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 - Shared Works

(c)Jef Verheyen, photo: Axel Vervoordt - Jef Verheyen Archive
• 0079 • L'un et l'autre - ni l'un ni l'autre (8), 1960
Private
Painting , 81 x 100 cm
Oil paint on burlap
References
  • Jef Verheyen, Le peintre flamant / Dirk Pörschmann & Tijs Visser. - Brussels : ASA Publishers, 2010. - 256 p. : ill. ; 23 x 23 cm

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