Friends by Johan Van Dijck

Location: Mechelen

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Vendor: Jo Van Dijck

Description

After intense observation and reflection, the artist has been developing an artistic investigation since 2013, mainly in the Spanish Pyrenees, to visualise his vision of man, landscape and temporality. 

Intertwined scenes of fragmented still lifes, landscapes and figures, as an attempt to capture the "condition humaine" in one single image, in a single moment in time.

Like a "Guernica" of relationships, loaded with new content, spontaneous and instinctive beyond dimension and time. Sometimes full of zest for life and colour, sometimes rough and naked like unpainted wood, as if to reveal in our vulnerability and the alienation within ourselves. An emotionally charged event: what is shown here is as important as what was left out.

The constructivist approach to form and design, in image and painting, recalls the work of old masters. A reinterpretation of a universal theme, paradisiacal longing, through an architectural construction and formal language.

The past is present in the present, but also as an element of the future.