Monumental Drawings
Faith – Love – Hope
Type: large format drawings
Material: acrylic on canvas paper (figueras 290 g/m2).
Theme: Inspired by sculptures found in the depths of the Aegean Sea in Greece.
Size: H250 cm x W140 cm
Hope and Faith were presented at the upper foyer of the Zuiderstrandtheater in The Hague in 2016.
A year in black & white
Made in 1998-99, this is a series of works on paper of large format. It was the continuation of a number of large black & white paintings made in 1998 that in their turn had followed several series of paintings where color was intense, bright and clean. Towards the end of this series, color started coming back, yet only to serve the black & white structure. Only one of these drawings is in green, connecting in this way the theme (a good spring) to the painting form.
Moving from bright color to b&w happened abruptly when I realized that b&w could contain the color and its tone with only the timbre altered. In b&w the paintings retained the color, yet without the fun nor the pleasure of the bright and shiny color. Things got serious and more dramatic, and less tidy and sane. Next to experimenting, for example with the double drawing, or expressing personal frustrations related to the specific life phase, through these drawings I tried to look beyond the painted image with a burning need to find the/a truth. Due to this quest I climbed the wall that stands between sanity and insanity and stayed up there for some time. And then I stepped down on this side, the quasi sane one, and set off to live a normal life. The quest for the truth came however with an answer, which I later incorporated into the series ‘Humanize the Code’ of 2021-22.
This gallery of images does not contain the whole series.
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