Kreeft

‘I also became enchanted by the striking vitality in his oeuvre. It is a passion to create – more evident in his drawings than his paintings – and perhaps nothing other than a passion to be, repeatedly to reach an elevated state of being. A fondness for black humour lends Andriesse’s work other dimensions. You can suffer the tragedy of the human condition or joke about it – and it is the latter, with a liberal sprinkling of youthful recklessness, that Erik Andriesse did. I also love the sensuality in his work. A sensuality that not only resonates in the flowers he often portrayed with such beauty and daring, but is equally evident in the skulls and animal skeletons. Ultimately, it is the vehement and virtuoso movements of his drawing hand that yield an elegant gratification. At their best, they transport you to the sublime’
(O. de Jong on the occasion of the exhibition Erik Andriesse, Lust for Life, Amsterdam, De Expeditie, 2010).