Mondriaan

Mondriaan by Berend Strik is part of the Decipheringthe Artist's Mind series, documenting the studio of Piet Mondrian — theDutch pioneer of geometric abstraction whose late studio in New York became alegendary space in modern art history.

As Fons Welters describes: "In Deciphering the Artist's Mind,Judgments of Love we see a construction of the studio of Mondriaan. Strikedited the last photographs of the studio into a flat surface withoutperspective, straightening out the space that was furnished by Mondriaan andmaking a unity of the characteristic planes."

Photo’s are a gift by Leon Hanssen, who studied the Paris years of Mondrian.

https://leonhanssen.nl/projecten-projects/

This approach — flattening Mondrian's studio into a composition of planes —is itself a commentary on Mondrian's own formal language. Strik's textileinterventions add another layer, creating a dialogue between his stitched workand the artist he investigates.

The Mondrian studio work was included in Strik's exhibition at Fons Weltersaccompanying the publication of Deciphering the Artist's Mind (2020),designed by Irma Boom.

Private collection

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