Exhibition 2002 Anneke van Brussel Nov. 30 - Dec. 31
"Het Lichaam van Mantegna I" 2002, acryl/papier op paneel, 74 x 54 cm
| Although Saint Sebastian, pictured here by Anneke van Brussel in the manner of Mantegna (b. 1431, d. 1506), has nothing as such to do with homosexuality, it is a fact that portraits representing this naked saint offered one of those rare opportunities to lose oneself completely in depictions of the male nude in an austerely God-fearing era. With deliberate disregard for this previous history, Anneke van Brussel "uses" her painting to mark what could be described as the culmination of a difficult period: one great big pile of mysery and martyrdom, pre-romanticised in a manner of speaking and relegated to the history books. |