daan van golden

Youth is an art, 1992/2008

Daan van Golden appropriates images discovered in the world around him. His art draws on his own fascinations and 'out-of-the-ordinary' moments that occur in life. He finds beauty in the everyday and treats the mundane with integrity and respect, by showing us familiar things in a new way.

I caught the last day of van Golden's exhibition at Camden Arts Centre on Sunday which brought together paintings from the last thirty years along with photographs including a selection from the series Youth is an art, images of his daughter as she was growing up between 1978 and 1996. 

There is a captivating symbiosis between the meticulously worked paintings and the fleeting moments captured of his daughter as she grew. Van Golden is a gentle artist able to perceptively capture a sense of beauty in the everyday which is at once joyful and serene.