Vastgelopen Zonnekoning (Stuck Sun King)

Edition of 20

• 50 x 70 cm
• Screenprint, Canson 250 grams, five colours
  
• Signed and numbered by the artist

As a child, Bob Mollema grew up around horses, and in his work, they often appear as a motif and gauge of his emotions. Sometimes, it varies with a rider without a saddle, then only with a saddle and without a rider.

Once in a while, in his artistic process, one looms up again. When he feels a primordial energy, the horse flows out of his fingers. The artist hopes the audience can also feel this energy and connect with a wild, primordial undertone that, like a sword, chops up modern society's monotonous and uniform life.

The horse depicted in this work is so static that it almost looks like a jammed part of an old merry-go-round; the sun that has descended on it has a less static attitude opposite the horse, but it will never be able to parade as there may be no movement in the horse.

The work reflects on how there is no place left for the mighty forces of nature. The artist believes we waltz over our planet with no respect; this blackens our hearts. Mollema suggests that it would help humanity to allow the old nature gods back in and enable the wilderness into our hearts in awe.