Fons Haagmans, Abre Folie, 2003, acryl op linnen, 200 x 200 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij, Amsterdam. Photography Courtesy Galerie Onrust Amsterdam

MAASTRICHT, NETHERLANDS.- The Bonnefantenmuseum presents Fons Haagmans - Lost Highway, on view through May 6, 2007. Fons Haagmans (1948, Schinnen) is one of today’s most important artists of the Netherlands. As a painter, he searches for the limits of the medium in a very individual way. After a very expressionist period, he eventually arrived at a minimalist and decorative approach in the eighties. He uses stencils cut out of cardboard for his own interpretation of a range of mainly ‘forgotten’ motifs. His number paintings, for instance, refer to the series from the Jewish Cabbala. Other motifs come from heraldry or from the world of country music... la suite sur http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19412