Axel Vervoordt
Galerie Bernard
Jos Macken
• 0070 • Cathédrale de la Lumière, 1960
Painting, 97 x 130 cm, 107 x 141 cm with frame.
©Jef Verheyen, photo: Axel Vervoordt - Jef Verheyen Archive
Collection: Axel and May Vervoordt Foundation.
[...] In both operational and theoretical terms, these are somewhat eccentric positions to put forward in a European context, where the point of reference was still the pictorial dimension: a dimension which Verheyen himself was to resolve in a different and more evocative direction, in a sort of chromatic pantheism which receives spatial and light-related stimuli in a quite different way, leading to an explosion of flows of light and cathedrals of light, which, in their very titles, bespeak his particular vocation and frame of reference. [...]
Source: Francesca Pola, 'Bodies of light and dialectics of the immaterial. Spazialismo, Essentialisme, Achrome' in Jef Verheyen and Friends, exh. cat., 2010: p. 157.
Around 1966 – 1967, Jef Verheyen would paint Lichtkathedralen (Light Cathedrals).
Artists
> Jef Verheyen.
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Axel Vervoordt.
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Galerie Bernard.
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Jos Macken.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
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> Exhibition: Jef Verheyen Retrospectieve. Musée Rath - Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 19 April 1980 - 20 May 1980.
> 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.
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> Exhibition: Jef Verheyen and Friends. Langen Foundation, Neuss, 11 September 2010 - 16 January 2011.
> Exhibition: Retrospectieve Jef Verheyen 1932-1984. PMMK Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend, 26 March 1994 - 13 June 1994.
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> Exhibition: Jef Verheyen Retrospectieve. Paleis voor Schone Kunsten / Paleis des Beau-Arts, Brussels, 14 September 1979 - 28 October 1979.
> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - OEUVRE.
> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - Works from the 1960s.
> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - Public Collections.
Related Items
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>Jan Hoet, Jef Verheyen, (my private) Heroes , 2005.Book, ink on paper, 25,5 x 20,8 cm.
>Willy Van den Bussche, Jef Verheyen, Retrospectieve Jef Verheyen 1932-1984 , 1994.Book, ink on paper, 30 x 24,5 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, Freddy De Vree, Axel Vervoordt, Lux est Lex, 2004.Book, ink on paper, 35 x 28 cm.