Rob Cerneus junior proudly shows the new exhibition Abandoned in his father’s old workshop in Monnickendam. Works by photographer Matthias Valewink are on display. He admired Cerneus’ work, but was also his neighbour.
New destination for old workshop Rob Cerneus, this weekend exhibition – NH Nieuws
“This is a familiar place to a lot of people,” says Rob. “But then as a place where images were made by my father, there was no exhibition here.” His father passed away over a year ago age 77† Now his workshop has been given a new purpose.
Viewers of NH Nieuws (then RTV NH) know Cerneus not only from his works, but also from the Van Zuks Dus program. For five years, Cerneüs went on the road with reporter Ron Flens for the Uit de Kunst section. He also visited artists, museums and galleries to make art known to a wider audience in a light-hearted way.
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Compilation Uit de Kunst with Rob Cerneus for Van Zuks – NH Nieuws
Rob junior is happy that he can now give new talent the opportunity to exhibit in the world of art. The fact that the photographer was also his father’s neighbor adds to it. “Every day he was confronted with my father’s knocking and tapping on a stone,” he says. “His son took the fragments home with him. They have also been given a place in the exhibition. Not physically, but they have been photographed.”
You can see it as just debris, but Cerneus shows that they mean more to him. “The debris is actually the sculptor’s notes.” He points: “Here you can see notes from my father, where he has drawn on the stone to determine what you take away. I actually see here the last choices he made in his life. It may sound a bit heavy, but those musings about what you take away and when a work is actually finished… no, these aren’t just pieces of stone to me.”
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