WANNES LECOMPTE bij EVA STEYNEN DEVIATIONS (Antwerpen)

 

(Het is verre van ideaal voor een Art Spotter die normaal gezien op Waterschoenen door het kunstenlandschap flaneert, maar de komende tijd bekijk ik een en ander vanuit de coulissen. Ook zonder echte bezoeken wil ik toch nog wel wat interessante   artistieke initiatieven voorstellen.)

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WANNES LECOMPTE, °1979 (B), lives and works in Brussels

The painting wants to be a painting! For almost twenty years this is Wannes Lecompte's credo, celebrating the act of painting itself. And how he does! His oil on canvas is more than compositions of color, texture and rhythm. Lecompte waits in front of empty canvas, convoking and provoking chance, in voluntary slow process, until the painting presents itself. His interlacing brushstrokes, mingle, one color over the other, are packed together and surrounded by the white emptiness of the canvas.

© Wannes Lecompte

Without trying to present a figure, Lecompte his scriptural paintings reveal slowly their poetic composition. They invite us to feel their unique rhythm. The painter is a musician. He plays the drums, composing playful and colorful notes.

Lecompte's works show an intensity of the instant, that one unique moment, simultaneously slowing down and revealing the 'drums' of our times.

The visual compositions of Wannes Lecompte, presented for the first time at the gallery, arrangements of density enlarged by the emptiness, of sonorities as it is of silences.

TOT 18 DECEMBER 2021

Wannes LECOMPTE verscheen reeds meermaals in WATERSCHOENEN. 

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