Sergio De Beukelaer. (cat.)(draw.)
Description:
The Belgian artist Sergio De Beukelaer has been working on a self-confident and uncompromising oeuvre of paintings for over twenty years. Leaf through his archive of sketches, designs, and preliminary drawings made between the years 1997-2023. (cat.)(draw.) follows the first book published called (cat.) —-recently sold out— and presents the prequel to the final result. Discover how an artist plots his designs and handles his archive of drawings. (cat.)(draw.) gives a greater insight into the heart of the matter behind Sergio De Beukelaer’s artworks. Sergio’s drawings expose him indiscriminately, hence 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”. 320 pages
Discover the drawings of the creator of the fat canvas with clean-cut, abstract, geometrical, and almost academic sketches and drawings. Sergio De Beuklelaer uses numerous codes of post-modernistic art from the 1960s and 1970s, such as abstraction, geometry, monochrome, and the “hard edge” technique but done with irony and playfulness that cannot be reconciled with the attitude of minimalists and fundamental painters.
ISBN:
9789464363555
Specifications:
English & Dutch
Hardcover
29,5 x 23 cm
247 coloured images
Graphic Design: Tim Peters & Sergio De Beukelaer
Published by Bruno Devos & Sergio De Beukelaer
Distributed by HOPPER&FUCHS