Philips "Nachtlicht" - Night Light

"The problem of light is extrapolated in Rob Scholte's 'Nachtlicht', painted in 1984. A shaded lamp is standing on a table in a daylit living-room. Black 'light' streams out from the shade. Across the front of the perfectly rendered perspective of the room, Scholte has painted the flat trademark of Holland's number one lamp manufacturers, Philips. In the middle of the trademark he has left a space for a circular surround for the black light. A nightlight is actually a light for the dark, and the painting probably refers to the contradiction of terms in the name." (Exh.cat. Rob Scholte How to Star, 1988, p. 83)

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