TINKA PITTOORS

(°1977, lives and works in Antwerp)

In collaboration with Galerie La Forest Divonne (Brussels & Paris)

 

 

Anyone who has ever visited an exhibition by Tinka Pittoors (°1977) knows: you are not looking at autonomous, separately arranged, beautifully framed or placed on classical pedestals art objects, you are undergoing an experience. You walk in, through or around installations, environments, atmospheres, dream worlds. 
Tinka Pittoors works with all possible materials. She searches for and finds all those objects in daily life: banal and utilitarian in themselves, but if you give them a twist, as she does, they get a completely different, new context and meaning. She does something similar with the colours: everything appears fresh, bright and cheerful. But through that apparent lightness she reaches out to the viewer to lure him in and then pull him into the darkness with a lurch. Underneath the light, pleasantly disturbed layers lurk discomfort and unrest.

A landscape is full of harmony and contradiction, because man literally and figuratively keeps house in it. Tinka Pittoors rethinks and reconstructs these landscapes as a patchwork, with a colorful mix of colors, materials and movements, in which both the utopian and the human play their part. The combination of recognizable with self-invented elements creates a parallel world, a 'condition humaine' for a new visual language. Pittoors, like Alice in Wonderland, makes it clear how cheerfulness and menace can go together. Marc Ruyters, 2024

Tinka Pittoors (lives and works in Antwerp) exhibits since 2005 She has shown in MUKHA Antwerp, SMAK Gent, MMuseum Leuven, Museum aan Zee Den Haag, BAM Mons, Palais d’Iéna, Mol Kiest Kunst, CBK Zeeland, Sidney Biennial,…Recently her work was on view at Art Antwerp, Galerie La Forest Divonne (Paris & Brussels), Kstwrk, Edegen (B), Chateau de Seneffe, Nivelle(B), Cloud Seven, Brussels (B).