Selamat datang ?

120 cm x 150 cm.
Acrylic and spray paint on 3D canvas.
Tymon de Laat ..
Rotterdam NL 2020.
Commissioned work
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This is part 2 from a commissioned diptych made to represent customers dual heritage. The painting of Jules Deelder posted earlier represented his Dutch heritage. This one is about his Indonesian roots. Selamat datang means welcome.

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16 December 2020

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Acrylic Canvas portfolio Spray paint

De Laat started painting murals and canvases, often based on his own photographs of the people he met during his travels. He exaggerates the natural lines in their faces, and fills the spaces that appear between those swirling lines with swaths of vivid color. The linework and color palette he applies in that way, are a means of translating his memories of Latin America to visual imagery. The food, the architecture, the clothes, and particularly his respect for the culture of indigenous peoples; it’s all in there, as de Laat transitions it over to enliven drab Western concrete.

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