Vincent Geyskens
The Distance Between Two Points
2008
Off-set print on paper
30 × 30 cm
Edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the artist
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about this work
The Distance Between Two Points (2008) is a collage-like print that combines figurative and abstract elements, which aligns perfectly within Geyskens’ painterly practice.
about Vincent Geyskens
In his experimental explorations with paint, Vincent Geyskens problemises the medium of painting through combining abstraction and figuration, which undermines the final image of the painting. In a seemlingly effortless way, he smoothly switches from one style to another, whereby Geyskens not only questions the medium but also subverses our observational habits. According to Geyskens, it has no importance whether a painting is figurative or abstract. He is rather interested in the physical and material nature of the painting itself and applies this to both his figurative and his abstract works.
Geyskens’ artistic practice starts from a continuous research to the formal fundaments of painting and its difficult position within the contemporary consumer society. His paintings usually originate very consciously and often have, though subtle, a ironic, polemic effect. They visualize the problematic character of constructing images in a period that is subjected to the inflation of pictures and habituation.
Among others, Vincent Geyskens has had solo exhibitions in S.M.A.K., Ghent; Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; Annette De Keyser, Antwerp; and Envoy Gallery, New York.
His work has also been shown in several group exhibitions including Everything You Can Imagine Is Real… at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Un-scene at WIELS, Brussels; Figge Von Rosen, Cologne; and Galerie Almine Rech, Brussels.
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