Richard Aldrich
MDD

Richard Aldrich plays in his work with images, text, painting, publications and music to evoke very different references and experiences. His paintings can be very expressive and colourful, but also minimalist and very determined, sometimes abstract then again figurative, occasionally painted with impasto brushstrokes, then flat without texture. After the many innovations painting underwent in the twentieth century, an artist like Richard Aldrich can have the freedom to radically paint as he likes and experiment without maintaining a so-called pioneering position on painting. Each exhibition may add new storylines or layers of meaning to his work.

For his exhibition at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Richard Aldrich made a selection of new and existing work. Some works are chosen intuitively while others are determined by the specific visual experiments he wants to develop in the exhibition space of Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. All the works together form an intuitive web of references alluding to art history, pop music and his biography.

An exhibition of Richard Aldrich never results from a thematic approach. Often it is only after making his choice that new relationships develop between the works themselves, or that some parallels become articulate.