Monday, October 21, 2024
Monday, September 16, 2024
Nanothermite Dust by Jan Theuninck, 2024
acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm
Nanothermite Dust
is the basis of a new igneous rock composed of concrete and steel, it is called Lienineelevenite
Nanothermite Dust
ligt aan de basis van een nieuw stollingsgesteente samengesteld uit beton en staal, het heet Lienineeleveniet
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Monday, August 5, 2024
it's done - by Jan Theuninck, 2022
inspired by the blast of the Nord stream pipeline and the following destruction of Germany's economy
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
The temptation of Anthony (by Jan Theuninck, 1999)
acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm
This work is about a Belgian Military Blackmail game in Charleroi, involving a female officer,
probably ordered by Jan Theuninck's father, after whose death the neighbors told that he had a homosexual relationship with a local priest in Zonnebeke, a certain Christiaens.
Jan Theuninck's nephew, 18 years old at that time, called that female officer an army mattress.
It's an example of a psychological projection: for more theoretical explanation, the psychological processes are splitting, projection & projective identification. Splitting means not recognizing one's own capacity for hate, cruelty, and destructiveness. The person is blind to the bad in themselves. Instead, they project the badness onto some designated other. And this other person, via the defense of projection, is now seen as the repository of all that is bad and evil and necessary to destroy. That's the projection.
The person now feels fully justified in unleashing
their viciousness and hate on the other person, who is now seen (via projection) as someone monstrous who must be destroyed. If the person who is projected on responds to the provocation with anger, this is now seen as further confirmation of how hateful and destructive they are (this is what is called is "projective identification.") The end result is that the person can deny their own sadism, cruelty, and hate—while simultaneously acting it out without restraint. And feel themselves to be 100% on the side of truth and right as they do it.
cfr Prof. Jonathan Shedler
Q-people by Jan Theuninck, 1999
acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm
acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm
This work is about a Belgian Military Blackmail game in Charleroi, involving a female officer,
probably ordered by Jan Theuninck's father, after whose death the neighbors told that he had a homosexual relationship with a local priest in Zonnebeke, a certain Christiaens.
Jan Theuninck's nephew, 18 years old at that time, called that female officer an army mattress.
It's an example of a psychological projection: for more theoretical explanation, the psychological processes are splitting, projection & projective identification. Splitting means not recognizing one's own capacity for hate, cruelty, and destructiveness. The person is blind to the bad in themselves. Instead, they project the badness onto some designated other. And this other person, via the defense of projection, is now seen as the repository of all that is bad and evil and necessary to destroy. That's the projection.
The person now feels fully justified in unleashing
their viciousness and hate on the other person, who is now seen (via projection) as someone monstrous who must be destroyed. If the person who is projected on responds to the provocation with anger, this is now seen as further confirmation of how hateful and destructive they are (this is what is called is "projective identification.") The end result is that the person can deny their own sadism, cruelty, and hate—while simultaneously acting it out without restraint. And feel themselves to be 100% on the side of truth and right as they do it.
cfr Prof. Jonathan Shedler
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Neighborhood Action Teams by Jan Theuninck, 2023
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