Jef Verheyen

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 - Window on Infinity

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676 • Stelatex (ed. 25), 1966

Multiple , 49,5 x 34,5 cm

Ink and mixed media on cardboard

Advertising cardboard by Stelatex (Levis) onto wich Jef Verheyen has his name printed in capitals, along the announcement of his solo exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels. The backside of the cardboard is marked by a tax stamp by the city of Vilvoorde, Levis' headquarters at that time.

Edition of 25, numbered and signed.

The production of this edition was probably managed by the artist himself.

References

Jef Verheyen - Met Boog en Pijl in de Vlakte / Frank Heirman. - Borgerhout : S&S Galerie, 2013. - niet-genummerd van 56 niet-genummerde exemplaren. - : ill. ; 24 x 16.4 cm
Jan Ceuleurs (ed.), Van natuur naar abstractie - De la nature à l'abstraction, Ronny Van de Velde/Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp/Knokke: Ronny Van de Velde, 2016.

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