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Galerie Greta Meert is pleased to present the fifth solo exhibition of Jef Geys (Leopoldsburg, 1934 - Balen, 2018).

The work of Jef Geys is resolutely local. The Belgian artist conceived and orchestrated his work from Balen, his hometown in the Kempen, a region where he also worked as a primary school teacher between 1960 and 1989. In the 1960s, Geys became the editor of Kempens Informtieblad, a local newspaper that he took over and used as a mean to
disseminate information and documentation relating to his work and its socio-political context. Geys’ longstanding interest in superimposing …