Name: Sergio De Beukelaer - special edition - (cat.)(draw.)
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Sergio De Beukelaer - special edition - (cat.)(draw.)

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To accompany the book (cat.)(draw.), artist Sergio De Beukelaer created 20 unique multiples that are signed on the back. Neatly and safely packaged in a box, the unique multiple is accompanied by the book in a beautiful printed cotton slipcase.

A publication on the constructed, colourful world of Antwerp-based artist Sergio De Beukelaer, presenting his archive of sketches, designs, and preliminary drawings between 1997-2023.

(cat.)(draw.) follows our first book published with Sergio (cat.) and presents the prequel to the final result. Discover how an artist plots his designs and handles his archive of drawings. This book gives a deeper insight into the heart of the matter behind Sergio De Beukelaer’s artworks. Sergio’s drawings expose him indiscriminately, hence why he has waited until 2023 to reveal them.

What mathematics is to an engineer, drawings are to an artist.

It is the seedbed from which an idea springs. When I am in a gallery or a museum, I want to gain insight and be nurtured. To paraphrase Umberto Eco, a work of art “is a machine for generating interpretations”. He believes that any interpretation can make sense, and I agree with him. A good image makes you think. That’s why I feel so good about research as the seed for an image. An artist proceeds intuitively, and then interpretations emerge. And that point where the artist touches the essence, that’s when it gets really interesting for the observer.”

The artist’s drawing, therefore, takes on a new and higher level of value and intrigue.

The work of Sergio De Beukelaer looks simple but combines a variety of paradoxes. For example, De Beukelaer uses numerous codes of post-modernistic art from the 1960s and 1970s, such as abstraction, geometry, monochrome, and the “hard edge” technique. But he does so with an irony and playfulness that cannot be reconciled with the attitude of minimalists and fundamental painters. As part of this eclectic approach, classical-modern boundaries are pushed back, without there being any “post-modern” criticism of his predecessors from minimal, pop- ,op- ,and concept art. Apparent contrasts, such as figuration and abstraction, flat and spatial, word and image, painting and sculpture,b oth contaminate and fertilise one another. In the concept of the “fat.canvas”, a three-dimensional painting, the artist leaves the field of classical painting and conquers the painting space. The shapes, colours, and dimensions of De Beukelaer’s works are tempting, but behind the power of these compact images, a surprising impact lurks on closer inspection.

Editing and sequencing: Sergio De Beukelaer & Tim Peters
Design: Tim Peters
320 pages
23 x 29.5 cm
Publication date: December 2023
ISBN: 9789464363555