Kees Spermon - Etching/Aquatint, title "Factory".

Although he preferred drawing and graphic work, shortly after his academy training in Rotterdam in the early seventies he was awarded the Royal subsidy for free painting twice. His work is now included in the collections of the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum and the Haags- and Arnhems Gemeentemuseum.

The human figure keeps returning to Spermon's drawings, graphics and paintings. In his earlier prints, figures emerge from a dense web of nervous lines. At any moment, they can disappear again like a strange coincidence of scratches into their identically drawn background. A background that was not allowed to be there, because Spermon wanted to banish illusions of space or horizon.

Later, in pastel-tinted paintings, two or three elongated figures appear just as unobtrusively. They stare straight ahead, walk seriously up a slope or are about to make love. These anonymous passers-by have everything and at the same time nothing to do with each other. Their fate is the same, only the hesitant walk towards it differs.

Although he preferred drawing and graphic work, shortly after his academy training in Rotterdam in the early seventies he was awarded the Royal subsidy for free painting twice. His work is now included in the collections of the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum and the Haags- and Arnhems Gemeentemuseum.
The human figure keeps returning to Spermon's drawings, graphics and paintings. In his earlier prints, figures emerge from a dense web of nervous lines. At any moment, they can disappear again like a strange coincidence of scratches into their identically drawn background. A background that was not allowed to be there, because Spermon wanted to banish illusions of space or horizon.
Later, in pastel-tinted paintings, two or three elongated figures appear just as unobtrusively. They stare straight ahead, walk seriously up a slope or are about to make love. These anonymous passers-by have everything and at the same time nothing to do with each other. Their fate is the same, only the hesitant walk towards it differs.