M HKA Ensembles

Assemblage, 63 x 173 cm.

Collection: Collection from the Belgian State, Brussels.

A dominant verticality characterizes the abstract work of Luc Peire. Of great importance is how the viewer submits to the rhythm of the verticals, an experience similar to the effect that successful architecture has. Here Peire creates, via the ingenious montage that seems to double the background, a hypnotic effect that instinctively harks back to the dynamic, shifting image that arises as one passes the double column-row of Bernini that rings the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s square. Just as minimal music suggests infinity through the repetition of a limited number of rhythmic and melodic patterns with small variations, Peire – by way of having our gaze go back and forth to take in carefully calculated differences in symmetry and subtle variations in spacing, with pauses and accelerations – successfully arrives at forming a ‘total’ image.