Chris van Geest - Oil on canvas | 'The view (2)' | Late 80's

Intriguing work by Chris van Geest. Signed lower right with monogram.

Encased in the original MDF wooden frame.

Chris van Geest is one of the Magical Realists who gathered around the Amsterdam Gallery Mokum from the 1960s. These painters depict a reality that is apparently accurate and realistic, but at the same time contains elements that make the representation impossible or at least absurd and improbable. In doing so, they comment on society or reflect what moves them, often with humor. Chris van Geest strips the objects in his paintings of their natural meaning and gives them a different meaning. The painter expresses feelings with these manipulated images. He applies the paint as smooth and even as possible; the visibility of the brush stroke is avoided as much as possible. (source Simonis & Buunk)

1960/63 Education at the Academy of Visual Arts St. Joost, Breda

Solo exhibitions:
1965 Mokum Gallery, Amsterdam
1969 Mokum Gallery, Amsterdam
1971 Mokum Gallery, Amsterdam
1977 Gallery Siau, Amsterdam
1986 Gallery d'End, Amsterdam

Group exhibitions:
1965 New figures. Traveling exhibition organized by Galerie Mokum, Amsterdam
1967 '2000 days of Mokum'. Gallery Mokum, Amsterdam
1968 Figuration. Gallery Mokum, Amsterdam
1969 Young Dutch realists from the Mokum gallery. Municipal Museum, Arnhem
Reality cabinet. Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1970 Gallery Delahuis, Eindhoven
1970/71 Fifty years of Dutch realistic art / Fifty years of Dutch realistic art. Traveling exhibition, curated by Galerie Mokum, Amsterdam
1971 Dutch realists. Archer Gallery, London
1972 10 years of Mokum. Overview exhibition at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1972 Atelier 10. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1974/77 Gallery Siau, Amsterdam
1986 Gallery d'End, Amsterdam
2006/11 Petit Gallery, Amsterdam
2006/08 Realists Fair. Passenger Terminal, Amsterdam (source website artist)