About the artist:

Ardy Strüwer was born in Batavia on Java for more than 60 years ago and came as the age of ten to Holland. His great interest in art led him to the Royal Art Academy in The Hague. Eventually he moved to Sweden for further studies at the Royal Academy of Arts, Graphic Department in Stockholm. In Paris he worked in the famous graphic studio Clot, Bramsen & Georges, and in New York at similarly prestigious The American Atelier. Since 1986, Ardy living in France. "I lived in Sweden for thirty years, but found more and more how the climate made it harder for me to paint. I missed the light too much and the winters were too long." Being a painter is to act as optical writer, says Ardy. To paint is to speak eye language, and to regard the painting is to read the form and color. One can look at art with three eyes, his own and the heart. Ardy paints in explosive colors, often surreal style of women's faces that frequent motif. His art is a tribute to the origin of life, woman. Ardy's imagery is full of oriental splendor, women's obsession with color and surreal dreams. It is shimmering and beautiful houses, while layers of magic and madness. Internationally, Ardy has become a big name and he has had exhibitions in Europe and USA. He is represented in many private collections and museums, including Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Gemeente Museum in The Hague and Peter Stuyvesant Collection. Strüwers art, paintings as well as lithographs, are characterized by a colorful expressivity, often in surreal style, with the woman - who he sees as the origin of life - and the female body as a recurrent motif image; Strüwer have used words like "sensual surrealism" and "post-modern flower power "when describing it. [2] [3] His art is represented in many private collections and public museums, such as Peter Stuyvesant Collection, museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and the Gemeente museum in The Hague. [1] in recent years, Strüwer also gained popularity as a glass artist. [4] During the 1960s and 1970s and became Strüwer a household name in Swedish television, among others, together with Lasse Åberg, when they did comedy program "Lösnäsan" and he has participated in Sweden's contribution at the international Montreux Festival. Strüwer played in youth football at the elite level in the Netherlands FC Den Haag.