Liberté, égalité, sélection.
Installation for CIVIC VIRTUE, at ARTI ET AMICITIAE, Amsterdam. Overview of the show here.
Format: Installation
10 Paintings: acrylics & primer on canvas, 80 x 100 cm;
Gravure: Untitled, Unknown, from the collection of ARTI ET AMICITIAE
Surveillance-camera, installed by ARTI ET AMICITIAE.
Details: The installation was made for the group exhibition CIVIC VIRTUE,
On 18th & 19th Century Neo-Classicism & revolution, as perceived through ARTI’s 19th Century context.
The paintings show imperfect circles, created by painting the white, over and over, instead of the form it leaves open. This way the circle is established in close harmony with the material worked in, instead of forced onto the material, by some superb technique that aims to control. Together their imperfections can be clearly sensed, yet they seem natural and only become uncomfortable when seen through neoclassic eyes.
On the wall next to the paintings is a gravure of an 19th century man, hanged upside down. His eyes are directly focussed on the paintings, but only because of his hanging upside down.
The title plate, 19th Century gold-plated, is placed onto the wall opposite, on the spot where ARTI’s surveillance-camera is aimed.
Keywords: DECAPITATION – NATURAL-SELECTION – ORDER - REVOLUTION
Untitled, by unknown
