Edge of Time

Image © Eelco Maan About the ArtistEelco Maan's compositions in color can be compared to musical arrangements. Strong contrasts are blended exemplary and with a superb sense of harmony into a unity of subtle variances. His paintings possess a fascinating, mysterious quality which occupies a world of their own, an indescribable world which by far transcends our rational existence. His story begins when words are superfluous. Initially experimenting with figurative, Fauvism and surrealistic elements ‚Äì influenced by Klee, Mir√≥ and the CoBrA movement ‚Äì he gradually adopted a more austere and abstract style. Any ‚ÄòMoon-watcher' (his Dutch name ‚ÄòMaan' means ‚ÄòMoon' ) might very well recognize his attraction to the craquelure in early medieval art, to the savage Pollock eruptions and the obstinate color abstractions by Eug√®ne Brands and Willem de Kooning. Eelco Maan has been working as a visual artist since 1994. While his works are abstract, we recognize in them very real i