Rinus Van de Velde: The Dinner

Hetzler | Marfa is pleased to announce The Dinner, a solo exhibition of new works by Rinus Van de Velde, for the gallery’s annual presentation in Marfa, Texas. Bringing together oil pastels, charcoals, sculpture, and film, the exhibition presents the most comprehensive overview of Van de Velde’s practice in the US to date.

Across his oeuvre, Van de Velde explores the porous boundaries between reality and imagination, viewing them not as opposing forces but rather as intimately connected. A self-proclaimed ‘armchair voyager’, Van de Velde interweaves elements of truth and fantasy to narrate his own fictional autobiography from the comfort of his studio. Featuring a selection of oil pastels in a ‘salon-style’ display, alongside the artist’s charcoal paintings, sculptures, and two films, The Dinner opens a new chapter of the artist’s fictional world. The exhibition centres around an imagined gallery dinner, which brings together an eclectic gathering of artists and cultural figures, both living and deceased, where playful and reflective conversations unfold, and humour, scrutiny, reality and illusion become inextricably entwined.