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Agnes Maes (1942–2016) would have turned eighty this year. As a gallery owner and son of, we pay a proper tribute to this still highly underrated Belgian painter.

The exhibition shows a selection of the numerous paintings made by Agnes Maes during the period 1993–2014. The chosen spaces and landscapes feel somewhat desolate and alienating. There is not a living soul in sight. The paintings evoke in the viewer a kind of existential, spatial experience, with potentially high emotional impact. The transparent screen, which appears in many of these paintings, is literally in between the imagined …