ƒ Antoine Roegiers (born 1980)
Les Proverbes flamands, 2008
Oil on canvas
97 x 130 cm
Provenance :
- Artist's studio
- Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva
- Purchased from the latter by the current owner
- Private collection, Geneva
Bibliography : A. Roegiers, "L'invention de la peinture", Edition Genève, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, 2009, color illustration, p.27
The buyer will be provided with the artist's certificate
Note:
"Les proverbes flamands" is a fascinating mathematical painting where the artist included 118 Flemish sayings. Those are just as many small paintings within one. What is fascinating here is the layout of all those characters abounding in a fictitious stage, composed of various architectural elements. In this painting, also called 'Le monde à l'envers' ('The world upside down'), each character is reduced to acting out only the action described in the proverb, forever. The repetitive and frenzied music plays an essential role here.
