Brancard
- Framed double portrait - over 2 metres wide!
- Each in a shadow gap frame
- Inspired by COBRA and "Junge Wilde"
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Features and Remarks
The painting, created in 1995, varies the theme of the "stretcher" ("Brancrad"), which particularly preoccupied the painter in the mid-1990s. Away from the strong colourfulness of his early years, towards almost monochrome reflections on the theme of the human condition.
On two canvases we see two human figures, or rather skeletons, crammed into a rectangular form. The black frame of the stretcher used to transport the sick, wounded and dead stands out like a line drawing against the grey and white background. Everything around it is black.
The two images correspond without directly mirroring each other. They are mounted together in a harmonious shadow gap frame and, due to the consecutive work numbers on the reverse, were probably intended by the artist as a double image.
Van Iersel has been dealing with personal loss and death in his paintings since the early 1990s. He is strong in his brute depiction of emotional states - but also distances and processes them at the same time.
„In his painting, he depicts the psychoses of modern civilisation, the experience of the world as a psychological threat, as the fear of drowning in the masses, of losing one's own face in the disguise of convention and lies. It is the autistic world of the isolated, the alienated - heightened into the pathological and transposed into the creative.“
Klaus Hammer, 1996
Informations about the artwork
| Category | Malerei |
|---|---|
| artist | van Iersel, Rik |
| year | 1995 |
| Title | Brancard |
| size 1 | Frame 125,0 x 206,0 cm |
| material | Acrylic (2x) each on canvas joined in a frame |
| edition | Unique |
| signature | Each signed and dated on the verso of the canvas: Rik 95 |
| Provenance | Private Collection Germany |
Information about the condition
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The Painting is in a very good state of preservation Minimal surface impurities. Canvas with tiny hole on the right and material adhering to the stretcher bar on the reverse (probably studio traces). Each mounted in frame. |
Information about the artist
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Rik van Iersel wurde 1961 in Maastrich, Niederlande geboren. Van Iersel ist als Künstler Autodidakt. Im Alter von achtzehn Jahren entwirft er Plakate für Konzerte im Jugendclub Effenaar-Eindhoven. Er arbeitet als freiberuflicher Grafik-Designer und entwickelt seine eigene Handschrift. Er zeichnet Comics, spielt Schlagzeug in Band 'Der Junge Hund' und betreitbt weiter Musikprojekte. Seit 1982 stellt er seine Bilder regelmäßig in den Niederlanden und im Ausland aus. Sein Stil ist von der COBRA-Gruppe in den Niederlanden und den deutschen “Jungen Wilden” gebrägt. Er arbeitet schnell und spontan. Seine Bilder stellen die menschliche Figur in den Mittelpunkt - oft gepaart mit dem Mittel der Groteske oder der Art Brut. Die Untiefen der Psyche und das Überleben in der von Bildern allumfassend überformten Gegenwart sind wiederkehrende Themen. Rik van Iersel lebt und arbeitet in Eindhoven. |
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