Artist: Jacqueline de Jong
Exhibition title: Plankenkoorts
Venue: Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, The Netherlands
Date: April 16 – June 13, 2021
Photography: Gert Jan van Rooij / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Note: ‘The back(side) of painting’, a specially commissioned conversation by Anna Gritz, curator and writer at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin is available here
Dürst Britt & Mayhew is proud to present ‘Plankenkoorts’, Jacqueline de Jong‘s third exhibition at the gallery.
The exhibition focuses on works from the 1990s and specifically on works made on sailcloth and panel. Working on sailcloth started with a commission for a branch of the Nederlandse Bank in Drachten in Friesland in 1992. De Jong was fascinated by the many shipyards in the area, where skûtsjes were built and thus she came across various discarded pieces of sailcloth. For the bank she made a partition in the middle of the office between the cashiers and the main lobby in the form of a sailcloth painted on both sides. This work ‘The Backside of Existence’ will be on view in De Jong’s upcoming retrospective at WIELS in Brussels, opening on the 1st of May.
The commission started a further series of works on sailcloth. The monumental installation ‘Hanging Women’ is included in the exhibition at Dürst Britt & Mayhew. This piece of painted unstretched cloth serves as a theatrical staging for a series of other paintings on sailcloth and board, depicting various road accidents. Both the work ‘Hanging Women’ and the car crash paintings are reminiscent of de Jong’s ‘Accidental’ and ‘Suicidal’ paintings from the 1960s. Despair and chaos are never far away and the works are a stark reminder of our current feverish times, in which we have to fight our monsters and try to find our feet again.
A series of small Indian ink drawings mounted on panel from 1973 and two large drawings from 1996 complete the exhibition, with their restless and hallucinatory imagery. They show De Jong’s continuous agility to stage her haunting protagonists, be they humans or monsters, in diverse formats and materials.
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Hanging Women, 1992, oil on fishing boat sailcloth, 320 × 700 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Sousterrain, 1994, oil on fishing boat sailcloth and blockboard, 77 × 140 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Deep Down, 1996, pencil, ink, acrylic and charcoal on paper, 149 × 275 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Deep Down, 1996, pencil, ink, acrylic and charcoal on paper, 149 × 275 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Onder het ijs (sous glace), 1994, oil on fishing boat sailcloth and blockboard, 185 × 125 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Hanging Women, 1992, oil on fishing boat sailcloth, 320 × 700 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Hanging Women, 1992, oil on fishing boat sailcloth, 320 × 700 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Hanging Women, 1992, oil on fishing boat sailcloth, 320 × 700 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Hanging Woman, 1992, oil on fishing boat sailcloth, 195 × 210 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Under Pressure, 1994, oil on fishing boat sailcloth and blockboard, 90 × 125 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Under Pressure, 1994, oil on fishing boat sailcloth and blockboard, 90 × 125 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Deep Down, 1996, pencil, ink, acrylic and charcoal on paper, 149 × 275 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Untitled, 1973, Indian ink on paper, mounted on panel, 35 × 40 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Untitled, 1973, Indian ink on paper, mounted on panel, 35 × 35 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Untitled, 1973, Indian ink on paper, mounted on panel, 35 × 40 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Car Break, 1994, oil on fishing boat sailcloth and blockboard, 155 × 172 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Untitled, 1973, Indian ink on paper, mounted on panel, 35 × 35 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Untitled, 1973, Indian ink on paper, mounted on panel, 30 × 50 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Piano, 1994, oil on fishing boat sailcloth and blockboard, 122 × 140 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, On the Road, 1996, pencil, ink, acrylic and charcoal on paper, 149 × 255 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Hanging Women, 1992, silk screen on grey paper, 30 × 42 cm
Jacqueline de Jong, Plankenkoorts, 2021, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
Jacqueline de Jong, Hanging Woman, 1992, oil on fishing boat sailcloth, 195 × 210 cm