At STUDIO CHARLOTTE, artist Charlotte Caspers (born 1979) shares her fascination with the landscape, nature, and natural materials—wood, pigments, gold leaf—with visitors. Most people know Caspers as an expert on the popular TV program “Het Geheim van de Meester” (The Master’s Secret) with Jasper Krabbé. In it, she meticulously recreates masterpieces, but she rarely shows the art she creates herself. Two rooms in the museum’s old building will serve as her intimate studio.
Studio Charlotte
In the studio with Charlotte Caspers
Villa
Experiments with paper, pigment, and gold leaf
Caspers studied art history and painting restoration, but it could just as easily have been physics or biology. With an almost microscopic interest, she studies nature and dissects the processes that occur there. In paintings and collages, but also in experiments, trials, and captions, she reports on her research, which seems never-ending. Her drive to understand things translates one moment into a hyperrealistically painted twig, the next into the total abstraction of single colored planes. Everything reflects her fascination with natural materials, their textures, and their behavior over time. Scraps of 17th-century paper or the panel of an old choir stall are given a second life by Caspers, with nature providing the necessary pigments and materials. She lives and works in Bergen, practically next to the forest where she finds her raw materials.
Artworks
Charlotte Caspers
Compositie in herfstkleuren
2017
Charlotte Caspers
Herfst aan duinrand
2017
