The paintings of Hans Vandekerckhove (Belgium, 1957) combine tranquility with an alienating sense of tension and desolation. It embodies a wealth of contradictions in a unique way, mingling dream and reality, eroticism and innocence, the soberly factual and the deeply enigmatic. An elusive, mysterious and wonderful world lies concealed beneath the deceptive simplicity and outlandish colours. In …
The paintings of Hans Vandekerckhove (Belgium, 1957) combine tranquility with an alienating sense of tension and desolation. It embodies a wealth of contradictions in a unique way, mingling dream and reality, eroticism and innocence, the soberly factual and the deeply enigmatic. An elusive, mysterious and wonderful world lies concealed beneath the deceptive simplicity and outlandish colours. In his work, gravity is not present and time passes differently for it is the artist himself who determines the laws of paint, colour and perspective.The title of the exhibition refers to a recent …
