Meanwhile...: 29 May – 22 August 2020

Slewe Gallery is pleased to announce the (re)opening of the gallery after more than two months of temporarily closure with a group exhibition of new works, made during the recent lockdown by some locally based artists.

Please note that during the summer months of July and August the gallery will be only open by appoitment.

Artists who participate in Meanwhile... are Adam Colton, Alice Schorbach, Jan van Munster, Joris Geurts, Krijn de Koning, Lon Pennock, Michael Jacklin, Paul Drissen, Roos Theuws, Ruud Kuijer, Steven Aalders.

The exhibition, entitled Meanwhile ..., was on view from May 29 to June 27 and will now be extended until August 22. During the summer months of July and August the gallery will be open only by appointment.

The gallery is open according to the regulations of the RIVM. The gallery will allow a limited number of visitors at a time. However, the gallery offers enough space to keep a safe distance.

The next exhibition with new works by Martin Gerwers (*1963, DE) will open on September 4.

Adam Colton, Silver: 3 March – 1 April 2018

Slewe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Silver by Adam Colton. It opens Saturday March 3 and will run until April 1. Colton, who is known as a sculptor of organic shaped carvings, will show new works on paper and two recent aluminium cast sculptures.

Colton's career began in the early eighties with white plaster constructions based on his own leg. His work developed through geometric stone and wood carvings towards organic shaped carvings in the artificial material of polyurethane foam, which he gave a natural feel through sanding and painting them in an off whitish colour. The last years he also casts these forms in aluminum. At the same time, he still occupies himself with sculptural principles as volume, space and weight. The practice of drawing is the underpinning for all his works. The developing process from initial drawing to a three-dimensional object is essential for the outcome of the work. For this exhibition he specially created some different series of drawings, experimenting with various material, like silver paint and iridescent paper, reflecting light and space.

Colton was born in 1957 in Manchester (GB). Since 1981 he lives and works in the Netherlands. After his study at the Ateliers 63 in Haarlem he had his first solo show at Art & Project in Amsterdam in 1983. Since 2002 he exhibits regularly at Slewe Gallery. This will be his fifth solo exhibition at Slewe. Through the years he had several museum shows in the Netherlands, at the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Commanderie van St.Jan in Nijmegen, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede and Gemeentemuseum The Hague. In 2009 his exhibition Love Arises from the Foam opened at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. In the Winter of 2013/2014 He had a solo exhibition of his work Carvings and Bones at Museum Kröller-Müller in Otterlo. In the same period Slewe Gallery published a catalogue covering almost 25 years of his work, with texts by Penelope Curtis, director of Tate Britain in London and Anno Lampe, private collector.

Traces: Adam Colton, Alan Johnston, Caro Jost, Stanislav Kolibal: 21 April – 27 May 2017

A work of art is a construction. When an artist makes an object, he or she is leaving traces that reveal the way of constructing. It is his or her handwriting. The exhibition at Slewe Gallery brings work from four artists from different countries and generation together that shows marks, grids and helplines that were necessary to establish the final art work. The exhibition Traces with works by Adam Colton, Alan Johnston, Caro Jost and Stanislav Kolíbal opens Friday April 21 and lasts until May 27.

The Czech drawer and sculptor Stanislav Kolíbal (*1925, Orlová) is the strongest representative of the constructivist movement in Eastern Europe that piloted the clear abstract geometrical art through the oppressive days of communist regime.

The Scottish artist Alan Johnston (*1945, Edinburgh) makes huge wall drawings out of miniscule repetitive scribbles that relate to the architecture of the site. Small wooden panels with fields of such scribbles together with black and white planes serve as models.

Adam Colton (*1957, Manchester), known for organic objects in off whitish coloured polyurethane or aluminium, shows the grid with numbers used to blow up the scale from model to final sculpture.

Caro Jost (*1965, München) shows frottages on canvas of historical pavements. The series is a pilgrimage, going into the footsteps of the great New York painters of the twentieth century. Dust and grit from the pavement in front of Barnett Newman’s studio has stuck in the surface of white paint.

Adam Colton, Blow: 29 November – 28 December 2013

Slewe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Blow by an alumnus of de Ateliers, British sculptor Adam Colton (*1957). It will open during the Amsterdam Art Weekend on Friday November 29 and will run until December 28, 2013. Especially for this occasion a new catalogue will be launched covering almost 25 years of work, with texts by Penelope Curtis, director of Tate Britain in London and Anno Lampe, private collector.

After his last show Cliffhanger at the gallery in 2012 he was invited by the National Glass Museum Leerdam to produce new sculptures in glass. The results will be shown next to newly made cast aluminium sculptures and related drawings.

During the last years Colton made organic shaped objects in polyurethane foam or aluminium. They lie on the floor or hang against the wall. His career began in the early eighties with white plaster constructions based on his own leg. His work developed through geometric stone and wood carvings towards organic shaped carvings in the artificial material of polyurethane foam, which he gave a natural feel through sanding and painting them in an off whitish color. At the same time he still occupies himself with sculptural principles as volume, space and weight. The practice of drawing is the underpinning for all his works. The developing process from initial drawing to a three-dimensional object is essential for the outcome of the work.

Colton was born in 1957 in Manchester (GB). Since 1981 he lives and works in the Netherlands. After his study at the Ateliers 63 in Haarlem he had his first solo show at Art & Project in Amsterdam in 1983. He had several museum shows in the Netherlands, at the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Commanderie van St.Jan in Nijmegen, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede and Gemeentemuseum The Hague. In 2009 he made the exhibition Love Arises from the Foam at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.

Presently there is a solo exhibition of his work Carvings and Bones at the Museum Kröller-Müller in Otterlo (NL), until March 9, 2014. For more information please visit www.kmm.nl.

Slewe Gallery will participate at Amsterdam Art Weekend from November 29 through December 1, 2013 with extended opening hours from 12 am to 8 pm. For more information please visit www.amsterdamartweekend.nl. 

Selected Works: 12 January – 16 February 2013

Slewe Gallery is pleased to start the new year with a group show from January 12 through February 16. Selected Works includes a selection of about 14 works by 7 artists of the gallery, including recent pieces by Merina Beekman, Frank Van den Broeck, Alan Charlton, Adam Colton, Martin Gerwers, Michael Jacklin and Alan Johnston.

During the exhibition there will be a concert held on Sunday 27 January at 3 pm. John snijders will perform Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage for prepared piano. Entrance free (rsvp: info@slewe.nl).

Slewe Gallery will participte at Art Rotterdam from 7 through 10 February (www.artrotterdam.nl).

Adam Colton, Cliffhanger: 8 September – 6 October 2012

Slewe Gallery is pleased to annouce the opening of the exhibition Cliffhanger by British sculptor Adam Colton (*1957). It will open on Saturday September 8 and will run until October 6, 2012.

After his show Love Arises from the Foam at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam and his solo exhibition at Slewe at Art Amsterdam in 2009, he continued developing his whitish organic shaped carvings in polyeruthane foam. Its result will be on show in relation with newly made drawings on paper. For this occasion he also made esepcially a wall drawing.

Colton makes mostly objects of polyurethane foam. They lie on the floor or hang against the wall. He calls them ‘blobs’. His career started in the early eighties with plaster constructions made of his own leg. His work developed through geometric stone and wood carvings towards organic shaped carvings in the artificial material of polyeruthan foam, which he gives a natural feeling by sanding and painting them in an off whitish color. At the same time he still occupies himself with sculptural principles as volume, space and weight. The practise of drawing is an underlying study for all his works. The expanding process of the initial drawing to a 3-dimensional object is essential for the outcome of the work.

Colton was born in 1957 in Manchester (GB). Since 1981 he lives and works in the Netherlands. After his study at the Ateliers 63 in Haarlem he had his first solo show at Art & Project in Amsterdam in 1983. He had several museum shows in the Netherlands, at the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Commanderie van St.Jan in Nijmegen, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede and Gemeentemuseum The Hague. In 2001 he had a solo show at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.

For more information please contact the gallery.

Adam Colton: 25 March – 29 April 2006

Adam Colton: 7 September – 12 October 2002

Liaisons: 9 December – 12 February 1996

From December 9 1995 until February 12, 1996, Slewe Gallery will host a group exhibition entitled Liaisons. Participating artists are Adam Colton, Peter Davis, Martina Klein, Alice Schorbach, Paul Vos de Wael.