The experience was a personal success: the external impulses that had fed him in China now came from within. Enabling himself to explore whether he could find creative freedom if he imposes circumstances like social isolation, loneliness and powerlessness.
Knee deep trial#
NO GOOD CAN COME OF THIS was devised as a trial wherein the artist confined himself in a vacant house on the Kinkerstraat for a month. This resulted in a new experiment during his solo exhibition in the beginning of 2016. Occasionally Kavelaars returned to the Netherlands, trying but failing to recreate that same creative energy he experienced in Shanghai. The newfound inspiration was a strong factor that made him decide to stay in Shanghai after the exhibition, and he has been living and working from China ever since. His work became stronger, his oeuvre found a focus and he became more and more conscious of his process. Kavelaars’ paintings visibly manifested a new direction. From the first brush he experienced a creative energy he had previously not been able to channel, an endless source of inspiration that noticeably changed the works he created, and would even drastically change his life. When No Man’s Art Gallery invited Kavelaars the to join him for an exhibition in Shanghai in 2013, he decided to take the opportunity to work in a Shanghai studio for two months prior to the exhibition there.
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