Martin C Herbst
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In the series Garden of Delights single flowers make a grand entrance in the staging of large paintings.

The curved background's mirrored surface produces permanently shifting distorted reflections of the beholder and the space around the painting. As a result the flowers seem animated, because our eye and brain cannot process the perception of an image deriving from a solid object in which parts change dynamically and others remain stable.

IThe Garden of Delights series incorporates a variety of flowers, but always a single blossom, casting each of them as a “star” through impressive staging. All these paintings are portraits of individual flowers, and yet they emphasise the qualities of the given species as a whole. It seems that even in thoseflower paintings the artist cannot escape the main theme of his work: portrait painting as a search for universal validity that is somehow larger than life.
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  • Artwork
    • HIDDEN TREASURES >
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    • SPHERES >
      • Text spheres
    • GARDEN OF DELIGHTS >
      • text garden of delights
    • MOON
    • RE-RENAISSANCE
    • PERSEUS
    • MARIA MAGDALENA
    • PERFECT FACE
    • BELLA
    • BRAIN
    • works on paper
    • GREEN EYES
    • JUDITH >
      • Text Judith
    • TAKE MY EYES
    • Early Works >
      • ANGELUS
      • MILLE BASIA
      • PERSONA
      • CORPUS
  • EXHIBITIONS AND ARTFAIRS
  • VIDEOS
  • Text
    • Martijn van Wenen Amsterdam
    • Archive of Views
    • Redierunt Angeli
    • Parmigianino
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT