A 'modern' painting as big as The Golden Room of the Mauritshouse,
a museum with one of the finest and exquisite collections of 17th - 18th century
paintings in Holland.
For the frame, the painter had enough to a well decorated environment:
the exuberant ornamentation of the walls and ceilings of this central room in the museum.
The canvas of his painting was kept blank, like a mirror waiting for a new image.
But nothing is more adapted to a fetish of modernistic iconoclasm than a materialized, provocative image.
That's why this artwork exists in its appearance of a photo, presented e.g. in The
Golden Room or in a daily newspaper. The installation was for the painters eyes only.
Klaas Kloosterboer (1959) lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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