Pieta

When I was asked to donate a painting to the new European Art Museum, opening on september 2, 2016, and shortly after asked to honour my favorite painter, Rembrandt van Rijns 410 birthday, in a special Italian birthday publication, I knew I had to draw on my religious core, and work on a religious motive. I painted a pieta.

A Pieta illustrates a very beautiful moment. Here the mother is communicating with the father, holding her lifeless son in her arms - in the transit where something that is outworn dies, in order for a new life to start again.

It's the very symbolism of Christianity, where Christ walked before us and showed us the way to illumination, by crucifying the lower self, peeling a layer of the onion and shedding it, the reason why he is called our saviour, because of his example of how to do it...We remember this ritual every easter, the essence of fertility and the force of life, illustrated by bunnies and eggs, reminding us that the only certain thing in the earthly life is change - death and rebirth - mirroring nature in it's purest state.

Endings seem very dramatic when they occur, just like the labour does that has to take place before the birth of new life, emerging from the ashes - a new day - a new start.

She knows - Maria knows - a mother knows. 

In the book of Job 1:21. says: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised."

I don´t know if Rembrandt would approve of my humble contribution, but it is a real honour for me - I feel very thankful and blessed.