October 20th, 2025 — The Tyburn Foundation presented Quiet Grounds, a group exhibition held from October 17th to 22nd at PIASA during Art Basel Paris, celebrating work from residencies across Italy and Zimbabwe in spring and summer 2025. The show featured new paintings by Driaan Claassen (CRF 2025) made in his studio, Gufo, at Civitella. It was there that Driaan expanded his exploration of consciousness and the human psyche, venturing beyond sculpture into painting for the first time, building on his engagement with materiality, form and emotional resonance. Programs Assistant Greta Caseti visited the exhibition on October 20th and connected these works—expanses of layered colors punctuated with sketch-like lines and dripping pigment, creating tension between fluid movement and sharp, abstracted forms—to the shapes seen in Driaan’s sculpture.
