From March 13 to June 2, 2019, Museum Jan van der Togt will present a retrospective exhibition of the painter Willem van Veldhuizen (1954).

Forty years ago, Willem van Veldhuizen became fascinated by the almost empty spaces he encountered in museums. The harmony, the rooms where nothing is superfluous, the focus on art: they still occupy his mind. In his paintings of these spaces, you will find no people, but silence and an overwhelming personal vision of spatiality. With its light effects, reflections, and glimpses of the outside world, Van Veldhuizen's work appears realistic. Yet it is not a literal representation of reality. It is "almost unreal."

The exhibition also includes surprising art and design objects by Iris van Herpen, Scholten & Baijings, Rive Roshan, Olivier van Herpt, and Judith Roux. Like Van Veldhuizen, they play with light, color, and space, as well as with different dimensions. In the museum spaces, they fulfill the role that artworks play in Van Veldhuizen's paintings. A multidisciplinary ensemble of beauty and tranquility.

Virtual reality

Unique is the opportunity to explore a painting by Van Veldhuizen from the inside with virtual reality glasses. You put on the glasses, step into the painting, and walk around in a different reality, as Willem van Veldhuizen himself explains. A special educational tool for young and old.

Sponsor

The exhibition was made possible in part by Wealth Management Partners and Organism Studios. Activities related to Almost Unreal - Willem van Veldhuizen Saturday, May 25: Virtual Reality workshops In collaboration with 24H Amstelveen Start: 1:30 p.m. Start: 3:00 p.m. Duration: approx. 45 min. Organism Studios has developed a VR experience for the current exhibition Almost Unreal - Willem van Veldhuizen. Wearing VR glasses, you step into a painting by Van Veldhuizen and imagine yourself in another reality. The developers of this unique educational tool take workshop participants on an interactive VR experience. Visitors can then use virtual building blocks to create structures and add various interactions. The rest of the audience can follow everything that is visible on their glasses on the screen. Registration: info@jvdtogt.nl