Expo Dirk De Bruycker (1955-2015)
Dirk De Bruycker
° Gent (België) 1955 ~ + Santa Fee (New Mexico)
Dirk De Bruycker werd geboren in Gent in 1955. Hij studeerde er aan het Sint-Lucas Instituut voor Beeldende Kunst en aan de Stedelijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Sint-Niklaas.
In de V.S. studeerde hij verder aan ondermeer het Tamarinde Institute in Albuquerque.
Hij maakt sinds 199ote abstracte doeken in een gemengde techniek van gips, teer, kleurpigmenten in olie en enamel. Zijn schilderijen zijn tegelijkertijd explosief en contemplatief en zijn werkwijze uniek en onconventioneel.
De Bruycker, die deeltijds in Nicaragua woont, zei hierover: "I think some of the intensity and sensuality of Latin America has crept into my work. There is a feeling of unease here below the surface that is palpable and yet it is so beautiful here. The force of life here is so strong; it permeates everything- you can literally hear things grow. I think it is some of that intensity of life, which is very different from my cooler northern European sensibilities, that I have allowed to surface in the paintings." (bron: essay geschreven door voor David Clemmer).
In liep in het Gentse Caermersklooster een fel gesmaakte retrospectieve tentoonstelling van De Bruyckers werk. Openbaar Kunstbezit in Vlaanderen schreef toen: "Zijn techniek herinnert aan grote namen als Morris Louis, Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski en Helen Frankenthaler, maar hij voegt er een verzengend element aan toe. De schilderijen suggereren vloeistof en vuur, verschroeide aarde, zonnevlekken, explosieve bronnen of vulkanische eruptie."
Bron: TheArtServer.org (persbericht) – juli
Expo van 3/03/ tot en met 3/ op vrijdag en zaterdag van 14 tot 18u of na afspraak.
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Dirk De Bruycker
° Ghent (Belgium) 1955 ~ + Santa Fee (New Mexico)
The formal influence of certain of Dirk De Bruycker's antecedents is readily apparent while that of other forebears is more felt than seen, more conceptual than material. His kinship with the groundbreaking mid-century American abstractionists is notable and he cites the works of Willem deKooning, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollack, and Barnett Newman as being of particular importance. Techniques of staining the canvas and pouring of paint, that De Bruycker has long utilized, are strategies that connect his aesthetic Dna to that of Pollock, Rothko, Arshile Gorky, and to the Color Field school painters Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler.
De Bruycker's method is a unique and unconventional process that has evolved over decades of studio practice and experimentation. A progression of distinct phases begins with the application of an underlying structure, painted with thinned asphaltum onto raw cotton duck canvas. This is the only stage of the process in which De Bruycker makes use of a brush. Applications of pigment, cobalt drier, paint thinner and gesso follow; the canvas is scraped with improvised squeegees, then tilted and rotated to direct the flow of color. The painting is periodically set aside to dry, allowing the media to interact and some of the underlying imagery to migrate up throughout the layers.
When asked how the environment influences his aesthetic, De Bruycker says, "I think some of the intensity and sensuality of Latin America has crept into my work. There is a feeling of unease here below the surface that is palpable and yet it is so beautiful here. The force of life here is so strong; it permeates everything- you can literally hear things grow. I think it is some of that intensity of life, which is very different from my cooler northern European sensibilities, that I have allowed to surface in the paintings."
Peder Kolind, a Danish citizen who now calls Granada home, has amassed the largest single collection of De Bruycker's work, referred to as the "La Bocona" collection". The paintings, which span a period of 18 years, reveal the development and application of what De Bruycker calls the "painterly logic" that guides his work. The painterly logic is at the heart of De Bruycker's work and it describes not only his process of instinctive physicality and precision but the life of the artist as well - "solitary creativity, living like a cat, capitalizing on the moments of focus." The vicissitudes of chance are welcome. The interaction between instinct and expertise becomes organic to the point where the consciousness of the act of decision making falls away and the painterly logic takes over.
Excerpts from the essay, Dirk De Bruycker at La Bocona, by David Clemmer
The expo can be visited on Fridays and Saturdays between 14.00 and 18.00 or on appointment, from 3/03/ until 3/.
° Gent (België) 1955 ~ + Santa Fee (New Mexico)
Dirk De Bruycker werd geboren in Gent in 1955. Hij studeerde er aan het Sint-Lucas Instituut voor Beeldende Kunst en aan de Stedelijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Sint-Niklaas.
In de V.S. studeerde hij verder aan ondermeer het Tamarinde Institute in Albuquerque.
Hij maakt sinds 199ote abstracte doeken in een gemengde techniek van gips, teer, kleurpigmenten in olie en enamel. Zijn schilderijen zijn tegelijkertijd explosief en contemplatief en zijn werkwijze uniek en onconventioneel.
De Bruycker, die deeltijds in Nicaragua woont, zei hierover: "I think some of the intensity and sensuality of Latin America has crept into my work. There is a feeling of unease here below the surface that is palpable and yet it is so beautiful here. The force of life here is so strong; it permeates everything- you can literally hear things grow. I think it is some of that intensity of life, which is very different from my cooler northern European sensibilities, that I have allowed to surface in the paintings." (bron: essay geschreven door voor David Clemmer).
In liep in het Gentse Caermersklooster een fel gesmaakte retrospectieve tentoonstelling van De Bruyckers werk. Openbaar Kunstbezit in Vlaanderen schreef toen: "Zijn techniek herinnert aan grote namen als Morris Louis, Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski en Helen Frankenthaler, maar hij voegt er een verzengend element aan toe. De schilderijen suggereren vloeistof en vuur, verschroeide aarde, zonnevlekken, explosieve bronnen of vulkanische eruptie."
Bron: TheArtServer.org (persbericht) – juli
Expo van 3/03/ tot en met 3/ op vrijdag en zaterdag van 14 tot 18u of na afspraak.
__________________________________________
Dirk De Bruycker
° Ghent (Belgium) 1955 ~ + Santa Fee (New Mexico)
The formal influence of certain of Dirk De Bruycker's antecedents is readily apparent while that of other forebears is more felt than seen, more conceptual than material. His kinship with the groundbreaking mid-century American abstractionists is notable and he cites the works of Willem deKooning, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollack, and Barnett Newman as being of particular importance. Techniques of staining the canvas and pouring of paint, that De Bruycker has long utilized, are strategies that connect his aesthetic Dna to that of Pollock, Rothko, Arshile Gorky, and to the Color Field school painters Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler.
De Bruycker's method is a unique and unconventional process that has evolved over decades of studio practice and experimentation. A progression of distinct phases begins with the application of an underlying structure, painted with thinned asphaltum onto raw cotton duck canvas. This is the only stage of the process in which De Bruycker makes use of a brush. Applications of pigment, cobalt drier, paint thinner and gesso follow; the canvas is scraped with improvised squeegees, then tilted and rotated to direct the flow of color. The painting is periodically set aside to dry, allowing the media to interact and some of the underlying imagery to migrate up throughout the layers.
When asked how the environment influences his aesthetic, De Bruycker says, "I think some of the intensity and sensuality of Latin America has crept into my work. There is a feeling of unease here below the surface that is palpable and yet it is so beautiful here. The force of life here is so strong; it permeates everything- you can literally hear things grow. I think it is some of that intensity of life, which is very different from my cooler northern European sensibilities, that I have allowed to surface in the paintings."
Peder Kolind, a Danish citizen who now calls Granada home, has amassed the largest single collection of De Bruycker's work, referred to as the "La Bocona" collection". The paintings, which span a period of 18 years, reveal the development and application of what De Bruycker calls the "painterly logic" that guides his work. The painterly logic is at the heart of De Bruycker's work and it describes not only his process of instinctive physicality and precision but the life of the artist as well - "solitary creativity, living like a cat, capitalizing on the moments of focus." The vicissitudes of chance are welcome. The interaction between instinct and expertise becomes organic to the point where the consciousness of the act of decision making falls away and the painterly logic takes over.
Excerpts from the essay, Dirk De Bruycker at La Bocona, by David Clemmer
The expo can be visited on Fridays and Saturdays between 14.00 and 18.00 or on appointment, from 3/03/ until 3/.
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