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Kenne Grégoire
Still Life with Flowers, 2002
Jean Josquin ‘Kenne’ Grégoire (b. 1951) creates depth in this still life using the old trompe-l’oeil tradition. Our ‘eye is deceived’ by a painted door with a round opening. Cropping and overlapping, reinforce the sense of three-dimensionality. Grégoire allows some objects, such as the tea towel and
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flowers, to protrude from the hole as if you can almost grasp them. Other objects, like the mask and the wooden boxes, partially disappear behind the edge of the opening. The painted shadows also contribute to the sense of depth and verisimilitude.
Grégoire often uses a 17th-century painting technique, namely, colour glazes applied in several layers over a grisaille underdrawing. However, he generally does this with contemporary acrylic paint. His subjects and themes are diverse, ranging from figures referencing the commedia dell’arte to situations in which humans are emphatically absent: beds that have been slept in, uncleared tables, and ruins, as well as desolate classical buildings, trompe-l’oeils and still lifes in unusual perspective. An elementary feature of Grégoire’s work is a slight sense of alienation – he wants to amaze and entertain, to create illusions, not destroy them.
Grégoire comes from a family of artists: his father sculptor Paul Grégoire (1915-1988), his older sister Hélène a painter, and his brother Pépé a sculptor (b. 1946 and 1950, respectively). Kenne studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1967-1973).
Artist
Kenne Grégoire
Title
Still Life with Flowers
Year
2002
Technique
Acrylic on panel
Size
101 x 101 cm (h x w)
Type of object
Painting
Copyright
Uknown
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