Research Catalog

Walter Swennen : works on paper / [text, Bart Verschaffel ; translation, Helen Simpson].

Title
Walter Swennen : works on paper / [text, Bart Verschaffel ; translation, Helen Simpson].
Author
Swennen, Walter, 1946-
Publication
Brussel : Xavier Hufkens Galerie, [2014]

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Additional Authors
  • Galerie Xavier Hufkens (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Simpson, Helen (Translator)
  • Verschaffel, Bart
Description
137 p. : col. ill.; 19 cm.
Summary
Walter Swennen started his artistic life as a poet, but switched to painting as his primary means of expression in the early 1980s. Although his oeuvre varies greatly in scale, style, and materials, it can be seen as an ongoing exploration into the nature, potentialities, and limitations of painting, the fundamental question of what subject matter to choose, and how to depict it. Swennen is recognised for his experimental and associative approach to painting, in which meanings perpetually float and shift across images that recall a familiar place or situation - a place where something has happened. This compact but dense catalogue is filled with numerous such works. Exhibition: Xavier Hufkens Galerie, Brussels, Belgium (20.11.2014-17.01.2015).
Alternative Title
WS
Subject
  • Drawing, Belgian > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Drawing, Belgian > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Swennen, Walter, 1946- > Exhibitions
  • Watercolor painting, Belgian > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Watercolor painting, Belgian > 21st century > Exhibitions
Note
  • Chiefly illustrated.
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, November 20, 2014-January 17, 2015.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9789491245107
  • 9491245104