Walter Swennen: Untitled, 1982

Walter Swennen: Untitled, 1982
Oil on paper, 150 x 231 cm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

A cartoonesque painting depicts a triangle that limps along on one wooden leg. The triangle is symbolic for the unassailable authority of God within the Christian doctrine. Here Swennen seems to illustrate the fading authority of God in his reality.