Jef Verheyen

The Belgian ZERO artist Jef Verheyen (1932-1984) became known as the painter of light streams and colour spectra. He experimented not only with light, but also with movement and the invisible as means to evoke natural mechanisms and to reveal universal interrelationships between human beings and the surrounding world. He used geometric principles – his passion for geometry was born out of his interest in mathematics and (Greek) philosophy – as the basis for harmony. Verheyen never gave up on traditional media and materials such as the canvas, paint, and brushes to search for the essence of our nature.

Gerhard Richter

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Jef Verheyen's Liber Amicis, 1962-1984

Jef Verheyen Archive

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mixed media on bound paper

More than just a painter. Verheyen was an unfettered modernist, a late-called homo universalis and internationalist whose importance as a link between the Belgian and international art worlds can hardly be overestimated. The latter is certainly evidenced by the Liber Amicis, preserved in the archives and thus far never made available, in which Jef Verheyen gave his network of friends from home and abroad the opportunity to speak. The Liber Amicis has contributions from Piero Manzoni, Gotthard Graubner, Günther Uecker and Christian Megert, among others.

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