Ties ten Bosch - cool, calm, collected

Galerie Gilla Lörcher is delighted to present the first solo
show of Dutch artist Ties Ten Bosch in Germany. Cool, calm,
collected can be seen both as a method of working by artist
Ties Ten Bosch, as well as the outcome of the processes
that he is going through while making his work. Out of the
chaos of his daily practice as an artist, Ties subtracts
elements that reflect on his own position as an artist and
the state of the arts in general. He literally collects and then
filters his material in order to make them into calm and
serene images, although the notion of the disturbance of
the previous chaos is still present.

In Cool Calm Collected Ties is showing a new series of works
that reflect directly on the white wall of the art institute/
the gallery. He shows us how these walls separate the art
from the outside world and how the artist deals with that.
The works investigate the struggle between making art that
stands in the middle of society and at the mean time tries
to filter out the irrelevant. Ties literally asks himself and the
viewer how the white walls are created and how they
function. He shows us how white the white walls actually
are.

Ties Ten Bosch, born in ’s-Hertogenbosch in1977 (NL), lives
and works in Berlin. From 1989-1996 the artist studied at
the Rodenborch college Rosmalen (HAVO/VWO), from 1996-
2000 at the TU Delft and from 2001-2005 at the Willem de
Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. He holds a Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree. In 2010 Ties Ten Bosch was awarded the
Fonds BKVB artists residence Douala, Cameroon, and in
2011 the O&O fund, CBK Rotterdam. His works have been
shown in galleries and project spaces: Douala, Cameroun
(CAM); Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin (D); KWC, Rotterdam
(NL); WEI, Eindhoven (NL); Project space Lage Egal, Berlin
(D); Gallery Hommes, Rotterdam (NL), Galerie Frank Taal,
Rotterdam (NL) and Galerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin (D).

Photo - Ties Ten Bosch: Invitation card. Cool, calm,
collected. Galerie Gilla Loercher 2016. Foto/Copyright: the
artist