Lamentation Painting

In 2019 I received a scholarship from the Evangelist Church, the result of which should become a solo exhibition in an evangelist church in 2020. Since the church was architectonically a gothic church, I decided to refer to the tradition of Christian altarpieces as well as to sacral realism of the Late Medieval and the Renaissance periods in my work for the exhibition. This canvas is a triptych (consisting of three individual panels which are assembled together when on display) based on the famous artwork by Andrea Mantegna (approx. 1490) called Lamentation. For his time, the extreme perspective that he had chosen for the representation of the human body is remarkable. I picked just one detail out of his small-sized masterpiece - the crotch area of the Dead - and enlarged it to the extremes. While adopting the realistic style of Mantegnas painting I also wanted to achive the abstraction of the subject. So viewers who are not familiar with Mantegnas painting may not at first sight recognise the subject of my painting. It might look as a landscape or a study painting of a cloth or sheet. To me this painting is all about painting - the oscillation between the flatness (of the canvas) and the 3-dimensionality (of the subject). You can display this artwork as a normal painting on the wall or hang it in a space (as in the exhibition). Hardware to mount the pieces together is included. For the transport I recommend to keep the three pieces separately.