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: Jef Verheyen Archive
• 0082 • L'un et l'autre - ni l'un ni l'autre (11), 1960
Private
Painting , 130 x 161 cm
Oil paint on canvas
References
  • Antwerpen/Bruxelles '60 : Bram Bogart - Englebert Van Anderlecht - Jef Verheyen / Dieter Schwarz. - Winterthur/Düsseldorf : Kunstmuseum Winterthur/Richter Verlag, 2002. - 149 p. : ill. ; 23 x 17 cm

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

  • 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

  • Serge Goyens de Heusch, Englebert Van Anderlecht 1918-1961, published by Mercaterfonds, 1998.