Misty Landscap with Village 2013 Acrylic on canvas 40x40cm
This small piece of art gives an impressionistic impression. In contrast to the other works in the series of haze paintings, no persons are present. At the horizon, the contours of a typical Flemish village can be noticed. The details of the landscape are lost in the veils of the haze floating above the meadows.
The pornographic education of Christopher Tracey Emin 2013 Acrylic, charcoal, pastel, resin on hardboard 120×88,5cm
Five poison green silhouettes of women are vogueing in suggestive poses. Two dark female shades on the foreground are framing the scene. This way, the whole scenery is giving a peepshow-impression and the spectator is pushed in the role of Peeping Tom. The background is mainly composed out of intense reddish colors and variants of grey and was applied with techniques like splashing, dripping and rubbing. In between the female figures texts are scribbled, which give the pane the look of a graffiti wall. The garish colors seem to stengthen the sloganesque messages.
I think i can recognize following text pieces:
Man in a long black coat 2013 Acryl op hardboard 130x70cm
A dark, shady figure is walking away from the viewer on a lonely street, heading for the misty horizon. The arid landscape is being dominated by ochres, sienna and earth shades. The strong shadows within this widescreen painting create an enduring atmoshpere, reminding of a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. And in this case, the Man in the Long Black Coat would be played – without any doubt- by Clint Eastwood.
(door P.O.)
Shiny people in a crowd of serial killers, mass murderers and spree killers 2014 Acrylic on hardboard 115cm x 115cm
This is a variant on the Shiny People in a Crowd theme. The entire painting is made out of grey, grey and more grey… except for the shiny people. While the greyness literally weeps from the walls, the Shiny People bring color to the painting. The Shiny People are icons for the Übermensch. They glare in the mass. This time the shiny people don’t appear in a coïncidal grey crowd. Here, they are surrounded by the greatest murderers of all times.
According to the artist, the viewer can recognize following criminals:
(door P.O.)
Shiny people in a crowd of serial killers, mass murderers and spree killers 2013 Acrylic on hardboard 115cm x 115cm
This is a variant on the Shiny People in a Crowd theme. The entire painting is made out of grey, grey and more grey… except for the shiny people. While the greyness literally weeps from the walls, the Shiny People bring color to the painting. The Shiny People are icons for the Übermensch. They glare in the mass. This time the shiny people don’t appear in a coïncidal grey crowd. Here, they are surrounded by the greatest murderers of all times.
According to the artist, the viewer can recognize following criminals:
(door P.O.)
Walking Nude 2013 Acrylic on canvas 50x50cm
Walking nude and The Runner are experiments in the series of hazy paintings. The mist is so extreme that it covers the entire painting. The result is a monochromous painting, vaguely displaying the silhouette of a walking nude.
The Runner 2013 Acrylic on canvas 50x50cm
The Runner and Walking Nude are experiments in the series of hazy paintings. The mist is so extreme that it covers the entire painting. The result is a monochromous painting, vaguely displaying the silhouette of a running man.
shiny people in a crowd 2013 Acrylic on hardboard 80x80cm
The shiny people are the good guys, the talented, the intellectuals, the brave ones, the Übermenschen. They glare in the grey crowd.
In shiny people in the crowd, they are litteraly placed in the middle of a crowd of grey anonymous silhouttes. The simplification of the figures into line figures reduces the difference between the shiny people and the crowd onto it’s essence. How the shiny people or the grey people look like is not important. The difference is incapsulated in their shining.
Keeping up 2013 Acrylic on canvas 50x50cm
Just like all other works in the series of hazy works, this work is about loneliness and isolation. An elderly man is following the trail of approximately seven young people. He persist in trying to keep up with them, but it is clear that he won’t hold it much longer anymore and that he will have to unhook with them.
The old man who is at risk of being left behind, will end up this way in a state of loneliness and isolation. A metaphor for the general aging in our society.
Masturbating man 2013 Acrylic on canvas 40x50cm
This work, painted in an expressionistic style, depicts a masturbating man with a convulsive face. In our Western education, we are taught that these kind of images are “dirty”; they should be kept hidden. Sexuality is taboo and it should not be exposed in public. Boss clearly wants to denounce this taboo. And how! The viewer gets a gigantic purplish cock right-in-the-face! No-one can ignore it. The phallus is painted in a complemantary color of the yellow corpse, accentuating this effect. The countenance of the man’s face predicts an approximate orgasm. If one would only see the face, it could be an expression of pain. (Pain and joy are close to each other when “the little dead” is near.)
Old man with beret 2013 Acrylic on canvas 50x50cm
An old man slaunters along a frontage. Hardly targeted he wanders arduously through the familiar streets of his home town. The old man himself has become part of the scenery. The wall seems endless. This doesn’t make it clear where he comes from or where he is heading to. Maybe he is just taking a walk to pass time? The elderly man is sketched with little detail keeping his identity hidden and turning him into a universel persona for an old man. Despite the sloppy painted haze, the luminosity and the decor suggest a Provençal atmosphere, but it is impossible to guess the location precisely.
All this fuzziness and the lack of a concrete context is used on purpose to arise questions. Who is this man? Where does he come from? Where is he heading to? Why is he wandering around? These kind of questions are a leitmotif in the series of misty paintings.
This way, an appearantly simple and idyllic scenery has become a universal excercise in existentialism.