February 5 to December 4, 2022. Gallery Tuur, 77 Straelseweg 77 Venlo. On display are the ceramic sculptures by Arjen Markenstein and paintings by Yvonne Rooding.

A reprise of some of the works from the previous exhibition will be on display. All this is supplemented with the latest works of both artists.

Ceramic sculptures by Arjen Markenstein and the paintings by Yvonne Rooding.
September 4 - December 5, 2021

Cocooning, Something we have voluntarily or not learned lately. Withdrawn into our own little world. That is not strange for artists. In fact, they regularly need it. But apart from themselves, the artists wonder what effect this could have on society.

Yvonne Rooding - 9 frames 4 x 40 cm, Mood 1 t/m 9

Rooding has always been interested in the human psyche.
She captures feelings, emotions, experiences or sensations in an image. She uses the cosmos as a metaphor. In this exhibition she shows a number of small works of man in his own circle and what this brings about. Let us surprise you!

Markenstein tries to unravel the cocoon that has been spun around the Roman Catholic faith over the centuries. His quest consists of seeking answers to what Faith does to people and what people do with Faith.
His large rough monumental heads with their earthy colors are not to be missed in the gallery, each with its own deeper layer incorporated. All these unique emotions/feelings trapped in clay.

Theme: No one wants to be labeled and to be placed in a 'box' yet we can be all prejudice/ one-sided. Conscious or unconscious.

In this exhibition you will see the individual approach and imagery of both artists on themes such as faith, heaven and universe. Interesting about the exhibition are the different" tracks" that the artists walk.

Religion always leaves its mark on people behind both unnoticed and clearly visible. At the moment, the ceramic heads of Arjen Markenstein plays a prominent role in his work. For example, he is currently working on the project 365 days 365 ways, a collection of 365 heads that will emerge in the course of time. Everyone believes in his own way and has to decide every day whether he still believes in what he took for granted yesterday. Be surprised by the diversity of heads, all unique.

Yvonne Rooding her work is about life itself. The extent to which this takes place is irrelevant to her because she uses the universe as a metaphor and thus connects worlds. This way people can influence each other, but planets can also have the same effect. These connections are, as it were, energetic traces both visibly and invisibly depicted on her deep blue canvases.

Now the 4th time Galerie Tuur organizes the artproject 40 x 40. Simultaneously with the current exhibition of Arjen Markenstein with sculptural ceramics and Yvonne Rooding with paintings. 9 artists can participate, each work has the dimension 40 x 40 cm and with the theme Progress?.

The latest work of Yvonne Rooding (paintings) and Arjen Markenstein (ceramic sculptures) can be seen.

The two artists exhibit their work under the name Jump. You can see the exhibition individual approach and image language of both artists on themes such as religious experience, heaven and the universe.
Interesting to the exhibition are the contradictions in approach to these themes. Each work begins with a leap of faith. A whole process from nothing to something with all its uncertainties and challenges it involves.

At present, the ceramic heads of Arjen Markenstein play the lead role in his work. Not only in the well-known with oxides washed in clay but also stained with sinter-slips and combined with embroidery technique.
He does not work on model, therefore it is not portraits. Let yourself be surprised by the variety of heads, all unique pieces.

In the paintings of Yvonne Rooding, the infinite space of the universe plays an important role. Rooding imagines the universe from the human psyche, emotions and feelings. Recurring are the circular shapes that symbolize life itself. In the painting "Leap of Faith"  she literally represented a leap of faith. The paintings are acrylic on canvas.

Gallery Tuur takes part in
The month of the graphic ar October 2016

Arjen Markenstein
screen print and ceramic graphic art

Monique Romeijn
woodcut on ricepaper

Yvonne Rooding
screen print

Our guest exhibitors are:

Peter Heij,
Marie-José v.d. Heijden,
Hetty Hurkmans,
Van Lieshout VI,
Julia Mira,
Janneke Rosenbrand,
Maykel Schoonus,
Karen Vennik ,
Christel Weyts

Rooding works with many thin layers of paint and builds so the skin of her paintings on. the use of many colors over each other (largely blue) indicate the depth. They use this depth to the universe. As a shield around us. Also the skin of water inspires her.

The Gallery is open on every first weekend of the month on Saturdays and Sundays between 14.00 and 17.00 hours. 5 may from 11:00 – 18:00. And of course by appointment: 077-351 39 08/06-480 609

Arjen Markenstein - ceramic
Yvonne Rooding - paintings and objects

Exhibition 'Grenzeloos' and Artproject 40 x 40

4 april t/m 7 juni 2015

Kunstproject 40 x 40 - Grenzeloos

Udo Braehler
Marie-José v.d. Heijden
Annewil Jansen
Hans Lenders
Arjen Markenstein
Marian Mutsaers
Julia Rasimogli
Yvonne Rooding
Brita Seifert
Ien Sluyters
David Wasch

At first glance their work looks very contrasting, but at the same time, there is a great balance of opposites. A surprising combination of figuration and abstraction

Yvonne Rooding sees life as a cycle, a continual alternation by which opposite attracts and rejects each other . These cyclic elements she translates them into circular shapes, to point out events in your life.
A journey in mind, feeling and energy.

Arjen Markenstein is inspired by Catholicism from the past where he finds his own contemporary translation, stripped of the specific religious meaning.
He breaks through stereotypical thoughts, which he alternately, humorous, critical or cynical creates into a new sculpture.

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