By Lisette Schumacher
80 x 60 cm, 2020
Acrylic on panel

From the series Triangular Niche Paris Molitor Building

Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier organized exhibitions of art objects at home, like sculptures, tapestries and paintings from different eras he had collected. He built an extraordinary collection with which he liked to surround himself with and from which he drew inspiration for his own paintings.

In the living room across from the sitting area there is a niche that caught Lisette’s attention specifically through its special shape; a rectangular triangle of which the wedge sticks upwards in a long and sharp manner. She saw a picture of this niche with a Byzantine mask exhibited in it. The niches once functioned as miniature exhibition spaces; theatres with varying performances of poetic objects.

Lisette decided to take the shape of the niche as starting point to paint. Compositions of rectangular triangles arose with three dimensional clues referring to the spaciousness of the original niche.