TORCH Gallery

On view: Steering Skies These artworks explore how the sky can be read, constructed, and reinterpreted across time. They draw on Dutch Golden Age landscape paintings and translate them into computational fields. Lars van Vianen Steering Skies 2014 Washi Glicée Print 50 x 40 cm #landscape #artexhibitionamsterdam

On view: POSSE is an digital installation which turns every visitor into a stylised figure… Come and visit us and try it out for yourself! Lars van Vianen, Chris Kievid, Jim van Hekke POSSE, 2024 Latent Diffusion Model 4 to 10 x 2160 x 3840 px IPS panels + 4000 x 4000 mm footprint #digitalart

Today @erik_de_bree studio! For the upcoming exhibition we visited and filmed an interview with Erik de Bree at his studio in Haarlem. Stay tuned to find out what he has to say… #artgallery #artgalleryamsterdam #artist #artistinterview #upcomingexhibition

Torch Gallery at Art Island Torch Gallery presents a focused group presentation bringing together three distinct artistic voices. Popel Coumou shows a selection of unique works in which photographic images are cut, folded and constructed into three-dimensional objects — architectural light rendered as physical form, each piece existing as a singular sculpture. Alongside her, Norwegian painter Line Gulsett presents large, gestural paintings that draw on art historical figuration while dissolving it into explosive colour and movement — vivid, emotionally charged canvases that resist easy resolution. Completing the booth, Cuban artist Liset Castillo introduces her pigment works — slender bars of compressed mineral pigment that grade seamlessly from one colour to another, works rooted in materiality, light and the quiet poetry of pure colour. Together, the three practices form a conversation around image-making, materiality, and the physicality of the artwork itself — an invitation to slow down and look closely. 1) Line Gulsett 2) Popel Coumou 3) Liset Castillo @torchgallery @linegulsett @popelcoumou @lisetcastillo.artist

Currently on view ‚Entangled Agency: Where Biology Meets Art‘ with works by Lars van Vianen! #artgallery #artgalleryamsterdam #artinamsterdam #artexhibition

Exhibition opening today Entangled Agency: Where Biology Meets Art A collaboration between TORCH & SCAPE AGENCY -- POSSE 2024 Lars van Vianen (Scape Agency) Chris Kievid (Interactivist) Jim van Hekke (Scape Agency) Latent Diffusion Model 4 to 10 × 2160 × 3840 px IPS panels ± 4000 × 4000 mm footprint

We are pleased to announce the opening this coming Saturday. 18 April 4 - 7 PM In a world where the lines between nature, technology, and humanity are blurring, TORCH presents a collaboration that explores the patterns of how we live, think, and interact as our world changes rapidly around us. It's about moving beyond just new gadgets and seeing the core shifts in our society and humanity. By partnering with SCAPE AGENCY, a studio at the leading edge of synthetic intelligence and interactive technology. For decades, TORCH has represented artists who challenge our ideas of identity and the "designed human." Today, that vision finds its technical heartbeat in the work of Lars van Vianen and the SCAPE collective. #larsvanvianen #scape.agency #torchgallery

Perception by @popelcoumou is extended for 1 week. Open today until Saturday the 4th of April.

Perception Until 28 March Popel Coumou @popelcoumou Torch Gallery, Amsterdam @torchgallery This exhibition at Amsterdam’s Torch Gallery is on for just two more days. I had to share it before it ends. Such an amazing exhibition that creates a world that plays to our minds using paper, plexi, aluminium, and light. Popel Coumou is an artist who lives in Amsterdam; she creates artworks by layering the material. I think I love the contradiction; looking so organised and geometrically neat, it also has a childishly playful side. I loved seeing myself with an open mouth, suspended in space and time, unable to think of anything other than being surrounded by form and colour. (Not even the cool guy in his morning robe, standing at his doorway with a cup of coffee, facing the beautiful canal scene I had passed on my way to the gallery that morning) She creates an entire world, yet leaves space for our perception to fill in the gaps. In the exhibition, Popel investigates the boundary between abstract form and spatial experience. It feels like an impromptu piece of music that you can somehow hum along to. I love the way she blurs the borders between sculpture and framed work. She creates tactile forms using materials such as three-dimensional folded cardboard and layered plexiglass. For this show, she is also using aluminium. “By printing directly onto aluminium, water-cutting the lines, and folding them by hand, she creates works with a distinct tactility.” One of her works, for the first time, is a stand-alone sculpture. She borrows her colours from the sky, deepening them through light and illusion. As someone who lives in a city where the sky’s daily behaviour shapes our mood, this feels especially meaningful to me.

Solo presentation with 3 series by TINKEBELL. Opens today.

This week's last chance to see Perception, by Popel Coumou. Thursday to Saturday 12 - 6 pm

On view @torchgallery till March 28th March 21st I will be in the gallery from 12:00 - 18:00 to show you around Above: 3 collages Size: 29 x 18 cm framed in wooden frame with Art Glass. Image 1 and 2: collage of photographs of the sky and museum board. Image 3: folded museum board #contemporaryphotography #art #popelcoumou #torchgallery