Jef Verheyen

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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. 

Jef Verheyen

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(c)Jef Verheyen, photo: Axel Vervoordt - Jef Verheyen Archive
• 0096 • Nul part ailleurs, 1964
Private Collection, France
Painting , ø 114 cm, 140 x 140 cm with wooden box
matt lacquer on fibreboard, mounted in wooden box
References

  • Jef Verheyen, Le peintre flamant / Dirk Pörschmann & Tijs Visser. - Brussels : ASA Publishers, 2010. - 256 p. : ill. ; 23 x 23 cm

  • Jef Verheyen 'Lux est Lex' / Freddy De Vree. - Wijnegem : Axel Vervoordt, 2004. - 160 p. : ill. ; 35 x 28 cm

  • Jef Verheyen : Retrospectieve / K.J. Geirlandt. - Brussel : Vereniging voor Tentoonstellingen van het Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, 1979. -  : ill. ; 29,5 x 21 cm

  • Wend von Kalnein (ed.), Kreislauf der Farben, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (28.09.1973 - 11.11.1973), Düsseldorf: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1973.

  • Kontrasten 47/67 - Schilderkunst in België (België, Antwerpen). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.]. - 263 p. : ill. ; 21,5 cm x 21,1 cm

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