Exhibitions   

Lakenhal

Impressions of the exposition in Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands 13 November 1997 through 25 January 1998.

Once the collection of Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal was a source of inspiration for Jurriaan van Hall, who grew up in Noordwijk (near Leiden). Now he has his own exposition with some 80 works in this renowned museum. His work fits in a most titillating way into the context of the museum with its traditional collection of Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt, Van Goyen and Floris Verster and more recent collection of works by Gijs Frieling, Fons Haagmans and Bram van Velde.

Jurriaan van Hall is a pure painter. Free of all forms of conceptualism and overbearing theories that usually need to justify new art forms, he paints life, his life: uncomplicated, richly variegated and appealing to all senses. He doesn’t seclude himself in his studio, yet he mingles in the daily life on the street, on the beach and amongst family. Besides traditional subjects he just as easily paints the world of mass comsumption and mass tourism. For Jurriaan, to paint is to get to grips with reality.

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