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Untitled (Courbet) (2023) Untitled (Courbet) Artist: Ritsart Gobyn Dating: 2023 Type: Painting Material: Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas Measures: 160 x 115 cm Acces / purchase date: 2023 Inventory number: 1747 -
Untitled (2022) Untitled Artist: Ritsart Gobyn Dating: 2022 Type: Painting Material: Oil, acrylic, and spraypaint on canvas Measures: 40 x 30 cm Acces / purchase date: 2022 Inventory number: 1703
Since ancient times the trompe l’oeil was the ultimate mimesis. As every other illusion, this optic illusion is necessarily temporary and the successful creation of a trompe l’oeil fully depends on whether or not the goal of deceiving is achieved. As soon as the optical illusion is pierced, the role of the trompe l’oeil shrinks to a decorative ornament that, at best, only amazes through the virtuosity of the realization. Since result-oriented virtuosity and striving toward an ever more exact copy of reality is no longer the ultimate goal in the contemporary visual arts, the technique of the trompe l’oeil faded into the background in the twentieth century. Ritsart Gobyn however uses the trompe l’oeil as a pictorial strategy to attend the viewer, through the illusion of the result, to the artistic process of creation. In this way, the trompe l’oeil itself transforms from a simple matter of optical illusion and appearance to a searchlight in the artistic process itself. It questions the ‘status’ of the painting as an image but also as an object.
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