Ilse D'Hollander - Real Life

Real Life by Ilse D'Hollander, published in collaboration with Gallery Sofie Van de Velde was released for the group exhibition 'Real Life'. This exhibition included artworks by Ilse D'Hollander, Lois Dodd, Christopher Colm Morrin, Jesse Murry, Heidrun Rathgeb, Peter Shear, Trevor Shimizu, and Frank Walter.

Real Life brings together a group of eight artists of different generations and from different geographies, who, like Ilse D'hollander, use paint to engage with reality in its most porous and capacious sense. Pigment or picture, paint or illusion, poetic or mimetic, the artworks in this book freely oscillate between representation and abstraction; the literal and the spiritual or transcendental.

Ilse D'Hollander (1968-1997) gave us a rare glimpse into her everyday life. A series of sketchbooks, dated from 1988 onwards, reveal a strong impulse to show the world as it is. In these pages, she directly observed the immediate environment around her, drawing the 'stuff' of her life in pencil, pen and graphite: her cat, a window mullion, the stairs in her house. These drawings were rarely studies for paintings, but were complete exercises in themselves, tools to sharpen her powers of observation and practice using her eye and hand.

ISBN: 9789464002201

Editing and sequencing: Sofie Van de Velde & Astrid Vereycken
Design: Bruno Devos
96 pages
13 x 21 cm
Publication date: February 2023
English
Texts by: Wells Fray-Smith, Christopher Colm Morrin, Jesse Murry & Frank Walter
ISBN: 9789464002201