The rule of law panorama, 180 degrees, 801x312 cm, oil and acrylic on aluminium, 2023-2024, installation in Museum More
In the period March-september 2024, museum MORE exhibited my landscape panorama project ‘The Rule of Law’ in their exhibition theme ‘There is more than what you see’.
The panorama is inspired on a natural garden and fits in my ongoing painting series His Paradise Garden.
The landscape is painted expressively, in which many lines of sight give the composition an infinite depth. A flat grid with black holes can be seen on the diameter of the semicircular canvas.
The atmosphere of the work will be magical and fiery. In addition to the image, an accompanying soundscape will be composed in which various sound layers are incorporated.
The complete set-up can evoke a meditative, comforting and spiritual experience in the viewer.
In the months of November ‘23 -January ‘24, I was invited by artvenue ‘NDSM-FUSE’ to paint this panorama live for the public during that period.
his project is sponsored by Museum more, AFK, NDSM-lood, NDSM-FUSE
Many thanks to my crew and brothers in arms keezduyves, manuel Rodrigues, tim stet, marckoolen, bart huskes And last but not least my wife titiakorff
Without the help of sito rozema, museummore, ndsm-fuse, afk, voordekunst and all the donators this project would not have happened. Thank YOu!
About the Soundscape by Bart Huskes:
I tried to incorporate as many of your wishes as possible. I also used the samples from the AM recording, the birds, the two space soundtracks and the Werner Tubke tape. Here are some thoughts about the piece:
I wanted to symbolise rationality versus irrationality between the consonance and dissonance of the tones of the "exhalation" of the forest. Also the purity of the clusters against the cacophony of the AM recording. I also see the AM sample as the basis of the regularity around which the forest covers itself. A bit like the spheres in front of the forest on the canvas.
There is a slow but intense heartbeat of the forest and after each heartbeat I wanted to create the image of nature rising and moving. I wanted the viewer to see the colours of the canvas in the music, through the spheres, and then to be drawn back to the solidity of the spheres with the radio samples.
The music should carry you, and just as you can find new notes in the clusters of chords, so you can find new notes in the details of the panorama.
The composition should convey both tranquillity and intensity, and its length, tension and narrative should carry the viewer through the canvas.
That was my vision for the composition.
The making of and other videos of panorama The Rule of Law
From Idea to Museum:
