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 - OEUVRE

(c)Jef Verheyen, photo: ? - Private Collection, Jef Verheyen Archive
• 0057 • Vibratie, 1959
Private
Painting , 92 x 73 cm
Oil paint and silver pigment on canvas

This series of works (we know of three similar works) is made by posing nylon onto the wet painted canvas, and after being dried up, the nylon has been teared of to obtain the vibrating effect of waves. 

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

  • Méfiez-vous de l'art, exh. cat., published by Helmut Dudé (Collection Helmut Dudé), 1991