Wil Klaassen - Compositie met rood (1) | zeefdruk - ingelijst

Artworks by Wil Klaassen (1939) stand out for their composition and arrangement, for their use of form and colour. "First and foremost I look for harmony and balance with abstract shapes, color and line." Harmony, balance and chaos; pre-eminently concepts to which emotions can attach themselves and so broad that everyone can give their own interpretation to them.

In the mid-1980s Klaassen made a series of abstract works in which striking red elements contrast with the predominantly grey-blue and white tones.
This screen print is part of that series and is produced in an edition of 50 pieces.
Edition: 14 of 50
Signed in pencil by the artist
The top is framed with a 'thick' caliber passe-partout in a heavy-duty aluminum interchangeable frame. With hanging wire.
NB: See also the other screen prints from the same series!
Photos are part of the description.
Note: Condition
The work will be carefully packaged for shipping. Any glass breakage is the responsibility of the buyer. Combined shipping for the same rate is not possible.

About the artist:
Wil Klaassen was born in Eindhoven in 1939 and is self-taught. He does not see himself primarily as an innovative or groundbreaking artist. His aim is to deepen the acquired expressiveness rather than to expand the range that he can cover with that skill. 'Just as the speed of consumption is increasing in society, so is the speed of image consumption in art. There is hardly time for a movement, because before the word is spoken it is already over,' said the artist in an interview.
Klaassen's preference for creating rather than referring corresponds to the views of constructivism as it emerged in Russia in the first decades of the last century. Yet it is not Klaassen's intention to link up with a particular phase of art history.
The strict order and the spatial forms with their cast shadows that often occur in his work fit very well into the screen printing technique. Klaassen printed all his prints himself and over the years has developed his own technique with which he is able to achieve surprisingly beautiful results in very small editions.
Later, Klaassen started painting much more, including on panels.

Wil Klaassen exhibited frequently in Amsterdam and Groningen, but his work also hung in galleries in London, New York and Taiwan. His work is often in private and corporate collections. Klaassen lives and works in the South of France for a large part of the year.