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Smyth-sewn casebound, 25 x 25 cm. / 204 pp. / 132 color reproductions of the paintings and drawings by JOS van WUNNIK. Text: Dutch / English
With diary fragments and an art-biographic essay by Martha Dirkmaat-Planting.
In his often meditative work, artist Jos van Wunnik (b. Maastricht, 1951) always seeks to represent invisible aspects of reality in a recognisable world. The landscapes that he creates layer by layer, like textiles, using numerous horizontal and vertical stripes or strokes, thus gain an added dimension and become as it were true soulscapes. His special bond with trees taught him that we, like them, are interwoven with invisible force fields and situated in a transparent space.
Van Wunnik’s quest to unite ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ is visualised in more than a thousand paintings and drawings, from which a wide selection was made for this book. The accompanying essay by Martha Dirkmaat-Planting examines various periods of the artist’s life, with a song Wunnik composed in his youth as the guiding thread.
‘I am probably more a sculptor than a painter. It is not so much the scent and solid application of paint that I enjoy as it is the process of quieting and attending to an inner image that is slowly seeking to become visible.’
Jos van Wunnik
