Four artists, from different generations, with a common thread: geometric, abstract, 2D and 3D. Each with their own view of the world, they are brought into dialogue with each other. Various materials are used: wood, corten steel, polystyrene, acrylic, Chinese ink and paper.
Ado Hamelryck (1941)
Lives and works in Genk.
The first difficulty is how to name his works "drawings" or "writings".
But neither are they. They are the writing of the body, interrupted ascending and descending, fluid or rhythmic, moving from left to right and top to bottom.
Of the writing, only the pure "gestuality" remains; through the meaningless writing, every meaning is rather a path from void to void and every meaning disappears into "nothingness", the nocturnal. Blackness is "all over".
Alex Kindt (1963)
Lives and works in Gullegem. He knows how to virtuosically enhance the natural aspect of wood and dares to play with colour in the finish.
His three-dimensional creations are a counterbalance to the painted works, which, in their design, repeatedly turn out to reflect lines and imperfections he discovered in the wood.
Through their pure design, this artist's creations allow us to connect with our essence in the hecticness of this world
Dieter Lannoo (1976)
Lives and works in Ghent. He graduated there as an interior designer and also trained as a shoe designer and goldsmith. He also developed a great interest in street art. These influences of design and abstraction materialised in his own visual language of harsh contrasts and ditto textures. The conceptual works lean heavily towards graphic/architectural design. That pared-down constructive language of form consists mainly of lines, planes and rectangles that reflect a strong identity.
Renée Rohr (1940)
Born in Caen. Lives and works in Brussels. After graduating in sculpture from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (student of Jacques Moeschal), she explored geometric forms. After working with different materials, including marble and rubber, she finally chose Corten steel. She was attracted to this steel, whose colours change over time and which is never destroyed, like the hulls of ships that, as the daughter of a sea captain, have fascinated her since childhood!
She works with simple and pure forms in line with the constructivist movement. They are curved and pierced to fit into the industrial landscape that is ours. Rust rehumanises right angles and linear volumes. They also form a support for meditation.