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: Dries Van den Brande - Private collection, Jef Verheyen Archive
• 0491 • Zwarte Schelde, 1959
Private
Painting , 81 x 100 cm
Oil paint on burlap
References

  • Retrospectieve Jef Verheyen, 1932-1984 / Willy Van den Bussche & Léonore Verheyen. - Oostende/Brugge : Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst/Stichting Kunstboek, 1994. - 158 p. : ill. ; 30 x 24.5 cm

  • Kurt De Boodt, Van uw tijd? Kunstgrepen omtrent 58, exh. cat., Hof van Busleyden Mechelen, Mechelen: Stedelijke Musea Mechelen, 2008.

  • Collection 1989,  Musée Saint Pierre Art Contemporain, Lyon: Musée Saint Pierre, 1989. 

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

  • Maurice Besset (ed.), La couleur seule. L'Experience du monochrome, exh. cat., Musée Saint Pierre Art Contemporain Lyon (07.10.1988 - 05.12.1988), Lyon: Octobre/Musée Saint Pierre, 1988. - ill., 32,2 x 25,2 cm

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