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2016
Pieter VERMEERSCH
Mixed media
192 x 142 cm
Oil on marble
Pieter Vermeersch’s pictorial research extends beyond the surface of thecanvas. Defining the parameters of his work he plunges into and exploresrepresentation and abstraction. At first sight, an ethereal presentation characterizesthe canvases. At a perceptual level, these paintings could be considered acontinuation of the post-war Color Field and Minimalism traditions. They are fairlylarge format, so that the on-looker becomes, as it were, an integral part ofthe colour which imperceptibly evolves in perfect chromatic nuances, creating sensationsthat escape words.
His use of colour, which would first appear to be associated with amonochromatic abstraction tradition, is based on real images, often photographsof his own works or of clear sky, which the artist photographs himself andprints as a negative in a desire to experiment with the non-visible orintangible aspect of reality.
Since his exhibitionat S.M.A.K in Ghent 15 years ago, Pieter Vermeersch has been spotlighted in over30 solo exhibitions and recently at the Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona(2016); the Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne (2016); MSK, Museum ofFine Arts, Ghent (2015).
In the last two years he has produced monumental frescoes for the Schumanstation in Brussels and for Galeries Lafayette in Biarritz, as well as apermanent large-scale work on the Silos à Sel in Geneva.
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Pieter VERMEERSCH
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