Uitje naar het Zuiderpark, Den Haag Possibly 1942 - 1945

This is an album page with photographs of an outing to Zuiderpark, Den Haag, made with photography, but with an uncredited hand. You know, the kind of thing you find in an antique store. What strikes me here is the arrangement. It is neither quite art nor really documentary. It’s a bit like the way we approach our paintings, groping around and trying to work out how a set of ideas may relate to one another. Each image is carefully placed on the page. The texture of the album page itself, a sort of grey, is very beautiful. The arrangement of photographs invites us to look at the page as a composition in its own right, an assemblage. This changes our viewing experience and expands our appreciation of the piece. For me, this work speaks of the ongoing conversation between formalism and the documentary style, the way we are always looking for patterns and meanings in the chaos. Much like the work of Gerhard Richter, this album makes us aware of art as an ongoing conversation, open to various viewpoints and interpretations.