Arthur Stam - Large 1988 mixed media "the barn / tennis match" signed

• Particularly beautiful and large mixed media (watercolour, ink, relief) by Arthur Stam (1953-). On the front a shed or storage room interior and on the back of the board a tennis match of naked ladies. Both performances are in good condition. Signed and dated in red ink.

Arthur Stam (Delft, 1953)
Arthur Stam lives and works in Rotterdam From 1971 to 1976 he studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam. He participated in a large number of group exhibitions such as Kunstrai-Amsterdam, HAL Rotterdam, Pulchri Studio The Hague, Museum het Prinsenhof in Delft. He also has many solo exhibitions to his name, including in galleries in Zwolle, Groningen, Haarlem, Utrecht, The Hague, Rotterdam, etc. He has won various prizes: Jacob Hartogh Prize (1977, Pulchri Studio), graphic prize open stable (1977, Oldeberkoop) , Stipendium Rotterdam Art Foundation (1978, Rotterdam) and the Van Ommeren de Voogt Prize (2002, Pulchri Studio). Various publications have been published about his work, including the booklet and the DVD 'Our Gardens'.
The strict arrangement of allotments or the almost choreographic trajectory of man in his environment: at Arthur Stam the space is explored and designed. Rise and fall, the beauty of humble garden sheds and structures, with a love for depth and illusionism. Colleague Aldrik Sluis described it as follows: “Small miracles happen in Arthur Stam's garden sheds. The space is isolated, inward-looking, but at the same time open to the world, details appear in a concentrated light and sometimes have a mysterious origin. Sometimes the carefully conceived compositions are based on a certain Chinese character, which enhances the hermetic character of the composition. It seems as if everything should be that way within the whole, but the individual parts tell their own associative story.
It is surprising that abstract elements can be seen that have a realistic emotional value, so that the boundary between reality and painting is regularly broken.
In the recent work on paper by painter/showcase maker Arthur Stam, his world is increasingly becoming a 'stage'. From a refined play with cut and sawn shapes, it is the decorator who creates the piece, a well-made play.