Harm Mouw:

March 14 – July 31, 2020 at Café Bern

 

From March 14 until July 31, 2020 Harm Mouw (1958) shows a selection of his work at Café Bern. Harm is truly a local: his studio is located just across Nieuwmarkt, at Koestraat.

Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.

Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.

Prussia Cove, Cornwall

Harm Mouw
2017

Oil on canvas
65 x 50 cm

Exhibited at Café Bern
from March 14 until July 31, 2020

Maria Langhendries Mouw

Harm Mouw
1986

Oil on canvas
30 x 35 cm

Exhibited at Café Bern
from March 14 until July 31, 2020

Sardines on a plate

Harm Mouw
2017

Oil on wooden panel
20 x 13 cm

Exhibited at Café Bern
from March 14 until July 31, 2020

Karl Heinz Schneeberger

Harm Mouw
2014

Sennelier pastel on paper
40 x 50 cm

Exhibited at Café Bern
from March 14 until July 31, 2020

Sprat on a plate

Harm Mouw
2017

Oil on wooden panel
19 x 15 cm

Exhibited at Café Bern
from March 14 until July 31, 2020

Harm Mouw

Rotterdam Hillegersberg, 1958

Harm Mouw studied graphics, typography, scenography and painting at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. His teachers included Rik van Bentum, Gerard Unger, William Lindhout, Wijnand Wansink and Herman Gordijn. Subsequently he could work in residency at the Koninklijke Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, tutored by Paul Hugo ten Hoopen, Paul Husner and Jacob Kuijper. In 1986 he was awarded the Willem Uriot Prize.

In 2016 Sipke Huismans, former professor at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunst, wrote about his work: “Harm Mouw introduces us to his astonishment and respect for the seemingly ordinary.

His glance at the world is like that of an uncaptured, inquisitive child and with each work he makes, he discovers new opportunities to shape that focused attention, which is essentially love. He masters the craft but what comes out of his hands is never based on skill alone.

His work is immediately accessible and secretive at the same time, easy to read and an enigma. This means that you can always keep looking at it and see it again and again, that it will never be boring, no matter how unadorned and modest it is.”

More info: www.harmmouw.nl/