Mobile PhoneRiae
Willem van der Krieken
- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 100 × 80 cm, 2 cm deep
- How many
- One of one, there is only this canvas
- Credit
- after a photograph of Riae Suicide
- Signed
- front and back
- Certificate
- included, in my own name
€950
Sold
This one found a wall. There was only ever one of it.
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Returns 14 days ▪ you pay the return
Signed front and back ▪ there is no second one
Certificate of authenticity, in my own name
Painted in Boekel ▪ insured worldwide ▪ unmarked box
Neither looking
Neither Riae nor I is looking at the other in this one, and that suits me.
Five canvases of the same woman and she has never once met my eye. I did not plan that and I only noticed when I put them side by side. Whatever is holding her attention is not me and is not you.
What do you do with it?
Inspired by a photograph of Riae Suicide (@riae_). One of five canvases of Riae. What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of Painted Idols.
Buying is the easy part
The photograph this came from was made to be forgotten. This canvas was not. It took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years.
Ordering takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and decide something about you. That is the real decision, and it is yours. The ones who own these stop noticing the reaction after about a month, and never stop noticing the painting. Hang it anyway.
There is one of this canvas and there will never be a second. If you have read this far, you are already picturing the wall.
In a room
An impression of Riae (Mobile Phone) in a room. The room is imagined; the canvas is the real work. It is not a measurement: the size is in the details above.
The woman in this canvas
Riae Suicide
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