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Fernandes Goes Art with Readytex Art Gallery Recently, on Tuesday the 24th of February, Fernandes Klip, the Fernandes Group warehouse on the Klipstenenstraat 2-10, opened its newly transformed 1st floor after undergoing a stylish metamorphosis. The official opening was organized in cooperation with the Readytex Art Gallery. The entire floor is decorated with a great variation of living room ensembles and every space and corner presents unique designs in interior decorating. The emphasis is on furniture in contemporary trends...
Marcel Pinas Staying up to date on the developments in the art career of Surinamese artist Marcel Pinas, requires continuous effort. For years now Marcel is known as an artist strongly dedicated to his culturally inspired theme; a theme with which he has managed to put the unique maroon culture in Suriname on the map in many places around the world. That has been his purpose all along; to give the culture and its vulnerability to our rapidly changing...
‘OUT OF THE OCEAN’
A solo exhibition by
Roddney Tjon Poen Gie
On October 15th the Readytex Art Gallery launches yet again another spectacular solo exhibition in her historical space in the Maagden straat. This unique exhibition with sculptures of a different type than those usually seen in the gallery is by the versatile and talented Surinamese artist Roddney Tjon Poen Gie. The artist is an adept and expert sculptor of different materials such as wood, ceramics and other natural materials, but...
Mini-feature: Humphrey TawjoeramBack to abstract In the month September the Readytex Art Gallery presents to the public yet another new and intriguing mini-feature. The artist whose work will be dominating the main hall of the gallery this time around is Humphrey Tawjoeram. After his big solo-exhibition in the gallery in 2007 where the main theme was centered on elements from his own cultural background and heritage, his recent work is once again done primarily in the more abstract style...
SoekaThe faces tell the story Henry Soekarman Kartotaroeno, better known as Soeka presents to the public an art form which not many contemporary artists in Suriname presently employ. Black and white life like portraits done in conté on paper and oils on canvas, are without a doubt the specialty of this unpretentious but highly skilled artist. Starting on August 5th the Readytex Art Gallery launches a special Mini Feature on Soeka during which an extensive selection of the artist’s...
Tosari: kleur, contrast en verdieping
(color, contrast and depth)
On July 29th, the IVCC – Instituto Venezolano para la Cultura y la Coöperacion under the auspices of the Readytex Art Gallery, presents the latest solo-exhibition from the artist René Tosari.
‘Tosari: kleur, contrast en verdieping’ is once again a unique exhibition by this artist who- despite his many years of experience as a professional artist- manages time and time again to present work of a new dimension and depth to his...
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Commonalities….
between Suriname and Venezuela celebrated through Art
On July 4th the Readytex Art Gallery will once again open with a special art exhibition in the Venezuelan Institute for Culture and Cooperation (IVCC- Instituto Venezolano para la Cultura y la Cooperacion). As art gallery and Venezuelan Institute, the promotion of art and cultural expression have long since been a common goal, and this exhibition once...
Readytex Art Gallery presents “Prit Pangi” A spectacular solo exhibition from Sri Irodikromo
On June 10th the Readytex art gallery presents “Prit Pangi”, the second large solo exhibition in her exhibit halls for this year. The exhibiting artist this time around is the talented Sri Irodikromo, daughter of the famous Surinamese artist Soeki Irodikromo. Composed out of the skillful fusion of a multitude of techniques and materials, the powerful and colorful collection shown in this exhibition proves very convincingly that...
Mini Feature: George Struikelblok This April of 2008, the Readytex Art Gallery once again invites all art lovers to a special mini feature in the main hall of her charming upstairs space in the Maagden straat. The special feature this time in the gallery introduces some spectacular new pieces of art by the well known Surinamese artist George Struikelblok. In the past years George Struikelblok has managed to become quite well known locally as well as internationally, for...
“Misschien” – (“Maybe”)
Solo exhibition and presentation of the mini catalogue on the work of
KURT NAHAR
Refreshingly modern, colorful and intense, but at the same time also very different and daring and some times even shocking; such is the work in the latest solo exhibition on artist Kurt Nahar at the Readytex Art Gallery. Many an adjective will undoubtedly be ascribed to the work of this young artist, but no matter what personal opinion on his controversial methods may be, his...
