Hoogvliet Mon Amour

RONALD CORNELISSEN

PAUL VAN DER EERDEN

HOOGVLIET MON AMOUR

Both artists seem to approach their work like anthropologists do. Paul van der Eerden as an observer of human failure, deboning the human spirit and drawing the incapacity which seems to be the result of man’s mental state. Ronald Cornelissen is characterized as a chronicler of man’s sorrow in his urban setting, his inflated ego and the implications of power on human behaviour.

One could say van der Eerden shapes a chaotic inner world and Cornelissen shapes the effects of this turmoil, a dark place of violence and sexual aberrations, translated into drawings questioning perverted exercise of power and macho behaviour.

In their work and development, both artists owe much to the classical arts. This is apparent not only in what influences the work, but also in the means used to emphasize a work’s credibility. The artists are led by the development within a drawing. A drawing in which structure, composition and the relation between figuration and abstraction shows a classic approach to the art of drawing.