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.

Ivo Michiels

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157 Jef Verheyen 40 (ed. 220), 1972

Gerhard and Anna Lenz, Lenz Schönberg Collection, Schönberg, Austria

Multiple , 43 x 43 x 4 cm box, 40 x 40 cm each serigraph

Book multiple containing 4 serigrpahs, 180 pages book with texts, photographs and colour illustrations. Package: white cardboard box inside chromed aluminium box finished with a printed tricolour laser, bookmultiple

White cardboard box inside chromed aluminium box (chromium-plated metal sheet) finished with a printed tricolour laser.

Inside the box, a linen slipcase includes 4 light bow serigraphs by Jef Verheyen, two of them with a laser. They are numbered from A to D, signed and labeled on the reverse.

The serigraphs are followed by Ivo Michiels's text 'Jef Verheyen, schilder. Ook een verhaal'; a double-paged photograph by Frank Philippi of a landscape; and a book with a historical overview.

Published on the occasion of Jef Verheyen's 40th birthday on 7 July 1972.

Edited by Liliane E. Staal and designed by Paul Ibou

Published by Multi-Art Press International, 1972. The book was presented in the Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, on 7 July 1972.

Edition of 220 + extra copies numbered with roman numerals.

All four lithographs are numbered, signed and dated: "A" to "D", "/220", "Jef Verheyen 72"

References

The Zero Era: The Lenz Schönberg Collection, Vol. 1, 2009.
The Zero Era: The Lenz Schönberg Collection, Vol. 2, 2009.
Jef Verheyen - Met Boog en Pijl in de Vlakte / Frank Heirman. - Borgerhout : S&S Galerie, 2013. - niet-genummerd van 56 niet-genummerde exemplaren. - : ill. ; 24 x 16.4 cm

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