Window on Infinity - Room 10
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Cathedrals of Light
After monochromy and achromy, Jef Verheyen explores panchromy, embracing not just many colours but all the colours of the rainbow and sun path. He uses these to paint refractions, tondos and cathedrals of light as homages to light. In 1974 Verheyen moves to Provence. He writes several times about its exceptional ‘shimmering light’, a light that inspires him to paint an homage to impressionist painter Claude Monet. Verheyen doesn’t base this work on observation, however, but rather on the imagination of light as an idea or concept. Light takes shape here in the enchanting interplay of crystal-clear colours. Verheyen paints them he says ‘flat on a deep painting’. Adimensional, infinite and intangible. Like a space. Or like a breath.
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Invitation to the exhibit...
Jef Verheyen, Galerie Aujourd'hui, Invitation to the exhibition 'Zonnebogen' in Galerie Aujourd’hui, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1964. Invitation Card, ink on paper.
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Magic Mirrors
Ann Veronica Janssens, Magic Mirrors, 2019. Sculpture, 220 x 110 x 1.2 cm.
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Notebook 'Venetië'
Jef Verheyen, Notebook 'Venetië', 1976-1977. Book, notebook, mixed media, 31,8 x 23,6 cm.
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676 • Stelatex (ed. 25)
Jef Verheyen, 676 • Stelatex (ed. 25), 1966. Multiple, ink and mixed media on cardboard, 49,5 x 34,5 cm.
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Frank Philippi
After studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Frank Philippi choses photography over painting. It was his greatest hobby, but
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Paul De Vree
Paul De Vree was a pioneer of European concrete poetry and a visual artist. He founded literary journals such as 'De Tafel Ronde' in Belgium
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Ann Veronica Janssens
Ann Veronica Janssens mainly does site-specific works. She is neither sculptor nor architect. Taking a specific space as her starting point,
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Günther Uecker
On his participation-sheet for Vision in Motion, Uecker calls his works ‘Objecte’. The monochrome white and yellow canvases on panel, and a w