In this exhibition, Robert Vellekoop takes a new artistic path with his form-like object paintings. It is no longer the picture content alone, in the format of the rectangular picture, but the relationships between the outer form and the content that now play a central role. The art-historical term "shaped canvas" used for this is extended by a special form of still life and landscape painting. Robert Vellekoop's works tread a fine line between their presence as objects and their classical attribution as windows to an imaginary, illusory world. Vases, plants, abstract forms on strangely shadowy pedestals and tables merge and intertwine with the background, take on a haptic presence or are indicated with simple gestural brushstrokes. In works such as "Air" or "Tension", the sky is literally transformed into a firmament, the proverbial canopy, by means of an arched or concave pictorial form. 
A floating state is maintained in that conventional reference points of perception do not apply and the pictorial spaces deliberately elude fixed attribution. Interior and exterior space, near and far, naturalistic or graphic, Vellekoop's works play with the categories of localization. The compositions are created using acrylic, oil and spray paint, which depict the pictorial objects and surfaces with very different speeds and finishes. Finely and elaborately prepared, glazed areas of color are juxtaposed with objects sprayed in seconds or outlines of vessels, flowers or plants thrown into the paint with a brush. The works come together in fragments, their strength is created by bringing together the most diverse moments, materials and forms. They are pictorial objects that are not content to merely deprive the picture of its illusory quality and declare it a mere object, but rather engage in a balancing act in which the illusion retains its place.