*1973 in Kortrijk, NL, lives and works in Brussels, BE
Pieter Vermeersch’s (Kortrijk, 1973) artistic research into painting expands beyond the confinement of the canvas. The Belgian artist uses and explores representation and abstraction as parameters. His work often consists of spatial interventions in which the boundaries of perception are questioned. His oeuvre, that includes immersive, painterly installations, non-representational, shimmering colour field paintings and series of photographic prints or marble pieces coated with a few blots of paint, triggers infinitesimal perceptual experiences, which allow us to move in a sense of colour that calls into being the gap between appearance and disappearance, in which the divisions between two and three dimensional, surface and volume, time and space are blurred.
Pieter Vermeersch
‘Hyperrealistic abstraction’
As is often the case in Vermeersch’s work, the paintings on display are based on photographs of real situations, although the subject is of no importance to the painter. They serve to capture a moment in time and space and form the starting point for the large-format works, which, after a complex transformation process of the photographs – e.g. rotation, reversal of the colour values… –, are painted after the template in a hyperrealistic manner.
Juliane Rogge