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For Art Antwerp 2021 Dürst Britt & Mayhew is proud to present a solo exhibition by Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong (1939).

The presentation focuses on works from the 1990s and specifically on works made on sailcloth and panel. Working on sailcloth started with a commission for a branch of the Nederlandse Bank in Drachten in Friesland in 1992. De Jong was fascinated by the many shipyards in the area, where skûtsjes were built and thus she came across various discarded pieces of sailcloth. For the bank she made a partition in the middle of the office between the cashiers and the main lobby …