Convento São Francisco de Mértola
Geraldine Zwanikken
She calls here latest work ‘Light Works’. As she has a special technique to bring translucent colours onto polyester sheet material, the colours transform under the influence of day, and artificial light. Playful lines that fade into movement and free the figuration from the polyester background. ‘Light Works’ is a symbioses between unsuspected spirituality and raw mater.
Geraldine Zwanikken started here career as a classical dancer at the Dutch National Ballet company. She decided to develop here own dance language and produce here own solo dance/performance programs with titles as ‘Enroulement’ and ‘Fragility Cycles’.
As she left Holland together with here husband and photographer Kees Zwanikken to rebuild the Convento from its ruins, she continued to create theatre productions. The visual aspect of here performances became a focal point in the work. Paintings and objects she started making were shown successfully in galleries in Portugal, Holland, Germany and the U.S.
