Nina Nolte & Karin van de Walle - The best is yet to come

For Nina Nolte, born in 1957 in El Salvador, reality is not just a painterly challenge but also a conceptual one. Her paintings, derived from photographs, follow a unique inner logic that aims for absolute coherence among all elements. She is committed to the act of confession. Unlike American photorealistic painters, she uses a brush instead of a spray gun. Her works favor clear definitions of form, precision, and vibrant colors. The result is a reality that forgoes meticulous hyperrealism but reflects the diversity of the body, its dignity and elegance, and the glorification of the moment. The children she depicts exude pure joy of life, while the women are fully engaged in life, in their prime, knowing who they are and what they can still expect from life, true to Sinatra's song "The best is yet to come."

Karin van de Walle, born in 1964 in Epe, Netherlands, as the daughter of Dutch-Indonesian parents, is influenced by her multicultural background. The Internet and pop culture serve as her inspiration. She skillfully combines these impressions with elements of art history and mythology. By exaggerating form, expression, and femininity, she flirts with the edge of kitsch but never crosses it. Through her female figures, she ironically examines the world of glitter and glamour that overwhelms us daily through advertising and the entertainment industry. Her energetic, perfectly constructed, and aesthetically pleasing sculptures made of ceramic and bronze are hedonistic archetypes that hold up a mirror to the times we live in.