Drents Museum shows 100 self-portraits: ‘How much Sam Drukker can you have!’

The title of the exhibition The Man in the Mirror, also says something about the distance an artist has, says Drukker. “I usually take a self-portrait at an unplanned moment. I don’t know anything and try to look unbiased. Most self-portraits start as a break number. Sometimes you’re tired, sometimes you’re grumpy and you’ll see it all. But I never work with a preconceived plan. I am ruthless in my self-portraits.”

“I am not interested in what the depicted person will look like. I am interested in painting and also work on all kinds of different materials. Think of plaster, concrete, tarpaulins, old boards. Stuff I take from the container, for example. I’m exciting. I often look seriously at the portraits because I’m looking concentrated, not because I’m depressed or anything.”

“It is work from 1978. It is about forty years. In the paintings you see a young student becoming an old man. But you also see the development of the artist in his painting.”

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