{"id":3329,"date":"2023-02-10T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2025-06-01T22:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:27:37","slug":"victory-over-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/victory-over-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"Victory over the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The square is the same shape and size as the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Square_(painting)\" target=\"_blank\">Black Square by Kazimir Malevitch<\/a>. To me that painting symbolizes the absolute. It visualizes the absurdity and tragedy of our lives, and the death that must follow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/IMG_7562-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Victory over the sun, as installed in the MAAK RUIMTE exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-3098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/IMG_7562-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/IMG_7562-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Victory over the sun, as installed in the  MAAK RUIMTE exhibition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When you are in a building, with large windows, and you are looking out, especially in an art gallery, like this was, the feeling is generally that of expansive space, of possibility. I wanted to contrast that with the black square, and make the viewer confront both the mundane reality and the absolute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/IMG_7529-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"MAAK RUIMTE installation view\" class=\"wp-image-3092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/IMG_7529-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/IMG_7529-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">MAAK RUIMTE installation view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore this work was made for the exhibition &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/maak-ruimte-expo-2023\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3082\">MAAK RUIMTE<\/a>&#8221; (MAKE SPACE), from 10 februari 2023 to 5 maart 2023 in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pe5.nl\" target=\"_blank\">PE5<\/a>. The view from this buikding, designed by Gerrit Rietveld, is mundane and frankly awful. The use of this very square form to intervene in that rhymed with the building and made instinctive sense with Rietveld&#8217;s <em>modus operandi<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/IMG_7682-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/IMG_7682-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/IMG_7682-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The back side of the sticker was white, which was a nice contrast from the look inside and made the inside more dramatic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victory over the sun, oil paint on die-cut window sticker, 57 x 57.3 cm <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"960","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,1],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-square","category-work","tag-fill"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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