Ide André at at SUNSET

Artist: Ide André

Exhibition title: Echoes of Practice

Venue: at SUNSET, Scheveningen, the Hague, the Netherlands

Date: June 16, 2024

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and at SUNSET

at SUNSET is pleased to present a one day one painting event by the Sunday Morning Painters Club showing Echoes of Practice by Ide Andre.

at SUNSET is a Scheveningen based art space which shares its space with a shifting selection of national and international artist-run spaces. at SUNSET is a non-regular initiative that seeks to create dialogue, exchange and connection with a focus on the process with artists.

The Sunday Morning Painters Club reveals conversations between painters and paintings on a quiet Sunday morning.

As I wade through the uncomplicated colours and feel their uplifting energy, I wonder how this transfer of energy works. What tricks do these sensations play on me? What exactly is this energy that sparks between the colours and between the colours and me? The effect of the colour is tangible: it actually crackles and gives me something to hold onto. I know nothing, but I am there. It is the sound that gives me a footing and confirms my experience. Only because I hear the sizzling do I know what I am feeling.

It’s the soft crackling sound that makes me dare to believe that I see – Excerpt from “Crackling Gum on my Tongue” essay by Barbara Collé, part of same titled riso publication by Ide André.