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RiEN VÖRGERS

Lives and works in Enschede, The Netherlands
www.bkoverijssel.nl

Rien vörgers was bornin 1923 in Enschede, The Netherlands. He studied at though Picabia was the first modern painter using “transparency”, he did
the local Academy of Art before wwII, when it existed under another name. not get rid of lines and contours like Rien does.
After having finished his art studies, using the then customary drawing
techniques, Rien began his career with theatre stage decoration. In the Dutch government’s Parliament building “Het Binnenhof” in The
Hague, a seven months solo exhibition was organized in 2002/2003 especially
This scene-painting aroused a life long interest in stage-management, for 24 of Rien’s paintings. At that time when the vice Prime Minister and
which he only gave up in the early 1970’s. Between 1945-49, he traveled Secretary of the Treasury were in office, gerrit zalm, opened his show. In
through Southeast Asia with his own Netherlands Indonesian welfare Artist 2005 the Lorenzo il Magnifico Career Award Medal of the City of Florence,
theatre. Back in The Netherlands he took up further activities as a director Italy was granted to Rien at the 5th Biennial of International Contemporary
of plays and musicals under his artistic name Nick wanders. It was only in Art, where he showed a set of five acrylic paintings on canvas called “The
the early 1980s, that he realized full-time painting. It was then that he first Seasons” and “House”. At that occasion Christo also received the same
created his own renovating “mosaic” style, which goes one step further in honour of his participation in this event held in the Fortezza di Basso
than Mondriaan’s work half a century earlier. between 3 and 11 December 2005.
In 2009 Rien was awarded a “Diploma of Excellence (Honorable Award)” by
His meditative way of creating resembles that of De kooning’s, who also the London gallery Art Addiction. Rien has had 14 solo shows and took part
dared to deviate from the then current fashion in abstract painting. And in over fifteen international exhibits worldwide.
 sAWINg pARTy, 1991 gOUACHE 20.5X29 IN. /52X74 CM. (A HITCH ALwAYS OCCURS)
 WEEkDAy, 1989 gOUACHE 11.5X7.5 IN. /30X20 CM. (STUDY FOR 7 wEEkDAYS)

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