Inside the Image, 2010
Body Power, 2009
The Entering, 2010
Dr. Hugo Heyrman / inside the image
14 November 2010 - 9 January 2011
Gallery De Zwarte Panter, Antwerp - Belgium
Vernissage, saturday november 13th at 4:00-10:00 pm. Open from thursday till sunday from 1:30-6:00 pm. Closed on 30-31/12 and 1-2/1/2011
Hoogstraat 70-72-74 tel: 0032 (03) 233 13 45
The exhibition 'Inside the image' comprises more than forty paintings, including fifteen works on paper.
"What fascinates me are the nuances, intonations and modulations between the unique (subjective) and general (objective), the tension between the inner and outer world. I paint the interaction between things."
The intensification of the gaze
With his work Dr. Hugo Heyrman explores the physical, visual and conceptual boundaries of an image. Since the 1960s he has emerged as one of the most important painters of his generation. His artistic achievements are based on a series of paintings, including 'To Perceive the Perception' (1975), 'A Vision is finer than a View' (1986), 'Cinematic' (2003) and 'City Life & Body Language' (2008). A central concept in his work is the appearance and disappearance of images; the temporality of atmosphere, perspective, reflections, shadows and traces. Another returning theme is the fragility of modern life, whereby the body language of human emotions are situated against a background of changing urban existence.
Images of images
Some paintings are fragments from other paintings, for example 'Visibility #1' and 'Visibility #2', both are details from the larger work 'Snow Gaze' (2010). Heyrman says, "The act of painting leads me to other dimensions within the image, it opens up new imaginative meanings." In the exhibition we can experience these intentions, translated into matter, form, colour, light and transparency. The artist takes you along on a psychogeographical journey, making you aware of the fact that in the experience of a small world you can discover the whole world.
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