Abstracte compositie 1994

This abstract composition was made by Harrie Gerritz. Looking at the soft yellows and pale creams layered with raw marks, I get the sense that this picture came into being slowly, with each shape, line, and color shifting until something emerged that felt like a resolution, a harmony found in the act of arrangement. I can imagine Gerritz thinking about surface, texture, and the very physicality of the medium. There’s a kind of vulnerability in the visible marks, which feel like a form of embodied expression, and I think the artist is asking, "How can I embrace ambiguity and uncertainty?" This question is left open for us too. The black line that cuts through the yellow feels particularly loaded, doesn’t it? It communicates a sense of feeling, intention, and meaning, a kind of visual poetry that only painting can achieve. Abstract art is an ongoing conversation, and I find myself imagining Gerritz in dialogue with other painters, across time, each inspiring the other’s creativity.