Abstract painter Wim Zorn is a true studio painter. His workshop is both a delivery room and a laboratory. In this space, he creates an autonomous world of materials, form and colour, in which spactial experiences are combined with physical precense. His paintings are changing rooms and add something to it. There spatial experiences go hand in hand with physical aura. Their physical precense is inseparable from their tactile component. The sense of touch is continually stimulated. Zorn's abstract paintings are truly non-representational but never devoid of life. The surface of the paint shimmers and vibrates. Irregularities, rough skin, and jagged edges ameliorate the severity. They betray human intervention and emphasize that the abstract concept has not been generated by a computer, but by a creator of flesh and blood. Maybe it is like a hide-and-seek game when an artist creates something so cool and collected on the surface while the piece is boiling inside. It brings the viewer where she or he supposed to be: in an active communicating stand. The viewer understands that art also creates space in his or her own mind...
Exhibitions:
Bologna Italy/Galleria de Marchi
Florence Italy/Biënnale
Las Vegas/USA Southern Nevada Museum
New York/ USA Broadway Gallery
New York/USA Slem Governors Island
Halen/Belgium Galerie De Souvereine
Gent/Belgium Lineart
Antwerpen/Belgium Art Event
Brussels/Monat Gallery
Dubai/Madinat Jumeirah, Art Acquire Exhibition
Hamburg/Germany Gallery Marziart
Mannheim/Germany Gallery Böhmer
Madrid/Spain Monat Gallery
The Netherlands/ Galerie Terbeek, Peter Leen, Ariane and exhibitions in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht etc.
