meat Painting

Born 1963 Heerlen Netherlands

the irony of painting
Ruud Aarts is looking for strong and fascinating images. Explicit and suggestive images which are the synthesis of a careful process of extruding ideas from everyday life. Although the enigmatic contents of his work should reveal enigmatic impulses to the viewer univocity has to be avoided. The range of associations depends on the perception of the viewer, so: every work has to be a sort of divergent and cumulative well.The differences between his works reinforce each other and the caused images between are substantial to the imagination of the viewer; its like finding a needle in a haystack.
His paintings become more and more psychological mirrors because the ever appearing riddles cause insecurity to the viewer; now he is vulnerable.The most substantial attitude of man. No formal scientific method is capable of making a difference between a good or a bad perception :so the viewer cant make any mistakes.
The way space is reflected in two dimensions urges the viewer to look with two eyes instead of one. The viewer becomes an observer. As an observer, who isnt standing along the line, he turns out to be the centre of his own story. It isnt about painting.
Our imagination is limited because the laws of nature have stipulated our way of thinking through evolution. Depth in two dimensions literally spoken is contradictory. The identity of paint as such lays in its capability of adopting endless appearances Painting as an art is most difficult to broaden so in this context as well development and quality always are related to time.
Ruud Aarts wants the viewer to realise how we look at the everyday abundance of images: and especially the commonplace of its multiplication. Paint is no press-ink or pixel. Credibility and truth are synonymous but both are univocal and oppress the alternative. Its like a yes or no question. For certain his work contents antagonisms and is contradictory. He wants his art to be indispensable. Indispensable art is ridiculous and therefore pure irony. The irony of painting