This series consists of three paintings. The idea is based on the phenomenon that a painting is in his nature a flat screen, -covered with colours, lines,dots etc.

Maurice Denis redefined this concept  at the end of the 19th century. In the 20th  century we’ve seen that surface and flatness became more and more important in art. Paintings referred to mental spaces.Yet the suggestion of a virtual space in the surface of the painting can be made by perspective, warm and cold colors, scale etc. And moreover there’s the  real space before the surface of the canvas.  Painters in the 17th  century were very occupied  at the same moment to combine the space of the canvas and the room they lived in. The often tried to make a unity of these two.

GAZE: 80x100cm, 2004, acryl on canvas.

A standing woman looks over her shoulder into our space. In the middle there is a sail to be seen. The rope that is attached to this ends in the room we live in. At the right side of the image a silhouet appears. This figure is broken two times, by his knees and right across the middle of the body.  You have to watch carefully to notice the spacial structure.The left white form is the most near. And then starts the play with the variuos spacial positions in this,- in a way -alarming picture.