Tim Volckaert - Wall Flowers

Limited Edition #1, Part of the ‘Archivist’ cyclus
Co-editie van Tim Volckaert & Stockmans Art Books
Luxueuze map met 28 pag. binnenwerk, 1 taal UK
Uitgebracht naar aanleiding van de expo ‘Any Solution is Good for an Answer’, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, nog tot 16 augustus 2020
Tekst van Hans Theys, “A Dreaming Individual in a Disenchanted World”
Concept Bruno Devos en Tim Volckaert

36 kleine afbeeldingen - 14 paginagrote afbeeldingen
Formaat pagina’s A3, 297 x 420 mm staand
Oplage 300 ex., genummerd en gesigneerd door Tim Volckaert

 

A dreaming individual in a disenchanted world.

HANS THEYS, MONTAGNE DE MIEL, July 6th 2017.

 

Here and there Volckaert has painted over a part of a reproduction, thereby revealing the composition. I ask him why he has covered the hands of three ladies with red paint. “They’ve got blood on their hands, if you ask me,” he replies. “In my opinion, the arrogance of these renaissance people is responsible for global warming. When you see them posing like peacocks against a landscape backdrop, which represents land they have conquered or acquired in some other way, I take special pleasure in having them swallowed up by the background or smothered by an invasive landscape. I call these works ‘couple pieces’ because I try to re-couple the figures with their surroundings, with the landscape or with the world. Only I don’t know exactly how I’ll do that yet. Having the landscape flow over doesn’t work. Firstly, because you just end up with a pastoral landscape and lose that captivating confrontation. Secondly, the compositions are so well-balanced that they disintegrate if you simply paint the figure out. It’s difficult to tamper with it and at the same time make a good painting.” 

 

Volckaert: “Maybe I’m looking for something like that. I don’t want to make punk-like, pamphletary works. Sometimes I think of Matisse’s tablecloth that flows into space and forms a sort of backdrop... Sometimes I’m tempted to abstract certain parts. I love abstract art, but somehow we don’t manage to make abstract art that is totally unrelated to some anecdote or story... Sometimes I work with the shape of a jigsaw puzzle. Perhaps that’s a possibility: piece things together.”