Willem Snitker (1938-2015) - "Sky sculpture / clouds above Bevagna Umbria Italy"

Artist: Willem Snitker (Heemstede, 1938 - 2015)
Medium: oil paint on panel
Dating: 2000
Numbered: original unique work
Signed: bottom right and on the back
Condition: In good condition
Titled: "Sky sculpture / clouds above Bevagna Umbria Italy"

Willem Snitker (Heemstede, 1938 - 2015)

Sometimes you forget for a moment that Willem Snitker is a painter, because he so eagerly leaves that solitary, solitary-handed craft to make things with others or to bring others – poets, musicians and composers – together. His studio plus Bleeker Gallery in Heemstede is a treasure trove of beauties that has resulted from that. The first project conceived by Willem that I participated in was a folder with poems and graphics by, among others, Jan Sierhuis, Harry Mulisch, Ger Lataster, Gerrit Achterberg and Nono Reinhold. If there is something typifying Snitker’s vision of the visual arts, it is the eagerness with which he throws open the doors and windows of his atelier to engage in collaboration with others, such as most recently with David Mitchell for the project ‘DEJIMA’ and a book-object about Sicily with Geerten Meijsing. Earlier collaborations include the Milanese poet Franco Loi, the angels of Michel van der Plas, with Lucebert, Jan Elburg, Toer van Schaik, Jan Cremer and Bert Schierbeek. Recently he discovered 35 unknown stunning drawings in the attic of the studio of Mari Andriessen and he and his wife donated to the Haarlem Philharmonie a monumental Lataster long-term loan. It evokes the impressive enterprises for which the Italian Renaissance artists gathered, but also the way artists in early European Modernism collaborated on books, films and buildings. Willem van Toorn 2009