{"id":6385,"date":"2021-09-30T18:13:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/2021\/09\/30\/danielle-van-zadelhoff-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T16:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T16:27:54","slug":"danielle-van-zadelhoff-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/2021\/09\/30\/danielle-van-zadelhoff-witnesses\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Danielle van Zadelhoff – WITNESSES"},"content":{"rendered":"

WITNESSES di Danielle van Zadelhoff curated by Clelia Belgrado <\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening Night Thursday 7 October \u00a02021 from 6 pm\u00a0 The artist will attend the opening reception<\/strong><\/p>\n

8 October\u00a0 \u2013 23 December\u00a0 2021 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Location: Piazza Invrea 4r \u2013 16123 Genova, Italy<\/p>\n

On the occasion of START – The White Night of contemporary art in Genoa, Thursday 7 October 2021 at 6 pm, VisionQuesT 4rosso is pleased to start the new season with the exhibition WITNESSES by Danielle van Zadelhoff.<\/p>\n

For the first time in Italy, Danielle van Zadelelhoff presents the exhibition WITNESSES. A selection of portraits that, like all her other works, are identified\u00a0 by the rigour in the composition, the intensity of the light, the careful choice of every detail and the characteristic faces of her subjects. The use of the chiaroscuro technique, which draws inspiration from the pictorial culture of the seventeenth century, is wisely dosed, giving these works a contemporary trait and transforming them into symbolic representations and witnesses of the great themes of life, such as loneliness, vulnerability, the pure and raw emotions of everyday life.<\/p>\n

In this regard, the author states: “I always become fascinated by the light, which makes the models transcend above themselves and head to something universal”.<\/em><\/p>\n

Through her art work\u00a0 Danielle van Zadelelhoff, identifies an expedient by placing\u00a0 a certain distance between herself and the themes she\u00a0 addresses.\u00a0 Wrapped in darkness, faces and bodies emerge by reflecting the light at that very moment where the nocturnal animal that dwells in eveyone\u00a0 meets the diurnal one all differences, ambiguities, dreams, hopes, expectations, fears and wishes of each individual are revealed .Fascinated and inspired by the human psyche, the artist gives her works a palpable tension that leaves no one untouched.\u00a0 The tension of a gaze that leaves you wondering, that arouses the bewilderment of those who suddenly find themselves in front of people, circumstances and ideas that hide secrets and thoughts to be revealed.<\/p>\n

Fernando Franc\u00e9s \u2013 Director Centro d’Arte Contempor\u00e1neo de M\u00e1laga \u2013 CAC M\u00e1laga, writes about Danielle van Zadelhoff:\u00a0\u201c [\u2026]\u00a0 She has invented a kind of self-portrait using a model other than herself, in which\u00a0 she reflcts her complex, sensitive inner worl, her woman’s eye and her capacity for interpreattion. Her approach bears no resemblance to tht of Cindy Sherman, who transforms herself in the Duchampian manner of Rrose Selavy: she is more like Louise Bourgeois,\u00a0 who infuses each sculture with her preoccupations, concernes, ideas, feelings and desires. Danielle nan Zadelhoff is equally present in evry theme, every gaze , every skin and the meaning of each work. She does not portray people cleverly chosen to serve as models; rather, she gazes into a kind of magic mirror and bares her own soul in every photograph.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n