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Hannah van Bart
  Terugkeer van de Magier / Return of the Magician, 2001, grafiet, 140 x 100 cm
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Hannah van Bart, Untouchables
23 February 2002 - 23 April 2002

The first presentation in the print room's new exhibition area is a display of work by Hannah van Bart (1963). Some forty drawings - and four paintings - give an impression of her work over the last five years (1997-2001). The works vary in size from small to almost human-size. All are drawn using a graphite stick and most are monochrome; colour is used in only a few (and then sparingly). Van Bart's recent work frequently features people and animals: not just human figures of both sexes but also bears, wolves and a horse. It generally shows these figures isolated in space, with no indication of their surroundings. Their position often suggests movement, action or activity: they run, dance, stride out, thumb a lift or prance across the page. But something else is also 'happening' in these pictures. For, despite their immediate recognisability, the figures populating Van Bart's drawings are in some way weird and wonderful.

 
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