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 - ARCHIVE

(c) Scan: CKV, 2021 - Jef Verheyen Archive
Pour une peinture non plastique (softcover), 1967
Jef Verheyen Archive
Book , 28 x 18.2 cm
ink on paper, softcover

Pour une peinture non plastique is

a collection of texts, compiled by

Jef Verheyen in 1959 and including

an essay by him. The cahier was first

self-published in 1960 (loose-leaf,

perforated, with brass rings). The cahier

starts with the words of Paul

Cézanne and then quotes Guy Vaes,

Joseph Joubert, Henry Miller, Ivo

Michiels, Paul van Ostaijen,

Heraclitus, Plato, Lao Tseu, Henri

Poincaré, Aristotle, Empedocles,

Parmenides.

Originally printed in 1960. Reprinted with an introduction by Henri-Floris Jespers in 1967 in softcover as well in hardcover, with sliding case.  The cahier has been lay-outed by Wout Vercammen.