Ad Schouten - Large pop art Silkscreen - gain & lose - very small edition (25) - signed

• 'After a total of five people, including a former city curator, insisted on going there to look, I bought this series of self-portraits, large in size, gouache on paper. Ruthless and full of self-loathing, the artist suspiciously spies on himself. Beastly how he depicts himself, beautifully painted too, the flat ground around his face is of a brutal and rough quality. Guaranteed not part of the Dutch collection until now, but now to start with it is part of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Thank you Rotterdam for such a good artist.'

Ad Schouten was a painter, a true painter. When he graduated cum laude from the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts, painting department, in 1968, he won the Drempel Prize for the best graduate of his year. In those years, painting was out of fashion. Conceptual artists were in charge. With four classmates from the academy, he founded the collective UNI.d2. “That was just the way it was in 1968. Back then, you didn't paint to your own honor and glory, so you joined a collective,” he explained in an interview in 20063. The collective participated in the International Youth Biennial in Paris in 1971. For a number of years, they worked together on various art projects in Rotterdam, the city where Ad would live and work his entire life.
(source: PuntKomma)