
Ilse D’Hollander
Ilse D’Hollander’s first solo exhibition in Asia consists of thirteen small-scale oil paintings and eight even smaller gouache-on-paper works. Nine of the canvases were made in 1996, D’Hollander’s most productive year, the last before her tragic suicide at age twenty-eight. As with much of this Belgian artist’s humble oeuvre, everything on display is Untitled.
Throughout this show, rudimentary, harmonious shapes meld with a low-key palette to loosen the possibilities of two-dimensional space. Three gouache paintings from 1994 depict pastoral landscapes seen from above, abstracted into patches of