Soft Pieces:
Soft Smile/Roadkill Trophé/Action Patchwork
2008
Soft Smile
Mixed media
200 x
The smile can be seen as both disarming
and annoying and is read as easily as a sign of great wisdom and of great stupidity.
The “open face” is a term used in discussions on the authenticity of the
artwork as a symbol of the honest intention, emphasized by traditional art
practitioners and conversely seen as lacking in contemporary art. Contemporary
artists might on the other hand see the traditionalists as naive and a bit
soft.
Roadkill Trophé
Mixed media
140 x
The less flattering sides to the
collecting of art is underlined when a piece’s coming
into life is being compared to a road kill. The function of the art piece as a
collector’s conquest is emphasised by the association to the use of animal hide
as trophies of hunting.
Action Patchwork
Mixed media
95 x
The word ‘action’ means both effect and
course of action, event and struggle, which can serve as a summing up of
general characteristics of art. The patchwork stands through its domestic
connection in contrast to abstract expressionism, once promoted as at the
height of the cultural advancement of western civilisation. Patchwork is also in
its metaphorical sense a term describing sloppy work.