Kunstkaart

in this work, a painting by van gogh, ‘the sower’, has been painted in oil on a 285x465 cm canvas. as the sun sets, a blanket of darkness is being pulled over the surface of the earth, covering all things that remind us of who we are. man it is, thus, left forsaken in his unconscious. in a state of hysteria and fearing of the futility of his existence, he goes out into the fading fields, desperately sowing his last seeds. an eclipse overshadows the sun, a black hole is born, swallowing it all but for a thin rim of light, an event horizon, only to remind us of what once was there. the physical space around the canvas is also inhabited by a painting of black sunflowers perching on its easel. next to it rests a linen suit covered in paint, the leftovers of the exhausting manic work, which the artist had undertaken digging in the “darkness”.