Aam Solleveld

aam solleveld

Petra Kuipers

Motive Gallery June 2006

Aam Solleveld draws spaces. Early drawings refer to rooms of houses where the artist lived or stayed. They
not only refer to the concrete living space, a chair, a table or a bed, but also to intangible things, to large,
unnameable feelings which cleave to the walls and adhere to everyday objects. A black mass as well as a
gaping abyss. Strange and at the same time self-evident.

The drawings are made with graphite pencil. There are austere lines and cold black shading on the white
paper. Maximum contrast. In 2003/2004 Solleveld made a series of drawings of media spaces in the same
style. Decors built in studios for radio and television recordings. Spaces in which discussions, political
debates or interviews could take place.

Parallel to these works on paper, Solleveld started to make life-size sellotape drawings directly on the walls
of spaces. The artist created two of these installations during a period working in China, in the Chinese
European Art Centre of Xiamen. Cupboards, a gate, a bar. An archetypal Chinese street. Architecture
alternating with everyday objects and media elements. Matter, then emptiness. The drawings are flat and
spatial at the same time. With minimal means and a limited number of lines, Solleveld produces an
architectural space which is just as present as the space itself. A space within a space.

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