Kunstkaart
Elsa Hartjesveld / "Donnez moi un bébé singe, il sera formidable.."
"The portrait she painted of the Belgian singer-songwriter Stromae is the result of her admiration of the enormous talent the singer possesses.
The image refers to a sentence in the song "Formidable” in which Stromae takes the role of a drunk man.
The guy is dumped by his girlfriend because he can’t have children.
At a certain moment in the song he says; „ and what’s wrong with you all staring at me like i was a monkey?
Sure, you’re such a bunch of saints, you bunch of apes!
Give me a baby monkey, he will be terrific, terrific…”.
Elsa Hartjesveld: „ There is a huge tragedy in this song and i think that his great sense of compassion is not only reflected by the fact that he created this song, but also by the way he interpreted it… ".