(cat.) and (cat.)(draw.) Sergio De Beukelaer
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This limited and signed product brings together two artist's books by Sergio De Beukelaer: (cat.) and (cat.)(draw.) the first print of (cat.) is sold out. (cat.)(draw.) presents the prequel to the final result. Discover how an artist plots his designs and handles his archive of drawings. This book 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. Limited edition of 100 copies bringing together (cat.) and (cat.)(draw.) by Sergio De Beukelaer. Numbered and signed on the case.
Sergio De Beukelaer uses numerous codes of post-modernistic art from the 1960s and 1970s, such as abstraction, geometry, monochrome, and the “hard edge” technique and he does so with irony and playfulness. The artist has been working on a self-confident and uncompromising oeuvre of paintings for over 20 years. The work of Sergio De Beukelaer appears simple and colorful but unites all kinds of apparent contradictions. Although his painting looks sleek, formal, geometric, and abstract, it always starts with a strong desire for reality. It is not the reality itself that interests him. He is concerned with a translation thereof. Through visual thinking and acting, he always achieves a certain form of abstraction within the formal framework of painting. Seemingly effortless, his art navigates between surface and space, text and image, intellectual seriousness and playful irony, painting and sculpture. Via the original and inimitable concept of the fat canvas, a three-dimensional painting, the artist breaks down the boundaries of classical painting. His paintings appropriate the space and generate a powerful visual impact on their environment. (cat.) is a bold and beautiful monograph of paintings and installations that look simple but combine a variety of paradoxes.
Number of pages: 324 + 320
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