Elizabeth Xi Bauer presents '+ Days + Nights', an exhibition showcasing the works of contemporary artist Abraham Kritzman and Belgian abstractionist Philippe Van Snick. This collaboration marks the first time their art has been presented in dialogue, merging two distinct yet complementary artistic practices. Kritzman’s multilayered compositions are brought together with Van Snick’s refined abstraction, which blends modern art heritage with conceptual inquiries of the 1970s, offering a rich exploration of contemporary themes. Abraham Kritzman’s multidisciplinary practice centres on an immersive language expressed through painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Inspired by journeys, his work merges mythical narratives, human imagery, architecture, and...
Elizabeth Xi Bauer presents '+ Days + Nights', an exhibition showcasing the works of contemporary artist Abraham Kritzman and Belgian abstractionist Philippe Van Snick. This collaboration marks the first time their art has been presented in dialogue, merging two distinct yet complementary artistic practices. Kritzman’s multilayered compositions are brought together with Van Snick’s refined abstraction, which blends modern art heritage with conceptual inquiries of the 1970s, offering a rich exploration of contemporary themes.
Abraham Kritzman’s multidisciplinary practice centres on an immersive language expressed through painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Inspired by journeys, his work merges mythical narratives, human imagery, architecture, and landscape to create layered and dynamic compositions Kritzman’s works embody a dance of gestures and delicate details that bridge historical and contemporary themes.
Philippe Van Snick employed a rigorous yet poetic visual language, using binary logic, mathematical structures, and rhythms in nature to explore perception, time, and space. At the core of his oeuvre was a decimal system (0–9) paired with a distinctive ten-colour palette—red, yellow, blue, orange, violet, green, white, black, gold, and silver—through which he systematically examined the dualities of day and night, presence and absence, stability and instability.
In their work, Kritzman and Van Snick make it their mission to explore and express the complex interplay between their life experiences and unique artistic languages.
