For Art Antwerp, Mieke van Schaijk presents an installation of new paintings by Gijs Milius: four kindred vistas unfolding in the borderland between figuration and abstraction. Although their simplicity may at first appear caricatural, the layered colour and light associations manage to draw us into the suggested landscapes: wide meadows beneath skies that sometimes contain shapes which—with a little imagination—resemble clouds. On the walls, the paintings become windows; from within the booth, we look out onto a wide emptiness.
Gijs Milius, NL 1985, lives in Brussels. He has previously exhibited in o.a.: SMAK, M HKA, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Etablissement d’en face, biennale de Louvain-La-Neuve, Nosbaum Reding
