Paulus de Groot
b 1977
Born into a family of Dutch artists, Paulus de Groot (born 1977) began his artistic practice at Atelier Herenplaats, a Rotterdam studio and gallery, which champions artists with developmental disabilities.
De Groot’s thick and extremely tactile paintings are graphic in more ways than one. They depict the artist’s interior life of fear and desire, functioning as an erotic dream-diary as well as a (hopeful) autobiography. The content can be extreme, verging on the pornographic; yet the visual technique is considered, immediate, and prone to abstraction. It is as if the paint almost steps out of the canvas.
De Groot’s work has been exhibited internationally at Kunsthal Rotterdam (2016) and Dr. Guislain Museum, Gent (2018), as well as The Museum of Everything, London (2011, 2016). Collections include Musée d’Art Differencie, Belgium and STOARC Collection, Sydney.
