Renaat Ivens 1935 - 2016

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Callewaert Vanlangendonck Gallery

Renaat Ivens was a Belgian artist born in 1935 in Sint-Niklaas and died in 2016 in Lier. He was a painter, draftsman, pastellist, and printmaker. He trained at the Academy in Sint-Niklaas, in advertising in Oostakker/Ghent, and in interior design at the School of Applied Arts in Antwerp. He debuted with, among other works, portraits that sometimes recall Modigliani. He evolved towards abstraction around 1958. A painter of spiritualized sensibility. Subtle color gradations, at times ethereally refined, at other times with powerful expressionistic accents, follow one another in a play of matter and form, in which the suggestion of a third dimension is sometimes present. On closer inspection, the apparent monochrome in his works proves to be a warm skin of transparencies. From the press: “R.I.’s painting is of an extremely pure quality. An art that invites a contemplative approach. In a tumultuous world like ours, a pause, an oasis of silence and ripple-free joy” and “The merging of word and image remains a regularly recurring phenomenon in his oeuvre, in which not only words, but also letters and numbers are given a place as full-fledged visual signs in his compositions to write, with a playful wink to the viewer, in a composition that Art is easy” and “R.I.’s monochrome canvases are the opposite of monotonous: they are lived-in works that bear witness to great subtlety”. Sometimes incorporates sand, jute, paper, linen, and plaster into his compositions, in which vertical lines of force often predominate. Works include those in the Muhka in Antwerp, and in the Print Cabinets in Brussels and Antwerp.

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