“Character-cocoons - Hairy Black-BB” Painting

The recent paintings of Dutch-born artist, Jan Wisse (1955), for their composition and use of light, show his affection for the Golden Age painters, such as Vermeer and Rubens, but also for contemporary artists like Neo Rauch, Matthias Weischer and Eric Thor Sandberg. ______________________________________ Jan Wisse’s paintings combine a strong evocative content of imaginative worlds, mastering composition and painterly exploration. ‘Muldenzentrale11’ (2017), for instance, shows a waste skip, some curious deer, and two naked slaving men pulling a rope. ________________________________ “I like to give the rather dreary datum of ‘la condition humaine’, - a leading concept in my paintings - a somewhat relativizing humorous twist or to turn it into an apparent unreality.” _________ __________ _________