Jacques Lennep

*Paysage sanguin* belongs to his *Tapisteries* series, which he began in 1992 and in which the artist plays with artistic conventions by painting on the reverse side of the canvas. There are several ways of interpreting this work, which is not without irony. The questioning of the work’s status stems from the artist’s contempt for traditional pictorial structures: here, the loose canvas is tied to the frame with bits of string. His reflection on the historical development of art and on painting that has become verbose is evoked by the incorporation of texts into the image, which sometimes disrupt the reading of it. But is it really unintentional that the artist allows his sense of pictorial material and his quest for harmony to shine through? In Lennep, a sensitive and intellectual artist, these two creative poles converge. They enrich his vision and lend it its coherence.

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