Lot 98 - Jasper Hagenaar - Miltons Apples

Acrylic on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Victoria Lucas

About

Evoking the ambience of vintage lifestyle magazine or art book photography there is so much ambience captured in Jasper Hagenaar’s carefully framed imagery. Oftentimes portraying still life compositions built from other existing artworks, his paintings feel both contemporary and classic, all while appearing faded and aged and therefore precious. Such a peculiar facade is the result of the artist’s insisting on working with watered out oils on paper (which is then mounted on panel), through which he recreates the immediacy and emotive relationship with watercolors. Still allowing his brush work and technical structure to be highly visible, he is utilising the materiality of paint through an unconventional, more profound and delicate approach.

Education

2004 -2005
Rijksakademie Amsterdam (NL)
1996 - 2000
Academie van beeldende vorming Tilburg (NL)
1995 -1996
Groningen University (NL)

Solo Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions (2025 -2015)

2025
Sunset, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021
Lustre, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Botanical interlude, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019
Monotypes, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017
Negen Vazen, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016
It looks like rain, Ornis A gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015
The Attic, Jeanine Hofland gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Group Exhibitions

Group exhibitions (2025 - 2015)

2025
Reality check, Museum More, Gorssel, The Netherlands
Familiekamer kunstprijs, Zoeterwoude, The Netherlands

2024
Embraced, A lived experience, Rhodes Gallery, London, UK
Der Antonyme Salon, Berlin, Germany
Echter, Moving gallery Utrecht, The Netherlands
Aankopen 2023 - 2024, LUMC gallery Leiden, The Netherlands

2023
Polyreality, Hive Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Aanwinsten 2020 -2022 Lumc, Leiden, The Netherlands
Art to make you travel, Heden Den Haag, The Netherlands

2022
Baksteen/Brick, Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Collection presentation, Dordrechts museum, The Netherlands
Healthy city, healthy patronage, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

2021
Mirror/mirror, Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort

2020
In search of the Miraculous, Project space on the inside, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Down under, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Boven de bank, Logman galerie, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Paperish, Althuis Hofland fine arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2019
Works on paper, moving gallery, Utrecht, The Netherlands

2018
Rendez vous met Frans Hals, Frans Hals museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Concepts of time, Lumc gallery, Leiden, The Netherlands
Concepts of time, Rijks museum van oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands
Klein met sixpack, Resy Muysers, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Salon 18, Museum Flehithe, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Nothing but good art, Park, Tilburg, The Netherlands

2017
Utrecht down under, Utrecht, The Netherlands

2016
Anamorfose, Landgoed Beeckestein, Velzen, The Netherlands
Kunst aan het Spaarne, Teylers museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands

Awards

2012
Royal award of Modern Painting, Royal Palace, The Netherlands
(Jury and audience award)

Gallery Representations

Althuis Hofland Fine Arts (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Public Collections

Centraal Museum (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Dordrechts Museum (Dordrecht, The Netherlands)
Teylers Museum (Haarlem, The Netherlands)
Royal Family (Den Haag, The Netherlands)

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

During Covid I started painting hanging fruit. It symbolized a time of freedom, a time of happiness. A memory of a carefree almost lost paradise. Add to this the historical reference of the biblical apple and its role in the fall of man, and there was not much doubt about what to paint.