Our artist Ronald Schmets has been working on his latest series:Reclining nudes. In our show: The perception of beauty, that opens on the 1  June we will show 5 of his  new works!

Ronald Schmets uses ancient symbols and combine that with the modern woman and techniques, that makes his works a beautiful assembly of modern and antiques. The past contemporary.

Titian’s Venus of Urbino was the inspiration for the first reclining nude Ronald Schmets made .His Venus is not an unattainable goddess, unaware of our presence. Schmets photographs her awake a little distant , some how unaware of he viewer but with a sensual allure in her eyes. She is depicted in a room within an opulent palace. In the background we see her estate.  Who is she, is she a goddess? A princess? We don’t know, but do we need to know.

You’re invited!

Saturday 1 June at 16.00 for the exhibition: The perception of beauty at Sophie Maree Gallery!
With works from, Ad van Son, Isabelle, Irene van Vliet, Stefan Milev and Ronald Schmets

We are proud to announce the exhibition at the Zwolls stedelijk museum with work from Yang Yongliang -The peach Blossom Colony ‘. Be sure to visit this amazing exhibition.

The exhibition will be open from 3 June until the end of October

If painting be the food of sorrow Let me go till I’m fill’d with sweet tristesse For then my painter’s soul shall be moved To that one solacing sorrowfulness

Thierry De Cordier

Isabelle plays with texture and color, transforming and mixing them to reconstitute a rich and gorgeous faux nature in agreement with a personal pertinence about art and life. Inland photography and disordered landscapes…

At the Kunstrai in Amsterdam her work will be for the first time on display.

Photographer Andre Lichtenberg wins with his series Licht,
next month a full interview in ~Rooms magazine with the artist Andre Lichtenberg.

New at Sophie Maree Gallery, the beautiful crafted Wall Tapestries; Woven Wonders by Irene van Vliet

Nature is the main source of inspiration.
I love the versatile decorative elements and beautiful color combinations that occur in trees and flowers.The Woven Wonders line is distinguished by unique image processing in textiles she applies to wall hangings, room dividers,  fabric panels and scarves.  Design and tactility come together in a unique shape. Tapestries are like paintings of yarns and have the added value of the acoustic improvement in interiors. The ’Woven Wonders’ are woven with a jacquard technique, using a single yarn (uni cloth) or multiple yarns in a double cloth. The materials from which can be chosen are cotton, viscose or mohair yarns.

Dear Art friends and Photography lovers,

During Easter we will be closed, we are happy to see you today or next week!

Happy Easter

With much pleasure we  present our newest talent: Stefan Milev. An upcoming talent in photography!

Fascinated by the classic masters of photography Stefan Milev gets his inspiration from the early 19th century, the beginning years of fine art photography.
Most of the time he works with analog material, such as 4 x 5 inch polaroids, what gives his work the dreamy and authentic feel to his stunning portraits.
He creates images that seem to come out of the past, but they are made in these modern times. With his style and method he stands between two different areas.
As a result, Milev’s picturesque meaning of photographs uncover a unique and multiplex sense for the Zeitgeist in photography.

In the beginning of June, we will have his work on display in the gallery during our up coming exhibition.

We are proud to present the exhibition: Theater of light with the lumineus works of Lightmark. The exhibition will run till the 31ste of March 2013.

At dusk, when other landscape photographers stow away their equipment, we get ready to work.Whether its in the windswept patagonian desert or in the icy northern part of Norway:wherever we travel we explore landscapes that reveal a magic beauty in the dark. A bit of moonlight, a faint glow of northern lights, some modified torches or a carefully placed fire: that is all it takes to uncover what is hidden in the dark. And when the sun comes up the next morning, no trace remains to show that we have ever been there.

Mark Mawsons amazing Aqueous series was projected on Buckingham Palace this summer during a concert of Paul McCartney’s “Magical Mystery Tour’

‘Aqueous Fluoreau’ series captures breathtaking cloud formations that resemble catastrophic explosions to unusual aquatic life.

The vibrant photographs, which were created using only paint and water, have been compared to falling down a rabbit hole and finding yourself in some other worldly place.

“Aqueous Floureau is a series of creative images that inspire emotional reactions in everyone,” Mawson told The Huffington Post. “I love the way each person sees something different in each shot, a bit like seeing pictures in the clouds in the sky.”This  series continues a process Mawson began in his first, ‘Aqueous,’ which took him six years to complete.

Mawson’s creation was first inspired by the simple act of watching milk being poured into the numerous cups of coffee he drinks daily.

The latest series made by Yang YongLiang. Beautiful and stunning.

The ancient literati were inspired by the beauty of the bright reflection of the moon lying on the water, conceiving of it as a flat graphic image they wrote poetry and mythological tales. Western civilization shattered this illusion and proved the moon to be simply a grey ball….yet to me it seems much more romantic than that.

“Moonlight” describes the city’s puzzling urban nightscape.  When the city lights up, its contours seem hardly discernible.  Amidst the twinkling light, the moon waxes and wanes. The  night view  of  the  city  becomes  eternal  …

During the Raw China Expo from 6 feb until 9 march this exhibition will be shown at Pakhuis Santos, Rotterdam

Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke travel around the world, turning night into day.

A bit of moonlight, a faint glow of northern lights, some modified torches or a carefully placed fire: that is all it takes to uncover what is hidden in the dark.

Together with our artist Kevin Best, we produced 120 custom made artworks for the  Conservatorium Hotel in Amsterdam.

This high-end five star luxury hotel had specific ideas about the presentation of art in their rooms, in style and production. The combination of a classical subject in a modern photography style, was the solution to make this assignment successfully!

Bewaarden we onze dierbare herinneringen voorheen nog zorgvuldig in een fotoalbum, tegenwoordig delen we ze met de wereld via social networks. Met de tentoonstelling: My private view, geeft Sophie Maree Gallery een artistieke invulling aan deze extravagante exposure.

Van onschuldige geheimpjes tot ongegeneerde bekentenissen, of van dagelijkse gewoonten tot verborgen angsten. Het massaal delen van vaak openhartige en intieme fotografie is de ultieme uiting van de egocultuur: jijzelf als het middelpunt van het universum. Deze vorm van documentatie is de perfecte smeltkroes van performance en fotografie waarin de kunstenaar zichzelf grenzeloos blootgeeft.

Once again Peter Lippmann and Christian Louboutin created a wonderful dreamworld for the Louboutins campaign 2013.

This time we are set in Paris the city of fashion and romance.read the article

Featuring Lisa Carletta and Christian Tagliavini
(click on the image to see the publication)

Watch this amazing video from Yang Yongliang, at Thecreatorsproject.com

We are proud to announce this amazing new step for artist Lisa Carletta. In this link you can read the article.

Website

Video portrait of photographer Christian Tagliavini
Watch here

With work from: Andre Lichtenberg, Alberto Sanchez, Skart, Mikael lafontan, Kevin Best, Yang YongLiang and Nicholas Hughes

Wegens deelname aan Scope Basel is de galerie dit weekend (15 jun. t/m 17 jun.) gesloten.    Volgende week bent u weer van harte welkom!

Link to the Scope website

From 30 may till 3 June 2012.
Sophie Maree will be at Kunstrai.

De KunstRAI wordt gepositioneerd
als brede, nationale kunstbeurs
voor hedendaagse kunst en
hedendaagse toegepast kunst:
een publieksbeurs met circa
80 deelnemers die de diversiteit,
kwaliteit en pluriformiteit
van het historisch rijke
Nederlandse aanbod van
beeldende kunst, vormgeving
en design weerspiegelt.

The French Connection

On saturday the 12th of May, we will have a new show with some great French Photography. At 15.00 the opening starts, see you there!

Sophie Maree presents a new outstanding landscape photographer,
Andre Lichtenberg.

With his abstracts of the city Londen, he frames the cityscape below him into an extraordinary abstraction of scale.
Once the viewer has been pulled into this vortex, they can reflect on what they are seeing with a new understanding born of this sudden gestalt-like switch in perception. A fascinating aspect of these towering symbols of financial prowess, is the sense that as they reach for the sky they disconnect from the earth below.

With VERTIGO Lichtenberg poses such questions with a profoundly original insight into his subject, the poetic narrative of a master storyteller, and a breathtaking aesthetic grace.

Gerard Wessel

Uit 4500 fotoboeken die na 1945 zijn gepubliceerd is een selectie gemaakt van de 120 beste boeken. Deze selectie is afgelopen zaterdag gepresenteerd in een prachtig overzichtsboek met de titel “Het Nederlandse Fotoboek” Gerard Wessel is in deze selectie opgenomen met zijn boek “Jong Holland”.

The new works that we will be showing in London, Battersea Park by Peter Lippmann are a selected preview of a two year project by the artist. These images will be edited by Editions Xavier Barral in Octobre in a book most likely entitled “Paradise Parking”. The images offer a poetic look at the relationship between the creations of man and mother nature. 

We are very proud to be the first gallery worldwide to expose any of these pictures

We have the pleasure to announce the news that Christian Tagliavini won The Hasselblad Masters Award 2012. In the category : Fine Art.

http://www.hasselblad.com/masters-2012.aspx

Sophie Maree is delighted to present the amazing work of Yang Yong Liang

Yongliang works and lives in Shanghai, China who works mainly with his  camera and a computer to make his art. Using  these modern tools—and his knowledge of traditional Chinese painting traditions. Yongliang invents urban scenes that depict skyscrapers under construction, freeway systems, electrical power plants, and bustling urban corridors. His compositions starkly reveal the impacts of technological progress that China has undergone over past decades.

Yongliang is among a generation of young artists who came of age after the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and therefore embraces a level of artistic freedom that is not common among past generations of Chinese artists.

Yang Yongliang combines ancient Chinese art techniques, such as shui mo painting and calligraphy, from his early age, his teacher was Yang Yang, with photographic elements of modern urban Shanghai, arranged in the traditional composition of Chinese landscape, to produce artworks with a perfect balance.  He perfectly handles the contradictions between ephemeral and solid, vigor and gentle, sparse and bold, beauty and ugly so as to make the entire picture poetically harmonious, but the details are ‘blots on the landscape’. He successfully achieves a perfect balance between fragility and danger, beauty and cruelty.

Expositie

Dustcollectors expositie van Sebastiaan Straatsma van 11 December t/m 27 Januari. Op 11 December bent u van harte welkom vanaf 13:00 in onze galerie.

Feestdagen

Vanaf 24 December t/m 2 Januari is de galerie gesloten.

Sophie Maree presents Mi-Zo

Mi-Zo is a duo that brings east and west together. We love this idea of bringing two worlds in one!

In what’s probably one of the most unique and compelling ad campaigns this year,

Les Promises De L’hiver – Christian Louboutin collaborates with Peter Lippmann
for a series of images juxtaposing portraits inspired by classic paintings. From Georges de la Tour’s “Magdalene and the Flame” to Jean-Marc Nattier portraits, the images pay homage to art masterpieces with a contemporary twist.

Sophie Maree presents with pride.
Maia Flore and Franck Goldbronn
Two amazing French Photographers that have an unique view on photography.

Maia Flore, with her latest serie ‘Sleep Elevations’ is a mix of an imaginary realism and childhood memories, these beings in levitation invite us to dream, limitlessly.

Franck Goldbronn, created the Rayons X serie, being influenced by analog photography and inspired by the Cubism-movement what creates a modern and classic feel to his work.

The grand opening of Sophie Maree was a big success.

Our thanks go to all of you. We hope to see you soon.

Sophie Maree is happy to say, we are working hard to make our new location ready.

In the beginning of June we will be opening our new place, hopefully we will see you there!

Sophie Maree proudly presents:
Christian Tagliavini

Christian Tagliavini an Italian photographer that made the amazing serie: 1503

“1503″ is a symbolic date and a non-geographic timeless space, in this visionary Renaissance nine still characters are portrayed in solemn, die-cut costumes.