Haagse Kunstenaars

Drawing Mass(05-25), 2025, 31x36x47cm, recycled paper 1000 drawings are blended, pressed into a rectangular mold and slowly dried into a mass.

I am shaping a labyrinth trying to define you, 2023, 60 x 55cm, gouache and pencil on torn paper, rabbit glue and gesso on black cotton fabric

Technique: oil and gesso on linen canvas prepared with rabbit glue Size: 65 x 50 x 2 cm Authenticity: Work signed by the artist Edition: Unique work

Daniele Formica’s Boys by the Pool series possesses a bucolic impression. The boys play around, swimming, dashing, floating, splashing. Despite their playfulness, their young male bodies become vulnerable to the most banal and conditioning element: water. Their limbs unfold in flamboyant gestures that aim to stay afloat whilst becoming an object of desire to the spectator/voyeur. Photo by Jeroen de Smalen

Boys by the pool, 2021, exhibition view, courtesy Ellen De Bruijne PROJECTS , photographer: Jeroen Desmalen

Fabrizio de Andre sings in ‘Nella mia ora di liberta’ (In my freedom hour) that sometimes violence is more human than law. It seems to confute Kant < the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me>>, but it actually proposes that failing the moral law must also be accepted as part of being human. This is the case of the wolf. I fantasize about encounters between undefended humans and wolves. I wonder how I would imagine a wolf after an encounter in the dangers of the night, as if little red riding hood was asked to make some drawings. Fear is part of life; found outside the borders of empire."