A roundup of the best shows on during Amsterdam Art Weekend 2016
Gabriela Acha for Frieze Critic's Guide 2016
Jannis Marwitz, ‘The year is over now’
Marwan
29 November – 30 December
Seemingly abstract, Jannis Marwitz’s paintings contain a host of entangled bodies, floating faces and symbols associated with plagues and battles. The masks with long beaks once worn by plague doctors to ward off airborne infection, and depicted in several works in this show, were also the source material for a playful commedia dell’arte costume, ‘Medico della Peste’. In another painting, interlaced human bodies are apparently caught in a violent battle. The combatants’ costumes hint at a Roman conquest. Each work in the exhibition is dominated by a melancholic blue and the title of this winter show sums up the prevailing mood of disenchantment: this strange year is indeed over now.