"My motifs evolve and take on different connotations. It's as though my iconography fuses with my language, works its way into my world and becomes part of it."
- Robert Zandvliet, 2017
Insight | Motif | Robert Zandvliet
February 16, 2021Sometimes a motif serves as a point of departure for a painting; in other works it is more emphatically present. Several motifs continue to crop up and have come to be part of Zandvliet's iconography: the rearview mirror, an empty movie screen, an unpainted canvas, a vertical strip which both divides and connects and which evolves into a path, an opening or a crack of light. The motifs share a common quality of evoking few associations. That indeterminacy gives Zandvliet the room to provide them with a new presence and meaning due to his way of painting.