Pieter Jennes
Subtitle: gezelligheid op een druilerige dag
By: Jozefien Van Beek; English translation Jonathan William Beaton
Contributors: Beek, Jozefien Van, author; Beaton, Jonathan William, translator
Series: Posture Editions -- 43; Posture Editions -- 43
Publisher: Posture Editions
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Gent
Language: eng; dut
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9789491262449
Subjects: Belgian Painting; Flemish Painting
Other titles: Gezelligheid op een druilerige dag
Description: "Warm company on a dreary day" - Inspired by painting, cinema and his own neighbourhood, Pieter Jennes is the creator of a highly unique oeuvre. His very recognisable personal style draws on the work of Flemish painters from the 1920s, such as Jean Brusselmans and Gustave De Smet, but also Ensor, Otto Dix or Georg Grosz, African masks and folklore, the cinema of David Lynch and Werner Herzog. While his work is clearly rooted in the history of painting, it is equally clear that it is made in the present - note the disposable Starbucks coffee cup, the sign on a shop door that reads mondmasker verplicht ('face mask obligatory'), the pair of Adidas socks, the ad for Ola-brand ice creams." From 'Bittersweet theatre on canvas', Jozefien Van Beek
Notes: Includes index