Vanhamel

Artist

Bruneau

Title

Rode figuur op groene background

Year

2002

Technique

Pigment on paper

Dimensions

Frame 52 x 42 cm

In addition to the numerous art-historical references in Bruneau's work, literary references are also widely present. In 1985, in an exhibition at the academy gallery in Waasmunster, Bruneau showed a series of drawings centered around the figure of Robinson Crusoe. Art historian Van Den Abeele wrote about this: 'The occasion for the project was the chance reading of Defoe's book. Especially the survival drive that emerges from the book seemed an attractive subject for this young artist—the identification is obvious. Bruneau recognized elements that had already played an important role in his earlier work: exoticism and the primitive visual language he had already introduced into his work through Cubism.'