m.simons is pleased to present Come On, Play It Again, a group exhibition curated by Robbin Heyker and centred around the work of Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser (1930–2012).
The title Come On, Play It Again refers to De Keyser’s recurring interest in repetition. In his paintings, forms, compositions and gestures are revisited and transformed, allowing each work to become a new variation on something familiar. Rather than repetition as a fixed formula, De Keyser approaches painting as an open process: something that can always be played again.
The exhibition brings together De Keyser’s work with that of seven contemporary artists: Peter Shear, Kurt Ryslavy, Matthew Musgrave, Ido Vunderink, Mirthe Klück, Magnus Frederik Clausen and Robbin Heyker. The exhibition explores painting as an open and ongoing process, where forms, gestures and ideas can be repeated, altered and reconsidered. This playful and intuitive approach to painting is central to De Keyser’s practice, in which simple forms and painterly gestures continually move between abstraction and representation.
