{"id":2251,"title":"Portrait of myself","dimensions":"300 x 205 cm","date_begin":"1998-01-01","material":"paper, oil, lacquer","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":12,"category_id":9,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"BK7036_M195B","stream_count_app":28,"permalink":"portrait-of-myself","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Painting","nl":"Schilderij","fr":"Peinture"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/932/large/portrait_of_myself.jpg?1465916292","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA/CC","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Dutch artist Elly Strik maks big, impressive drawings \u0026ndash; often two by three metres \u0026ndash; in charcoal, graphite, chalk, ink, pastels, oils and enamel paint. In this way her work is an exceptional addition to a tradition of portraiture in which monumentality of scale is usually set opposite the portrait genre\u0026rsquo;s claims to intimacy. The large self-portraits from 1998 portray the artist shortly after she moved to Brussels, and they immediately exude a grey, surrealistic atmosphere (as a sort of homage?); in one of these portraits a colourless orchid hides the artist\u0026rsquo;s face, in another she holds out a huge white egg in front of her, again making herself unrecognisable.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe Nederlandse Elly Strik maakt indrukwekkende grote tekeningen \u0026ndash; ze meten makkelijk drie bij twee meter \u0026ndash; in houtskool, grafiet, krijt, inkt, pastel, olieverf en lakverf. Haar werken vormen zo een bijzondere aanvulling op een portrettraditie waarin monumentale schaal doorgaans tegenover de intimistische claims van het portretgenre wordt gepositioneerd. De zelfportretten uit 1998 beelden de kunstenares af kort nadat zij naar Brussel verhuisde, en ademen al meteen (bij wijze van hommage?) een grauwe surrealistische sfeer; in \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n zo\u0026rsquo;n portret verbergt een kleurloze orchidee het gezicht van de kunstenares, in een ander houdt ze (eveneens onherkenbaar) een gigantisch wit ei voor zich uit. De dualiteit in de werken, van aantrekken en uitgesloten worden, wordt doorgetrokken in de vormelijke aspecten. De composities zijn veelal centraal of worden als diptiek opgevat. Het kleurgebruik is eerder ingehouden, met grijzen en aardetinten.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eLa N\u0026eacute;erlandaise Elly Strik r\u0026eacute;alise de grands dessins impressionnants \u0026ndash; ils mesurent facilement trois m\u0026egrave;tres sur deux \u0026ndash; au fusain, au graphite, \u0026agrave; la craie, \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;encre, au pastel, \u0026agrave; la peinture \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;huile et \u0026agrave; la laque. Ses \u0026oelig;uvres constituent ainsi un compl\u0026eacute;ment particulier \u0026agrave; la tradition du portrait, dans lequel l\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;chelle monumentale s\u0026rsquo;inscrit en faux contre les revendications intimistes du genre. L\u0026rsquo;autoportrait qui date de 1998 et repr\u0026eacute;sente l\u0026rsquo;artiste peu de temps apr\u0026egrave;s qu\u0026rsquo;elle a d\u0026eacute;m\u0026eacute;nag\u0026eacute; \u0026agrave; Bruxelles d\u0026eacute;gage d\u0026rsquo;embl\u0026eacute;e une atmosph\u0026egrave;re surr\u0026eacute;aliste sinistre (en guise d\u0026rsquo;hommage ?). Dans l\u0026rsquo;un des portraits, une orchid\u0026eacute;e incolore dissimule le visage de l\u0026rsquo;artiste, dans un autre, elle tient un gigantesque \u0026oelig;uf blanc devant son visage (qu\u0026rsquo;elle rend donc \u0026agrave; nouveau m\u0026eacute;connaissable).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":617,"name":"Elly Strik","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}