In the paintings on panel or canvas Chris Vanderschaeghe made in the past year, as well as in his drawings on paper, faces emerge as vague presences in paint. These are not real portraits: there are no concrete references to certain persons, recognizable acquaintances or models—they’re the head of the human being. The heads have been painted in a traditional manner, as it were modelled perfectly with radically figurative brushstrokes. They were composed using the wet-on-wet technique, in thin layers, and seem to dwell in a world of their own. The eyes are often closed or covered with a hood or collar. Their mood seems subdued, and it’s as if they isolate themselves or dreamily hide in their own being. They look away and cut themselves off from the near or distant surroundings with a blindfold, cap, mask or headset.
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