Painting by van den hooven 4 Artworks Sold

Disparate Entities

Watercolour, Paper, Framed by Artist

93cm (W) x 63cm (H) x 3cm (D)

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Framed by Artist

A$690

Arrives 19–21 Sep

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Artwork Description

Disparate Entities is a strikingly imaginative abstract composition that fuses anatomical motifs with surrealist abstraction. The piece is a vibrant tapestry of color and form, where human biology is reinterpreted through a kaleidoscopic lens. Dominated by bold hues—crimson, cerulean, yellow, and fuchsia—each element is outlined in assertive black, lending the work a stained-glass-like clarity and intensity.

On the left, a large, vividly rendered eye with red lashes and a blue iris gazes outward, encased in a braided structure suggestive of hair or neural pathways. Above it, a pink and red brain-like form unfurls in intricate folds, evoking cognition and consciousness. The central area is a dense interplay of biomorphic shapes: a red heart-like figure, brain, lungs and other ambiguous anatomical references that pulse with symbolic energy.

To the right, a screaming mouth, menacing yet mesmerizing. Beneath it, two brown, kidney-shaped forms are linked by sinuous lines, reinforcing the theme of internal systems and connectivity.

The background is a subdued patchwork of trapezoidal forms in grays, browns, and beiges, providing a neutral stage that allows the saturated foreground elements to vibrate with intensity. The composition is both chaotic and controlled, inviting viewers to explore the tension between the organic and the abstract, the known and the imagined.

This artwork challenges the viewer to consider the body not as a clinical diagram but as a site of emotion, memory, and surreal transformation. It blurs the boundaries between science and symbolism, anatomy and art, creating a visual language that is at once cerebral and visceral. The result is a compelling meditation on the inner workings of both the human form and the human psyche.

Artist Bio

van den hooven is an emerging Australian abstract cubist artist whose style is instantly recognisable for its quintessential features: bold lines, consistent colour palette and his symbolic logo-like depiction of facial features, bodily organs and other familiar objects.

His compositions are intentionally cluttered and contradictory, reflecting the chaos of modern life through a unique visual language that fuses the internal with the external, the animate with the inanimate, the natural with the technological.

Born into a lineage steeped in creativity, van den hooven’s artistic roots trace back to his grandfather Abraham Leendert van den Hooven, a Dutch sailor-turned-self-taught artist who settled in Australia in the late 1950s. His mother, Margarita Rosa, also pursued fine art, nurturing a household where creativity could flourish.

Coming from a science research background, van den hooven’s own journey into art was reignited after completing diplomas in graphic design (2016) and illustration (2018).

His work often explores themes of consumption, identity, internal conflict using familiar and quintessential objects—facial features, organs, androids, tentacles, surveillance cameras, crustaceans, fish, and more—to challenge viewers’ perceptions of necessity versus excess.

Looking forward, van den hooven is holding his inaugural solo art exhibition at the Clyde Gallery, Bay Pavilions Art+Aquatic centre, Batemans Bay, in August 2025.

Commissions

van's studio is in Moruya