Yves Velter is a Belgian artist (Ostend, °67) based in Ostend, Belgium.
For the painter and sculptor Yves Velter, existential questions and the psychological issues associated with them are the core content of his artistic production. His works are strung together by a thematic thread. Yves Velter is fascinated by the individual and more specifically by the contemplative angle, that part with which we are familiar but cannot grasp. The hushed characters are based on existing people made anonymous by partially abstracting them in a timeless environment. They are placed in situations where they create an opening in reality, breaking through the impossibility of giving an answer.
Yves Velter is working on an ever-growing oeuvre of mainly paintings and works on paper, with a very recognisable, individual style. Since 1997, Velter has increasingly depicted human figures. The artist became fascinated by almost unsolvable issues and focused on contemplative questions and the psychological problems associated with them. This is why he chose the title 'Serendipity' for his first solo exhibition in 1997 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ostend. Among the extensive list of solo and group exhibitions scattered across Belgium, one can also count the Kunstenfestival van Watou in 2016, as well as the Stadsfestival Damme in 2019. Several of Velter's artworks are also part of private and public collections at home and abroad.
For the painter and sculptor Yves Velter, existential questions and the psychological issues associated with them are the core content of his artistic production. His works are strung together by a thematic thread. Yves Velter is fascinated by the individual and more specifically by the contemplative angle, that part with which we are familiar but cannot grasp. The hushed characters are based on existing people made anonymous by partially abstracting them in a timeless environment. They are placed in situations where they create an opening in reality, breaking through the impossibility of giving an answer.
Yves Velter is working on an ever-growing oeuvre of mainly paintings and works on paper, with a very recognisable, individual style. Since 1997, Velter has increasingly depicted human figures. The artist became fascinated by almost unsolvable issues and focused on contemplative questions and the psychological problems associated with them. This is why he chose the title 'Serendipity' for his first solo exhibition in 1997 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ostend. Among the extensive list of solo and group exhibitions scattered across Belgium, one can also count the Kunstenfestival van Watou in 2016, as well as the Stadsfestival Damme in 2019. Several of Velter's artworks are also part of private and public collections at home and abroad.
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