VIEW IN MY ROOM
Netherlands
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 27.6 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in
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The two figures in this painting are staring at a little house under a bell jar. On the floor lies a piece of paper with a graph of the formula E = 1 / t, which refers to the beginning of creation, the big bang, when all energy was concentrated in one tiny point. That one point, X, is visible in the graph, but also in the tile pattern on the floor. The cottage under the bell thus refers to the Big Bang, the beginning of time.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:27.6 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Netherlands
I went to art school in the late 1990's. after which I have been active as a painter Since about five years my painting has been taking a new direction about which I am very enthusiastic. The results of which I like to share with you on Saatchi. The figures in my work are absorbed in their own world. Often there is a link with science (mathematics, astronomy). They employ strange devices that resemble telescopes, musical instruments, typewriters or binoculars. They seem to investigate their world, diving into it and trying to make sense of it. Not unlike the beholder of the paintings that capture them. Often they only possess one eye and in that respect almost all of them are cyclops. So, in a sense they are handicapped, but they try to overcome that handicap by using technical aids. The “one eye only” is also a reference to the flatness of paintings that seems to represent (a) space: in order to see three dimensions one needs both eyes. The inspiration for my work is mainly formed by distractions from reality. The paintings are based on reproductions of other paintings. Non-heterogeneous elements are arranged next to each other in collages, which are then form the basis for a painting: a kind of "sampling" so to speak. A form of appropriation that is based on the realization that so much has been done before, that you can also create something new by pouring existing shapes into a new mould. My work, my paintings and collages, comes from a great interest in the artificial, and, in particular, two of its characteristics: the derivative and the fantastic. "derivative" means to me: Reality in a compressed (perhaps abstracted) form. For example, a reproduction of a painting or a map of a city. "fantastic" refers to the artificial fantasy. For example: the monster of Frankenstein or some paintings by the surrealists. This personal definition of artificiality forms the basis of my work. Sometimes accidental, sometimes fully conscious. Often in the execution of my paintings, often in the underlying themes or ideas.
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