Light at the end: Bram Kinsbergen

Making an image of an important moment allows us to preserve our experience. Long after the moment has passed, we look at the image. Once again we experience what we felt in that moment. But there is also less of a danger here. Today, everyone has a digital camera with almost endless storage capacity, we are faced with a proliferation of images. We no longer experience the moment, we only capture it and never look back. The experience is gone; everyone makes the same meaningless images.

Bram Kinsbergen (b. 1984, Belgium) works intuitively, he paints what touches him and is driven by the desire for something original. Sometimes this leads to carefully constructed compositions, with views and a subtle play between the front, middle, and back plan in which imagination and experience intertwine. But he also paints portraits of the people dear to him, at a moment of the day that is dear to him. In Light at the end, we see examples of both. What unites these works, besides a smooth mastery of the medium of painting, is the careful attention to the power of an image.