As a ‘born to be’ an abstract expressionist, Fortgens creates
in his paintings a gesture that alreeds ancloses composition,
movement, emotion and corporeity. He does not claim
complicated games of form and colour looking
for balance of oposite forces. For Fortgens, everything can
be espressed in this only and dynamica element that appears
to flow on a background of colour and texture. He seems to
intergrate hemzelf into the artwork thought the movement of
hisbody-arm-paintbrush on a canvas. Body ( action ) and
mind ( creation ) meet together in this element, as well as
gesture and decision, passion and concept.
To the spectator, it’s been left the task of covering the drawn
up trajectory, and thatof feeling the pleasure of a soft fall or
the dizziness of a gap over the emptiness, with all the emotions
that emerge between one and another sensation.
All without detriment of the interest that causes a surrounding
scene full of plasticity.
Born in 1960 in Utrecht, the Nederlands, Robbert Fortgens
works in IJmuiden, near Amsterdam where he lives. Since his
young age he is devoted to his painting, finishing his school
degrees in Art. Holland, Belgium, France or Spain are
Countries where he works and where his work is shown regulary.
Isabel Bilbao
Mayo 2007
in his paintings a gesture that alreeds ancloses composition,
movement, emotion and corporeity. He does not claim
complicated games of form and colour looking
for balance of oposite forces. For Fortgens, everything can
be espressed in this only and dynamica element that appears
to flow on a background of colour and texture. He seems to
intergrate hemzelf into the artwork thought the movement of
hisbody-arm-paintbrush on a canvas. Body ( action ) and
mind ( creation ) meet together in this element, as well as
gesture and decision, passion and concept.
To the spectator, it’s been left the task of covering the drawn
up trajectory, and thatof feeling the pleasure of a soft fall or
the dizziness of a gap over the emptiness, with all the emotions
that emerge between one and another sensation.
All without detriment of the interest that causes a surrounding
scene full of plasticity.
Born in 1960 in Utrecht, the Nederlands, Robbert Fortgens
works in IJmuiden, near Amsterdam where he lives. Since his
young age he is devoted to his painting, finishing his school
degrees in Art. Holland, Belgium, France or Spain are
Countries where he works and where his work is shown regulary.
Isabel Bilbao
Mayo 2007