Daan van Golden (Dutch, b. 1936)

Since the mid 1960's Daan van Golden has worked on an oeuvre re-using existing images. During a stay in Tokyo from 1963-65 he started copying Japanese wrapping paper, thus painting a series of carefully executed geometrical patterns and flower motives. Van Golden experienced the precision of copying as a restful, meditative occupation. In those years Van Golden starts using wall and wrapping paper, leaving out the stage of copying, framing the paper itself, thus using the existing image in a new context: his so called 'relativerend realisme'. (Cor Blok (red.), Nederlandse Kunst vanaf 1900, Utrecht 1994, p. 188- 189)