Gallery Baton is delighted to announce Koen Van Den Broek's second solo exhibition 'Zylon.' Since the artist's trade mark 'Street Motived Painting' in his first solo exhibition of Asia held at Gallery Baton in 2011, new exhibition with more abstract works will provide a chance to experience European contemporary painting.

Studying architecture in college, the artist explores a geometric space created on functional purpose, such as road or traffic structure. Photographs taken by the artist during travel are source of his work and on a process to transform them into painting, there are abstraction added and dissolution of image and consecutive reaction of emphasis occurring. Thus, the empty space and shadows are emphasized, unlike details of an object are skipped and lines and sides are highlighted in primary color or discolored so that it results the semiabstract painting.

His new work with abstraction and stressed his subjective opinion for borrowed image and space involves more abstract and ideal characteristics. Repeated black mass inferred shadow, lines and sides in a high chroma, and split colored pieces reveal limited hint to audiences who are familiar with his previous works.

Unlike a start point of existing abstract painting, unrealistic experience or subjective analysis on memory, the artist's work is based on artificial structure and space so that it can be restored as the original image. Yet, when not sharing very personal experiences for time and space he has faced with, the original image can be referred through intended empty space and randomly arranged color plane and direction.

The artist's work, which is free from any political agreement or social message, gives unexpected silence from large-scale canvas and a mix of vivid colors, and such visual experience and silence derived from a combination of artificial colors lead us to consideration for an ultimate directing point of fine art.

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© Koen Van Den Broek
courtesy of the artist and Gallery Baton