JAN MULDER

​​​ABOUT JAN MULDER

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A poetic translation in paint of the condition humaine, which, as described by philosopher Octavio Paz, is characterised in our culture by being constantly torn between rationality and romanticism.” 

Jan Hein Sassen, former Conservator of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2016

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(…) To a remarkable degree, Mulder has mastered the full and exacting use of voids to express fulness. François Cheng, the historian of Chinese art, in his Empty and Full, makes the point when he writes , in reference to the space in Chinese paintings, ..it is emptiness that foster interaction, even transmutation, between heaven and earth, and thereby, between space and time.

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 Dominique Nahas, New York City ‘The Dark (Light) Inside the Light (Dark)’ 2005  

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In his abstract expressionism, I recognise the portrait of the dream ( … ) ​

H.J.A. Hofland, journalist | writer; ‘The Multiple Portrayal of the Dream’ Jan Mulder, Paintings and Watercolours 2006

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