About ‘A man carrying a heavy chest’ by Studio Pronk.
A man is carrying a large cream-coloured chest in front of him, with both arms wrapped around it, and is leaning far back to support the weight. One knee bends under the strain. The chest is the only rectangular object in the entire series, a hard, straight shape amidst a sea of curves, and it is precisely this that makes you sense just…
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Studio Pronk creates still lifes that show off.
The ‘show-off’ still life is a Dutch invention: the exuberant
still life from the Golden Age, in which an overturned glass, a half-peeled citrone, and a heavy silver bowl boasted together about how good life was. I take that genre out of the museum and lay it flat. No dark sheets or candlelight, but hard surfaces,
thick lines and five colours.
My work begins digitally. I use AI to quickly view dozens of…