Paintings
Time circle II
After Time circle this one followed. Quite otherwise more mythical and mysterious. In this case my own association was at least that with Stonehenge. Are the backrests moving away from the seats or towards them?
Everything is aimed at the center of the circle where the bright light source is located. What’s up there?
New Generation
Commission
(Not for sale)
And then a descendant presents itself. It will be the radiant center of what is now called the family. With traits of both parents that speaks.
Chair
Commission
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What do you give as a present when your other half gets a chair? Of course a chair. It was up to me to fix it. An enormous amount of knowledge needs to find shelter. Can’t the seat also be seen as the roof of a chair? Then all that knowledge can accumulate under that roof or brain pan. Obviously, in such a position, that knowledge must also be shared from time to time and this is also provided for.
Circle time
The first time circle. During an exhibition I saw the work Four windows van Jan Dibbets again. The dynamic that a perspective figure like a parallelogram or an ellipse can get by isolating it like Dibbets does, that was also what I had in mind. I set my goal to place a circle of chairs in such a way that they become degenerate. The environment is just as ambiguous as the shapes themselves. Space? Water? Mirroring? Movement?
Because of the cyclical I decided to use 12 chair backs, later when I checked the dictionary time circle turned out to exist as a word in astronomy.
Duet I
Actually, I literally found these schoolchairs on a sunny day somewhere in a gallery. So in my oeuvre this is actually a bit of an outsider because ‘only’ directly more or less made from observation. See also other duets such as Duet II and Duet III and certainly also the Pas de Deux series.
Tower of Babel
The first Tower in three-point perspective, seats as far as the eye can see. Comprehensive as you would expect from such a mythical construction. See also the successors Tower of Babel II, III.
Or the works in which I have displayed the interior such as Babel interior and Babel interior II and Babel II, but also Arena.
Three chairs II
A chair is (still) standing upright in a somewhat apocalyptic atmosphere. Flying around the number of parts corresponding to two other seats. What is happening here? This is a second elaboration of this idea, see for the other Three chairs.
Shadowdancing
A kind of pattern of chairs from above, each with its own shadow, which is logical but equally transparent, each with its own light source at its own height. Unique because of your shadow and not by yourself?
This ‘try-out’ turned out to be the prelude to a series with Shadowdancing II and III.
Three chairs
A chair stands in a desolate landscape between parts of two other chairs, partly flying or floating. What happening here?
To show this premise at a different time and from a different point of view: Three chairs II.
The last supper
After painting a large Meal of Friends twice, the most mythical dinner almost automatically arises: the last supper. And then you cannot ignore Leonardo da Vinci’s version, so I used that as a base for the composition.
Judas has done what was meant to be, and here’s the thing, starting with the sacred chair, and thanks to the halo glow, the chairs cast their dramatic shadows forward. I gratefully exploit that glow in The last supper II, where it helps the viewer to identify the different characters.
Collier
In fact, this is a kind of anamorphosis of an earlier work Musical chairs from 1998. The distortion that this entails transformed it visually, at least from ordinary chairs to more elegant ornaments. The choice of color and contrast makes it all a bit more mysterious.
The blue planet
The chair universe has an unprecedented wealth of varieties and colors. It also offers a variety of mutual relationships and cross connections. Chairs from my own past and daily life and inaccessible chairs because they are rare and precious and vulnerable. However, in three dimensions on the plane there are few limitations.
Droste effect
The effect named after the Dutch chocolate manufacturer Droste, the droste effect, immediately occurred when I made this watercolor.
Conspiracy II
Four chairs riveted together, conspired with their shadows thrown menacingly forward.
Also take a look at Conspiracy IV, the pencil drawing Circle and Brotherhood.
Meal of friends
After primarily using my own trusted chair, ‘strangers’ gradually emerged. In the beginning, directly linked to a chair made or depicted by another artist, such as by Van Gogh, Duchamps and Magritte, especially because I had used them in earlier works. To invite all these ‘friends’ to a joint meal, that seemed like something.