Exhibition SHIFTING TIMES

MARIETTE VAN ERP . MARTIN SCHUSTER .
2 FEBRUARY –  9 MARCH 2025

Galerie Nasty Alice is pleased to announce Shifting Times, a duo exhibition by Mariëtte van Erp and Martin Schuster.

You are very welcome at the opening on Sunday 2 February 3 – 5 pm.

Martin Schuster is inspired by memories and experiences from his childhood and youth. His paintings show parties, journeys and an escape from reality. Often, they are situated in a post-apocalyptic world, picturing the future, which turns out to be the present, or the other way around. A theme that appears consistently in his paintings is simultaneity: infinite pleasure, immeasurable possibilities of reason and intelligence, greed and senseless thrill coexist. An inner lightness that can be found in almost all his paintings contradicts thinking about a society whose capitalist structure is characterized by unfair hierarchies, consumption, strive for profit and growth. Schuster wonder how these symptoms affect our well-being, feelings and desires.

VIEW ARTIST’S PAGE Mariëtte van Erp paints and draws her surroundings, the landscape of Brabant, with a lot of energy and feeling. Mariëtte prefers to work in the middle of this landscape, which can consist of meadows, views or, for example, a small bridge above a river. Van Erp observes and paints or draws what occurs. According to Mariëtte van Erp, a landscape is always in motion and continuously changing. Van Erp’s work partly consists of figurative elements combined with expressive lines and shapes. It is an ode to her environment and a desire to be part of that environment. VIEW ARTIST’S PAGE

The gallery is closed on 1 and 2 March 2025.