Pastorale

Pastorale is a trompe-l’oeil of the reverse side of a tapestry: a pastorale.
The classic scenery becomes an abstract landscape of colourful yarns, behind a wooden stretcher.

The photograph is to be laid against the bottom of a wall, as awaiting to be hung.

Before studying at the art academy I studied Art History and my thesis was a research about trompe-l’oeil paintings during the Dutch Golden Age.
Pastorale is an homage to the trompe-l’oeil master Cornelis Gijsbrecht (Antwerp, ca. 1630 – ca. 1684), and his ‘Reverse of a painting’, to be seen in Kunstmuseen Copenhagen.