09.29.2021-10.30.2021
The trompe l'oeil : next...
an invitation to set your eye on the unexpected
Through all the strategies of painting, the trompe-l’oeil reveals the treachery. It teaches us that what is near is sometimes distant and that the distant does not belong to only a few. It opens the eye to the possible through a game of transposition. At the time of our greatest missings and of our greatest call into questions, the trompe-l’oeil sets our gaze on the unexpected. It proposes to take us one step closer to the imaginable because it is also one step closer to what we can make happen and to what we can become.
For this exhibition dedicated to trompe-l’oeil, the gallery Salomon Lilian presents to its audience two paintings by Christoffel Pierson (1631-1714) and an emblematic work by Antoine Leemans (1631-1671), often visible in museum’s permanent collections but rare on the market. All three paintings cross the characteristics of the hunting gear while their life-size add a magnitude to the trompe-l’oeil’s demonstration in order to fix our gaze on these compositions.
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Juriaen van Streeck (? 1632-1687 AMSTERDAM)
Nature morte avec un roemer, une orange et une châtaigne
Huile sur toile