Much like the ceiling paintings from the Baroque era, this work by Gij Frieling seeks to daze the viewer. When one looks up in the central lobby of the Siependaal psychiatric clinic, one is confronted with a sumptuous tableau. The sky is swirling and the birds are circling and it seems as if a view has been exposed through the ceiling of the building. Frieling’s painting offers a timeless representation of the world in which the earth, like a type of frieze, frames the heavens. This frieze depicts the progress of the four seasons, which is expressed by the changes in the weather, the trees and the plants. The artist filled his depiction of the world with fragments his own holiday memories.

Gijs Frieling
Gelderse Roos Rivierenland

photo: Luuk Kramer