Afgelopen week opende de bijzondere tentoonstelling How to Draw a Cactus, waarin onder andere het werk van de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Jon Sarkin centraal staat.

Speciaal voor deze tentoonstelling schreef kunsthistoricus Colin Rhodes een tekst over Sarkin:

Jon Sarkin was a remarkable contemporary American artist. Trained as a chiropractor, he was completely self-taught as an artist. He worked compulsively and obsessively, producing imagery from the depths of his unconscious, often using methods reminiscent of Surrealism, Neo-Dada and the Beat generation. His creative breakthrough followed a catastrophic medical episode in 1989, when a massive stroke permanently changed his life. Over more than three decades he produced a large body of visual and textual work that is both culturally profound and visually arresting. Rooted in the life and landscape of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, it is fitting that his work now finds its way to Rotterdam – another working port on the other side of the Atlantic.

De tentoonstelling How to Draw a Cactus is t/m 3 januari  te zien bij ons in de galerie.