2026
Lucrezia’s looks
Those who know my oeuvre have long been familiar with portraits of chairs depicting only the backrest, just as with people, only the head and sometimes part of the upper body is depicted. It began in 2012 with Portraits 1 through 9. Many more followed, which can be found on this website, for example, Portrait 11 or Portrait 46. Naturally, I’ve also started playing with this portrait theme again. A good example is Pinocchio or Pinocchio III. And in this light I can’t leave Look unmentioned. And that’s mainly due to the intervention I made in this work. It’s up to the viewer to figure that out. It works best face-to-face with the work (which is true for most of my works, by the way).
Back up-zelfportret
Many chairs made during the Baroque period, mostly for the more luxurious palaces, have a ‘plank’ in the backrest sawn into Baroque shapes. Luxuriant curls and curves. As is often the case, I was actually looking for something different, but while leafing through the book “Möbelstile,” my eye fell on these Baroque armrests. I immediately thought of papercut silhouettes. The step to portraits isn’t so big then. What portrait? A self-portrait!