I Need
Another Artwork Like I Need a Hole in My Head:
- Myth of
Depth/ Debt/ Death
-
Walk-through-Painting
- Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man
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.