43 × 53 cm, gouache on oil painting - 2024
Pieter De Poortere transforms forgotten thrift-store paintings into playful, one-of-a-kind artworks by inserting his iconic antihero Dickie into existing scenes. With a few carefully drawn interventions, idyllic landscapes, portraits and genre paintings are turned into absurd visual jokes. Blending innocent-looking imagery with dark, irreverent humour, De Poortere creates unexpected encounters between classical painting and contemporary comic art, giving discarded artworks a second life and a mischievous new story.
43 × 53 cm, gouache on oil painting - 2024
Pieter De Poortere transforms forgotten thrift-store paintings into playful, one-of-a-kind artworks by inserting his iconic antihero Dickie into existing scenes. With a few carefully drawn interventions, idyllic landscapes, portraits and genre paintings are turned into absurd visual jokes. Blending innocent-looking imagery with dark, irreverent humour, De Poortere creates unexpected encounters between classical painting and contemporary comic art, giving discarded artworks a second life and a mischievous new story.
