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'Beaucoup de petits mensonges pour une grande véritè' (Pierre Bonnard) 'All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie’ (Bob Dylan) The motives in my work relate to ideas about freedom and longing. Ideas that play a dominant role in our culture. The paintings refer to existing, iconic images, thereby dealing with the condition humaine. Herein romantical clichés, like the painting with the road to the horizon or a waiting sailboat, are not avoided but reviewed and reinterpreteted. The paintings can originate from film stills and tv screenings, but also from photographs that I make or find. Images can be clichéd or have a certain generality to be interesting as a source. Also broker photos or commercials with their idealisation and escapism are relevant in this perspective. In my work I'm interested in ambivalencies like hopeful expectation, optimism, together with suspense and the melancholy of forlorn dreams, lost ideals. The work has a romantic as well as an ironic side, is both reflective and lyrical. | ||
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