• 0028 • Espace Découpé - Witte Ruimte, 1957
Painting, 65 x 81 cm.
© SABAM Belgium, 2024, Jan Liégeois on behalf of the Jef Verheyen Archive
Collection: Jef Verheyen Archive.
In Milan Verheyen expands his international network. When he exhibits at the Galleria Pater in 1958, Piero Manzoni walks in carrying white paintings. Their encounter further stimulates Verheyen’s musings about monochromy and achromy. It is during this period that he writes his manifesto Essentialisme (Essentialism). His theories are closely related to those of artists such as Günther Uecker, Otto Piene, Hermann Goepfert, Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein. The latter, for example, initially works in achrome white before pursuing his famous blue pigment. In letters, Klein and Verheyen debate the invention and objectives of monochrome and achrome painting.
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> Jef Verheyen.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Retrospectieve Jef Verheyen 1932-1984. PMMK Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend, 26 March 1994 - 13 June 1994.
> Exhibition: Retrospectieve Jef Verheyen 1932-1984. Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop, 10 July 1994 - 04 September 1994.
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> Exhibition: Lux est Lex. Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem (Kanaal), 01 March 2004 - 17 April 2004.
> Exhibition: Jef Verheyen. Window on Infinity. KMSKA, Antwerpen, 23 March 2024 - 18 August 2024.
> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - OEUVRE.
> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - Works from the 1950s.
> Ensemble: Window on Infinity - Room 03.
Related Items
>Willy Van den Bussche, Jef Verheyen, Retrospectieve Jef Verheyen 1932-1984 , 1994.Book, ink on paper, 30 x 24,5 cm.
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>Jef Verheyen, List of works stored in atelier Ten Bosch.Text, ink on paper, A4.
>Jef Verheyen, Frank Philippi, Reproduction of 'Espace Découpé. Witte Ruimte', 1959.Photography, black-and-white photograph.
>Frank Philippi, Jef Verheyen, Detail of 'Espace Découpé. Witte Ruimte', 1959.Photography, black-and-white photograph.
>Jef Verheyen, Freddy De Vree, Axel Vervoordt, Lux est Lex, 2004.Book, ink on paper, 35 x 28 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, Frank Philippi, Artist's scrapbook (Portfolio), 1948-1959.Book, collage.