Zonder Titel 1975

This untitled work was created by Anton Heyboer, and it feels like it was built up from a series of false starts. It's this kind of work, with its loose washes of color and tentative lines, that makes me want to grab a brush and join the conversation. I can imagine Heyboer, in his own world, wrestling with the figures that seem to emerge from the chaos. The painting has these blocky figures that feel symbolic, like the building blocks of a private language only he fully understands. The way he lays down the paint, thinly in some areas and letting the canvas breathe, then scratching lines on top, gives the piece a raw, almost urgent quality. It reminds me of Cy Twombly’s work, that sense of searching for form through a haze of marks. You can sense artists like Heyboer are trying to pin down something elusive, some feeling or idea that can’t quite be put into words.