Transformata Hyacintho
190x250cm, oil and crylic on linnen. 2021
Photo on this page: Jean Baptiste Berangere
In the autumn of 2020, I bought back a painting I had made in 2005 from the Ipomeia series at Bukowskis. It was exhibited in 2007 and I had not seen it since. Recently, I have regained my interest in that series of paintings and also started a new one that is directly related to the older one with a new title ‘The Aesthetics of Fruit’. It continues my interest in homoerotic works and for me deals very directly with the question of representation and address.
So I had the possibility of incorporating an older work into a new series which became an important step in the work and quickly exposed a number of aspects of time and representation that are specifically addressed in painting. It thus became necessary to repaint. There are now two paintings on top of each other, or should we say two painting processes that actually connect two time periods. The painting itself therefore shows a segment of real time with all that it means of experiences, attitudes and feelings both in me and my surroundings. Completely apart from what the painting represents, it is a time document.