Juan Carlos Stekelman Early Works (1965-1975) is the first exhibition of the Argentinean artist Juan Carlos Stekelman (Buenos Aires 1936) in the Netherlands. The exhibition at the country estate Frankendael in Amsterdam has been developed by British collectors Stuart and Johan Daniel Evans (father and son) and will show works by Stekelman from their private collection.

Juan Carlos Stekelman has been painting for over fifty years, working on paper in gouache and acrylic and, from around 1955 onwards, making small edition linocuts. Throughout his career, Stekelman has remained consistently faithful to the figurative in his oeuvre. His drawings, paintings and prints obsessively re-work the forms and expressions of both people and animals. These mysterious figures are created from dreams rather than recognizable models, embodying a psychological escape into another world of the imagination and often evoking both humour and horror in the same instant.