Essay ‘Painting as a concert’
By Lena Friedli
Load it!
Hidde van Schie is charged. His paintings are charged – perhaps even overcharged? However, through his work he is able to offload this energy and to rid himself of this excess. Expressing his opinion, and letting his feelings run wild – for everything, the artist finds an outlet. That there is so much to say is maybe a reason for his abundance of works and the heterogeneity in the medium, ultimately the ‘noise’. “There will be sleeping enough in the grave” as Benjamin Franklin would say. Van Schie’s strategy of image production is not gentle, leisurely, successive, nor seemingly well-considered, but rather the rapid filling of an empty vessel until the barrel overflows. Writing about these images is not easy; they are always ahead of you in their provocation leaving you no respite. They are already exclamation marks, always stressed syllables.
