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Young Girl From the Back 2013 Acrylic on hardboard 115x115cm

  In the foreground you can see a young girl with long blonde hair walking inside the canvas. This night scene occurs on a deserted lane with plane trees. A light source shines on the hair of th girl and makes her sweater glare in a bright orange. A bit further, some cars are hardly visible. The facades of the houses are also only slightly suggested. The pruissian blue sky spreads a cool light on the rest of the environment and transforms the dark trees into amorphous pilars. This creates a similar mysterious atmosphere that you can find in the works of Paul Delvaux. But differently from what you can find in the works of Delvaux, the surreality doesn’t get the empahsis (no strange combinations of antique and contemporary elements, nor (half)naked female figures). The focus is on the solitude and isolation, on the threatening danger and the vulnerability of the girl, alone on a nightly lane. It is just like she is heading into a dark forest and danger is lying behind every tree.