Le Massacre des Innocents
Le Massacre des Innocents, 2016, h 205 cm x w 122 cm (h 80.8 in x w 48.1 in), collage of adhesive film on drawing polyester on lightbox. A media image inspired me to create two art works. In 2016, I made ‘Le Massacre des Innocents’ (The Massacre of the Innocents). It is a recurring theme in art
Laments of an Icarus
Knives and scissors are his brushes. He compiles his own images from the folders and scrapbooks full of remarkable photos from the newspaper, which we quickly take for granted. This is done sketching, in pencil, then cutting and pasting until he likes it. Then he enlarges the sketch manually and ‘
Solo | Laments of an Icarus
The Laments of an Icarusis the title of a solo exhibition at Kenndey Van der Laan (lawyers) gallery with new artworks by Patrick Koster. It is not often that you come across an artist who has been working in his studio for about twenty years. He has hardly ever shown that work before. More often it
Parable of the Sower 6
During a recent research, I discovered Mark Twain’s (1805-1910) book “The War Prayer”. The book was initially forbidden. The story had similarities with the church attack in Charleston. Mark Twain wrote “The War Prayer” in response to the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-
