one of the canvas. To space out this suffused composition, Joachim places well-defined geometric figures which, while giving a strong contrast, harmonize well with the background landscape, creating a beautiful balance. In fact, Joachim van der Vlugt's technique provides for a constant stratification of the paint, which allows him to work with light, its nuances and its intensity, integrating geometric shapes that refine the composition of his paintings until he reaches, as he likes to define it, "an orchestrated chaos". This cultured painting with multiple references has a spiritual and almost esoteric dimension: in fact, the artist loves to introduce hidden and almost invisible images into the underlying layers of his paintings. It is therefore a work that is discovered gradually, in front of which the viewer's gaze is constantly renewed.

Art Curator Matilde Della Pina