JCJ VANDERHEYDEN, Wolk in Boog, 1985-1986-1987
20 x 42.5 cm
dated in 1985, 1986 and 1987
JCJ Vanderheyden has made many paintings with a horizon, always with a high-contrast transition from horizon to sky. In the painting 'Cloud in Arch' I saw him for the first time in 1985 adding a very unusual and more figurative element to a horizon painting, i.e. a cloud!
JCJ Vanderheyden has made three dates on the back of 'Cloud in Arch'.
In this particular work, every time he added something to it, he noted the year and even the month; up to twice. He told me that in August 1986 he had painted the top edge of the painting (pale) violet blue. A second addition in 1987 was the cloud in the monochrome blue area. This is probably the first painting in which he included a cloud....
The diary entries with the additions show the artist's thinking and working methods in a special way. These notes on the back certainly make the work more than an ordinary horizon painting by JCJ Vanderheyden.
Verso a label from the Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham MA, United States recalls that the painting was part of a group exhibition 'Vision and Revision' in 1989. KvG