Lily Stoke Gallery's pink space

Amsterdam's permanent artist Lily van der Stokker's solo show "Huh" is being exhibited at the Koenig & Clinton Gallery in New York.

This exhibition is the second solo exhibition held by Lily van de Stoke at the Koenig & Clinton Gallery. In this exhibition, artists broke the restrictions of specific objects and forms, and all created a new batch of installation works in pink. Lily explored the issues of beauty, ugliness, optimism, emptiness and cheapness in the exhibition.

Lily van der Stok was born in 1954. In the early 1990s, her works began to attract wide attention and began to be exhibited in important institutions such as the Pompidou Center, Van Abbe Museum, Walker Art Center. Her works are diverse in color and bold, with a childish and childlike sense of painting. These works relate to love, family and daily life. The seemingly simple lines and graphics actually contain profound social connotations and meanings. Her works challenge the concepts of "magnificence," "seriousness," and "dignity." She inherits feminist heritage and is uniquely decorative and feminine.

The theme of her solo exhibition is “ha”, which is a tone of words, expressing contempt, doubt or surprise. Artist Lily said: "Ha's solo exhibition about stupidity, painting, body, children, and body is also about roundness, intimacy, and softness. The works on display at this time are very few women and sweet, but also cheap and pink. The colors give people a visual sense of joy.” Artists use pink as a single color to form different shapes and patterns, and create a fairy-tale dream space in a combination of plane and three-dimensional. At the same time, this space is also cheap. Gaudy seems to be an expression of the artist's anti-market anti-business. In such a dream of pink construction, the viewer can temporarily let go of all the troubles and immersions in the pink "Zen".

On the wall of the exhibition is a pink billboard with the words “only screaming old woman/saleless goods”, which seems to challenge the authoritative structure of the art world and ridicule those art goods that are made in vain. In this exhibition, Lily was inspired by her pink pajamas. In the exhibition, she used this pattern on all installations and added speech bubbles to write sentences in girls' fonts. . These sentences are all very warm and they seem to strike the depths of people's hearts: "It's nice to be with you," "Have a good time around you," and "We are all the same."

The sculpture-like objects extend from the wall to form a three-dimensional space. The specially-made furniture highlights the meaning of decoration and feminine charm, and gives the viewer a warm and warm sense of home. In the middle of the exhibition hall there are two erected objects, one like three cartons stacked one inside and the other using two cartons. The cartons were painted pink and painted with graffiti. These two objects were like two square strawberry ice creams that were melting. Behind these two objects is a small shelf that is nailed to the wall. The shelf is also decorated with a pink pattern, and a roll of toilet paper is placed on each shelf. In the lower left corner of the shelf is the name of this piece, "Nothing."

Artist Lily added: "Pink has always been seen as a vulgar representative, and for me an empty pink space is extremely comfortable. It is like being back in the mother and lying in bed. It is a Ideal utopia away from ambition and strife. This pink space represents pleasure, leisure and entertainment."