AMSTERDAM .- The Merchant House opened its new season, dedicated to artistic collaborations, with an exhibition featuring longtime partners in life: leading Dutch sculptor Leo Vroegindeweij and painter Ruth Meijer. Vroegindeweij’s art—that is, its rare uniqueness—captures both the physicality of sculpture and the play of the literal and the metaphorical. Now taking center stage at the art gallery The Merchant House in Amsterdam (Vroegindeweij’s home base), the sculpture—its precarious configuration of large spherical mirrors on massive limestones unchanged—is both the same and something else. Meijer’s paintings are raw, immediate, and wryly observational, offering a grounded counterpoint to Vroegindeweij’s sculptural and conceptual ephemerality. Meijer’s vibrant, figurative, cartoon-inspired acrylics have earned her a devoted following among Dutch collectors, leading to exhibitions in the Netherlands and France.