GIG BAG PAINTINGS

2022, OIL ON CANVAS / PANEL

French Horn, Trombone /paper,30x40

Viola /linen60x60

Recorder&Cello /panel,30x30

Brass Band /linen,50x60

Harp&Euphonium/ panel,30x30

French Horn & Strings /linen, 50x60

Cello /linen,40x50

Drums & Tuba /linen,40x50cm

Saxophone /panel, 30x30

Saxophone /panel,30x40

Tuba & Euphonium /linen,40x50

Saxophone & Accordion /linen, 40x60

French Horn /linen,50x50

Orchestra /linen.50x70

Double Bass /panel,30x40

Tuba&Accordion/ panel,30x30

Seven panels and nine canvases, under the name Gig Bags, conceived from one and the same idea.

'Gig bag': musician's slang for any kind of case that serves as protection when carrying a musical instrument. This can be anything: case, cover, tube, sheath, box, bag, box. The shape suggests what's inside, but we won't see that.

Painted here outside their everyday environment, they look lost, displaced, do not belong anywhere. There is silence, and a touch of adieu…