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.