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Christiaan Tonnis
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The Tears in the Psyche
" . . . in his portraits the artist Christiaan Tonnis shows us the tears in the psyche that are written into faces.
In these paintings these faces are, as it were, stage areas of a forgotten Drama, only readable as old and rigid courses of action but with traces of the internal (hidden) foreigner.
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Tonnis’ compositions deliberately fake a realistic figurativeness like masks do, whose invisible sides are always hollow, and therefore want to hush up their cover-up strategy but nevertheless cannot.
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This structure of a psyche in foreign symbols, that are fragmented, are summed up in the face of a woman (drawn in an ambiguous way). Here a beauty holds a pointed pen and draws across the eyebrows in red, so one thinks. But it is a scalpel, that divides the skin with a fine cut. (2)
A whole woman-shape is inserted into this tender-pale countenance like a silhouette, or hallucination, (as if hovering above) and pierced with the empty gaze below the fibrous wound which is at the same time ignored: the strange "otherness", that divides us, and by which we are constantly elsewhere (not with us). Christiaan Tonnis’ works are consequentially supported with psychological knowledge . . . "
Kai Hoffmann, Frankfurter Rundschau
20. 2. 1986
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Picture Description
1. Ludwig Wittgenstein / Drawing / 1985
2. Self Injury 1 / Drawing / 1981
3. Georg Trakl / Painting / 1998
5. Young Woman, Detail / Drawing / 1982
6. Magic Mountain / Painting / 1997
8. Ludwig Wittgenstein 2 / Painting / 1987
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