Fred Bervoets 1942

Lives in Antwerpen. Works in Antwerpen.

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Callewaert Vanlangendonck Gallery

As a painter, graphic artist and teacher, Fred Bervoets (1942) is a living legend on the Antwerp art scene. Artistically, he is a man of extremes: he paints expressive, pressure-filled scenes on wall-filling canvases, in a style often somewhere between post-Cobra and Fauvism. At the same time, he is the guardian and continuator of the noble craft of printmaking. With great attention to detail in his linework, he engraves his etchings with nitric acid in zinc printing plates. Initially the etching is an independent creation, but gradually he puts his engraving work more and more to the function of finishing and painting afterwards. This results in a varied, almost playful oeuvre that is always based on his own life and surroundings, and can be described as an Ensorian mishmash of self-mockery and irony. Bervoets often places himself as a caricature of himself in the scenes that surround him, making his work reveal itself even more as a direct representation of his view of the world. That world is crowded and ramshackle, full of anecdotal references and reminiscences. His open enthusiasm and artistic vitality make him a valued teacher at the Art Academy of Antwerp, where he transmitted his vision and craftsmanship for decades to new generations who see in him the direct derivative of the classical old masters.

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