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Landscape of Becoming is a virtual solo exhibition by Christiaan van Ruyven, presenting a body of paintings in which landscape is not depicted, but felt. Rather than representing a specific place, these works open a space of transformation — an inner terrain shaped by colour, memory, movement and atmosphere.

Christiaan's paintings emerge through an intuitive and layered process. Gestures are built up, erased, repeated and reworked, allowing forms to appear and dissolve over time. What unfolds is not a fixed image, but a continuous state of becoming. The paintings resist closure: they hover between emergence and disappearance, between structure and flow.

Colour plays a central role in this process. It functions not as surface decoration, but as an active force that shapes space and perception. Deep blues suggest depth and inwardness, reds carry intensity and tension, while lighter tones introduce breath and openness. Colours collide, overlap and recede, creating rhythmic compositions

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