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Koen van den Broek

(c)photo: Studio Koen van den Broek, Merksem
Agrippina, 2015
Painting , 120 x 180 cm
oil on canvas

This work is one of the first in which Koen van den Broek clearly chooses a strong figurative element. We can just about make out a human figure walking off. Only the shadow betrays the nature of the encounter. Again, the artist incorporates a stylized representation of the crowned Agnes Sorel figure, the eternal mistress. It can be interpreted as a snapshot from Handel's baroque opera Agrippina, which revolves around a tangle of royal intrigue.