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The exhibition Into the Gathering features a new painting series about togetherness, reflecting on physical contact and social distance, on individual behavior and group dynamics.
Dirk Eelen’s recent oil paintings draw thematically and stylistically upon his earlier series. The Belgian artist started with ‘Into the Gathering’ in 2020 just before the outbreak of the pandemic. For this specific project Dirk Eelen invited about 60 people dressed in white, in a dark space, to create images in a special realm and to depict images in a spatial and temporal vacuum. By staging and filming his own …