DUTCH painter Jacqueline de Jong has opened her first major exhibition in the UK at a Llandudno gallery.
The 82-year-old artist, nicknamed ‘the Art Rebel’ is displaying her The Ultimate Kiss series at MOSTYN contemporary art gallery featuring more than 80 paintings.
Jacqueline de Jong and her work.
The works span her 50-year career in which de Jong has continuously re-invented herself with using styles including expressionism, Cubism pop art, photo realism and landscape paintings and her humour of eroticism and the grotesque.
The solo exhibition takes place at MOSTYN until the start of February next year.
Exhibition curator Juliette Desorgues said: “I have been an admirer of Jacqueline’s work for many years. We met in 2017 and have been in dialogue ever since.
Jacqueline de Jong with her work at the exhibition in Llandudno, her first in the UK.
“She has a unique way of exploring themes such as violence and eroticism with humour that is also tinted with darkness. Her work can be understood as an exploration and comment on the complexity of our human condition.”
De Jong’s life and work are marked and influenced by some of the defining moments of the post-war avant garde, from her early involvement in the Situationist International and the protest movements of May ‘68, to her experimentations with form and colour that were influenced by some of the key artistic genres of 20th century from Expressionism to Pop Art, which remain relevant to today’s concerns.
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