Klaas Kloosterboer , Han Schuil
Westfriesgasthuis 1

Klaas Kloosterboer made a costume that now hangs in the tall, brightly-lit entrance of the hospital. For the entrance’s air lock, Kloosterboer created another work, namely, a theatrical setting in the shape of a decor with a backdrop and a mirror. One can look at it or walk through it or, as Kloosterboer puts it, ‘observe or do’.
Klaas Kloosterboer’s art (of painting) demonstrates a highly direct work method. He deals with the medium in an almost physical fashion. Color and, above all, contrasting materials, play an important role in his work. Kees van Gelder writes that ‘in Klaas Kloosterboer’s work, there are no references to the surface as illusion or window to reality but that - as with Ellsworth Kelly - form, mass and color are tools to achieve, in an illusory sense, as neutral a result as possible (...)’ For the Westfriesgasthuis he chose a different medium than the art of painting.

Han Schuil exchanged the canvas as carrier for tin and aluminum. Under the outdoor entrance porch of the Westfriesgasthuis, he installed a small house with a bright orange roof. Transformation and abstraction play an important part in his work, through which he seeks to attain images with a powerful activation of signs. To achieve this he uses everyday objects, vignettes, fragments of sports photography, logos, pictograms, comic book characters, video games and street signs etc.