• Clean-cut, abstract, geometrical and almost academic
• Numerous codes of post-modernistic art from the 1960s and 1970s, such as abstraction, geometry, monochrome and the "hard edge" technique but done with an irony and playfulness that cannot be reconciled with the attitude of minimalists and fundamental painters
Sergio De Beukelaer has been working on a self-confident and uncompromising oeuvre of paintings for over 20 years. The work of Sergio De Beukelaer appears simple and colorful but unites all kinds of apparent contradictions. Although his painting looks sleek, formal, geometric and abstract, it always starts out from a strong desire for reality. It is not the reality itself that interests him. He is concerned with a translation thereof. Through visual thinking and acting, he always achieves a certain form of abstraction within the formal framework of painting. Seemingly effortlessly, his art navigates between surface and space, text and image, intellectual seriousness and playful irony, painting and sculpture. Via the original and inimitable concept of the fat canvas, a three-dimensional painting, the artist breaks down the boundaries of classical painting. His paintings appropriate the space and generate a powerful visual impact on their environment. (cat.) is a bold and beautiful monograph of paintings and installations that look simple but combines a variety of paradoxes. Text in English and Dutch.
• Clean-cut, abstract, geometrical and almost academic
• Numerous codes of post-modernistic art from the 1960s and 1970s, such as abstraction, geometry, monochrome and the "hard edge" technique but done with an irony and playfulness that cannot be reconciled with the attitude of minimalists and fundamental painters
Sergio De Beukelaer has been working on a self-confident and uncompromising oeuvre of paintings for over 20 years. The work of Sergio De Beukelaer appears simple and colorful but unites all kinds of apparent contradictions. Although his painting looks sleek, formal, geometric and abstract, it always starts out from a strong desire for reality. It is not the reality itself that interests him. He is concerned with a translation thereof. Through visual thinking and acting, he always achieves a certain form of abstraction within the formal framework of painting. Seemingly effortlessly, his art navigates between surface and space, text and image, intellectual seriousness and playful irony, painting and sculpture. Via the original and inimitable concept of the fat canvas, a three-dimensional painting, the artist breaks down the boundaries of classical painting. His paintings appropriate the space and generate a powerful visual impact on their environment. (cat.) is a bold and beautiful monograph of paintings and installations that look simple but combines a variety of paradoxes. Text in English and Dutch.
(cat.): Sergio De Beukelaer
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(cat.): Sergio De Beukelaer
324
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789077207765 |
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| Publisher: | Stockmans Art Books |
| Publication date: | 07/01/2025 |
| Series: | Sergio De Beukelaer |
| Pages: | 324 |
| Product dimensions: | 8.82(w) x 11.34(h) x 1.40(d) |
| Language: | Dutch |