Traveling South Painting

Jacques Tange is educated at the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam. Characteristics of his development as an artist are continuity, and the repeating process of a deeper evaluation. Inspired by the illuminated handwritings of the Middle Ages, he uses his own imagination and humour in present-day themes. The ornamentation and his typical use of bright colours are applied with the use of archetypes and metaphors. What's shown to us is a remarkably closed world. The use of intimate, soft light creates a characteristic atmosphere. His compositions are built up like a piece of music, with repeating images and rhythm in a certain lay-out. Recognizable themes regularly return in his artistic work about the relationship between man and woman. The urban jungle and the isolation of the human being. Tange has participated in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe, and has been chosen as the artist of the year, in the Artist of the Year Elections 2005/06 in the Netherlands.