Linda and Perkup
This is Linda and Perkup's interpretation of Peasants in a tavern by David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690).
Flemish country life
David Teniers the Younger was the premier exponent of Flemish art featuring rural peasants, a genre whose typical settings included barns and taverns. Unlike other artists of the time, Teniers refrained from caricaturing the peasants he depicted.
First-time collaboration
This reinterpretation of the work is the first time the street artists Linda Steiner and Perkup have worked together. Linda Steiner’s art focuses primarily on the depiction of figures and bodies in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Perkup creates collages of analog or digital material, bringing it together in new combinations. Still lifes are a focal point of his work.
People together, then and now
The reinterpretation sees Linda Steiner giving the group of people in the foreground of Teniers' work a present-day style and greater diversity, while retaining the original’s central theme of people socializing. Perkup has transferred objects such as jugs and pots from the original into the reinterpretation, where they enjoy greater emphasis and plasticity. Some of the group of people in the background of Teniers' work appear in the upper part of the reinterpretation, in what the artists call a ‘window to the past’. The yellow and white line of pixels that runs through the work represents the digital age.
