OPEN FROM SATURDAY 5 DECEMBER 2020

Saturday and Sunday
from 2 pm until 5pm

the gallery will be closed on Saturday 26/12 and Sunday 27/12

For deliveries, collections, advice or information you can contact us by telephone or e-mail.

paviljoen@kasteelstraat1.be

Hilde Vandaele
+32 477 43 85 93

ONLINE GALLERY // ARTWORKS PAUL BOURGEOIS

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The tangible surface is an anchor point that is closely linked to the oeuvre of the Belgian artist Paul Bourgeois (°1941). His well-known poetic perforations such as small dots or holes in fragile materials present forms that, beyond the pure raw material, leave room for his imagination. However, the weathered carriers, who have already lived a few lives before the artist uses them, are liberated from suggestion or interpretation. The remnants of posters, bits of lead or leather panels, pieces of zinc or rubber are visual explorations which together investigate the pictorial and sculptural process.

Both in handy formats and the larger works, the tactility is expressed in perforated lines and surfaces, untangled folds and wrinkles, as relief forms arranged in simple colours. Each work calls for its own level of concentration, a glance that leaves you wondering and searching, back and forth, so as to be able to see the full extent of its depth.

The apparent simplicity becomes quite surprising as soon as the moment you realise that time has done its work. The aspiration of eternity is being challenged by the possibility of oblivion, in which the carefully collected and almost forgotten remnants are endowed with a new reason for existing, a visual future through the hands of Paul Bourgeois. And the repetitive patterns repeatedly draw all of one's attention to renewed life and add an extra stratification in the curve of time. Your time. 
 
Els Wuyts