Lily Van Der Stokker
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.This whimsical artwork features a child-like drawing style with vibrant colors and playful, hand-drawn elements. The composition centers around a question posed in large text, "Why are buying a house?", suggesting a thoughtful examination of the motivations and considerations behind home ownership. The visual elements include stylized plants, shapes, and symbols that appear to be questioning or challenging the notion of purchasing a house. The overall style conveys a sense of innocence and curiosity, inviting the viewer to consider the complexities and perspectives surrounding this societal expectation. This artwork likely aims to provoke reflection on the reasons and assumptions underlying home-buying decisions. ...
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Lily Van Der Stokker
1954 , Dutchborn in Den Bosch, The Netherlands, in 1954. She lives and works between Amsterdam and New York. In their immediate delivery, van der Stokker’s works beckon happy-go-lucky intonations in their fanciful, ‘feminine’, curlicued and flower- powered familiarity. Their formal bubbled, blobby, and loopy approachable techniques may recall the doodlings more traditionally relegated to the notebook margins of a teenage girl, while the textual inclusions create dichotomies that illuminate more cutting messages and comment upon more condemning realities. lily van der Stokker presents us with works that require the viewer to consider the implications of ‘Kissy, Kissy’ but also of ‘no improvement / no progress’. As Roberta Smith noted in 1990, “The messages conveyed in this terminally cheerful manner usually have a double edge.” ...
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Kaufmann Repetto
Milan, New York Cityfrancesca kaufmann gallery opened in January 2000. Since then, the gallery has aimed to explore a diverse range of media, with a focus on video, site specific installation, and a special attention towards the works of female artists. After ten years in its historical location, the gallery opened in a new space in October 2010, under the name kaufmann repetto, to mark the partnership between Francesca Kaufmann and Chiara Repetto. In its new location, the gallery has been able to further develop its exhibition programming through a project space dedicated predominantly to younger artists, as well as a courtyard for large scale outdoor installations, which run parallel to the gallery’s main exhibition schedule. In 2013, the gallery inaugurated a new location in Chelsea, New York, with a parallel program to the gallery’s main space in Milan. In 2019 the New York location moved to Tribeca, expanding to a 3,000 sq ft exhibition space. The inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space in Tribeca was a solo show by Lily van der Stokker. ...