M HKA HISTORY

Mees’s work is systemic, yet the system emerges from within the work itself. The precision of his oeuvre — with interlocking elements from painting, sculpture, and performance, in which colour, texture, and the experience of space are paramount — is of an order that resists verbal definition. In the 1980s, Mees creates works with cut-out pieces of coloured paper, pinned against the wall or another surface like painterly gestures, forming a kind of ‘lost spaces’.

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