I Need Another Artwork Like I
Need a Hole in My Head, 2010
Myth of Depth/ Debt/ Death
Stretchers, canvas, mountings
22 x 27 x
The work is made out of 12 perforated prefabricated canvases,
put together by glue and mountings. The title alludes specifically to the
painting Myth of Depth (1984) by Mark Tansey and in
general to the idea of an artworks conceptual depth. The title pun
depth/debt/death encourages a wider reading touching economic as well as
existential issues.
Walk-through-Painting
Stretcher parts, oil on canvas, suspension
175 x
The work is a canvas with a big hole suspended in
between two stretcher-parts, free-hanging from the ceiling a few centimetres above
the floor. The size ratio makes it possible to walk through the canvas. The
onlooker is hence encouraged to literally enter the work – but in so doing only
achieves his own immediate exit. One might thereafter be affected by the
illusionary obsession of having to leap back again to avoid remaining within -
or outside.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stretcher parts, oil on canvas, mountings
219 x 33 x
The work consists of 3 painted and perforated prefabricated
canvases mounted on stretcher parts that together constitute an abstracted
body. The title is taken from James Joyce's modern classic concerning the
artist's intellectual awakening. The work might otherwise be associated to
Giacometti’s iconographic Tall Figure sculptures. That the artist's head is
represented by a series of holes can be seen as a statement of art's power of
disillusion, or even the young artist's boundless (and necessary) naivety.