We started our Wild Walls series on the website in the period of the lockdown, when art also ended up in isolation: trapped between four walls and reduced to a media experience. We are happy that the museums and other ‘houses for the art’ have opened their doors again. Since we received many positive reactions on our Wild Walls series, we decided to add still another wall to this [removed];
On view in Wild Walls #4is a selection of ten diptychs by Sanne Rous, entitled We all had bigger dreams to follow. When Sanne Rous began seeking another source of income to supplement that of her work as a visual artist, she wondered what sorts of odd jobs artists had done throughout the ages and whether these had influenced their artistic practice. The question resulted in a study and a series which presently consists of twenty-five diptychs, each of which shows a portrait of an artist, drawn on paper, paired with a painting of the ‘odd job’ held by the artist concerned.
The biographies of the artists proved to be a source of information and inspiration. For Rous the series of diptychs relates to the fundamental issue as to the meaning of being an artist by profession, the conception of work, as well as to the relationship between art and craft, or art and economics.
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