Alexandra: amazement
May 21– September 19, 2023 at Café Bern
When you look at the paintings of Alexandra (Hilversum, 1955), you realize that seeing and perceiving do not always coincide. In short, reality through other eyes.
From May 21 to September 19, 2023 she exhibits some of her paintings in Café Bern.
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Alexandra Nieuwenhuijsen
Hilversum, 1955
It is much less known that she also paints. Yet she draws and paints from an early age. She grew up in a family where it was normal, with a father who was a more than creditable Sunday painter.
Alexandra paints what she sees, but what she sees sometimes has a magical side. A curb becomes an intriguing object with her and the scaffolding on the edge of a lake (the “Dümmer”) seems almost enchanted. Perhaps her wonder as a child was already aroused by a magical quality of her father, who worked as a reporter on the radio: his voice could sound from a box on the buffet, while at the same time he was present in the room himself. It is precisely this kind of experience that still stimulates her imagination.
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