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Exhibition, On tour
17 Oct - 13 Dec 2020

Ton Broekhuis photographs beauty, bloom and death in his immediate surroundings in the Frisian area of Stellingwerven. He walks through the landscape and crawls deep into his own garden. From blades of grass and woods to flower buds and bird corpses, time and again encountering the surprising richness of a seemingly unsightly nature. In his work intimacy and abstraction alternate, in grand journeys through a world within walking distance.

Date
17 Oct - 13 Dec 2020
Location
Statenzaal, Diezerstraat 80, Zwolle

Since the eighties, Ton Broekhuis (1951) is a passionate photographer, who also devoted himself fully to the development of socially engaged photography in the Northern Netherlands. This path led to the founding of the Noorderlicht Photo Festival in 1990, of which he became director. In the years that followed, Noorderlicht developed into a dynamic and idiosyncratic institution, earning international respect. After his retirement, Broekhuis picked up his camera anew.

In 2018, Noorderlicht presented this exhibition in her Studio in Groningen. De Volkskrant awarded five stars. “The mortality of things sets the theme of his photographs, in which he isolates plants that have ceased blossoming, dried-up seed chambers and dandelion clocks from their surroundings by placing them in front of a black background. These little mortals bathe in a soft autumn light, crying out in all their insignificance for an attentive eye.”

De Stad Verbeeldt presents a selection from this exhibition in the beautiful Statenzaal in Zwolle.
www.destadverbeeldt.nl

On display