Landscape Construction#2 Painting

"The paintings of Robert Broekhuis are representations of a spatial, virtually weightless universe. Within rudimentary architectural or landscape situations, human figures move in a vacuum. He does not reconstruct what he perceives, but concretizes what he conceives. He does not elaborate or fill in what he consciously observes. The panel, the canvas or the wall is for him a void where he creates light in a space with a minimum of color. It is a circumstance in which he can move freely. How he does this is a representation that can be interpreted by everyone in their own way. It is precisely this personal explanation of the possibilities offered by the painted space that gives the painting character. The movement that Robert Broekhuis himself brings about in his paintings is that of free fall, a weightless turning point in existence. He makes it possible for you to imagine this, even in paintings that lack the human figure. They offer you the freedom to imagine something that is absent in the painting. The work of Robert Broekhuis always shows an in-between space, the so-called liminal space that automatically transports you from one situation to another. A liminal space is always a transitional area where you stay for a short time, a landing, a corridor, a space revealed by an upright window or ajar door. It is the threshold of consciousness, the space between conjecture and knowing, between outside and inside, the imaginary space of a stair step that you miss when you stumble. Man then has an imperfect presence..."Alex de Vries, 2019