Reinier Lucassen - The Champion - 2003 - Object - 70 x 70 x 2 cm

Described in the book Lucassen (Lou Meulenberg) the musical on page 70

Together with the painters Roger Raveel and Alphons Freymuth, Reinier Lucassen was one of the most important representatives of the so-called New Figuration in the 1960s. In his work, he seeks a synthesis between figuration and abstraction, between reason and an emotionally expressionistic way of painting. In this, the emotional content of a work is of essential importance to him. From the 1980s Lucassen develops a completely abstract language of form. The sizes of his paintings become smaller, the colors sober. Typical of the painter is that he integrates characters and numbers into his paintings and sometimes gives them poetic or enigmatic titles.