Tijs Dragtsma (1992) – Echo of Vincent van Gogh

HOLIDAY SHIPPING*Echo of Vincent van Gogh is a contemporary artwork about obsession, suffering and the fragile line between genius and collapse. The image does not arrive through paint or print. It is carried in controlled scratches on acrylic glass, deepening slowly as light moves across the surface.Van Gogh gave everything to a practice that rarely gave back. His life was one of sustained removal, stripping away comfort, certainty and stability in service of a vision almost no one around him could yet see. Here, the portrait mirrors that logic. No paint. No print. No ink. The image appears through damage alone.Light shifts and the face moves between depth and quiet. From a distance, the eyes hold the viewer. The exhaustion in them is unmistakable, the full weight of a life poured entirely into seeing. Step closer and the face dissolves into a field of controlled surface damage, every mark catching the light at its own angle, every scratch a separate decision.There is something fitting in this medium. Van Gogh's brushwork was never smooth. It was turbulent, physical, relentless in its honesty. The surface of this work carries that same quality, not through imitation but through a shared logic. Texture as... lees verder bij Catawiki