RIEN VÖRGERS

RIEN VÖRGERS|The Netherlands (Artist)

Rien Vörgers was born in Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1923 and he died in 2013. Between 1945-49, he travelled through Southeast Asia with his own Netherlands Indonesian Welfare Artists  theater and cabaret company. It was only in the early 1980s, that he realised full-time painting , when he had first created his own renovating “mosaic” style, which goes one step further than Mondriaan’s work half a century earlier. His meditative way of creating resembles  that of De Kooning, who also dared to deviate from the current fashion in abstract painting. And though Picabia  was the first modern painter using “transparency”, he did not get rid of lines and contours like Rien does. In the Dutch Government’s Parliament building  “Het Binnenhof” in The Hague, a seven months solo exhibition was organised in 2002/3 especially for 24 of Rien’s paintings, where the Vice Prime Minister  and Secretary of the Treasury then in function,  Gerrit Zalm, opened the show officially, on september 3, 2002. In 2005 he was awarded in Florence (Italy) with the medal award to the career with “Lorenzo il Magnifico” during the V Biennal of International Contemporary Art. In 2009 he was awarded of Certificate of Excellence (Honorable Award) by the Artaddiction Galery in London.