collected portraits
For his exhibition 'bladgoudjongens - deel 1', Bart Drost had his 'triptych with the artist at a very young age' from 1987 undergo an irreversible metamorphosis. Before he painted the photos in the triptych with gold paint, he photographed the triptych in its entirety and in 2023 he zooms in and photographs 121 portraits within the 'old' triptych.
He freely draws these portrait photos with pencil in size 12x12 cm. He then examines the same photos a second time and draws them with fat chalk on panels of 23x23 cm. The 121 crayon portraits are the starting point for the project 'who I was'.