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Hans Vandekerckhove

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Hans Vandekerckhove is a true painter, who focuses on motives with strong traditional ties in Western expressive art: the Rückenfigur, the gardener, the garden and horticulture, glasshouses, bridges and related architectural motives, the Hiëronymus motive, the girl figure, the romantic landscape, the totem animal, the sacra conversatione and the Annunciation motive.
He is a romantic and individualist whose work evolved from a neo-expressionist style (early 80ies) to a nearly abstract image inspired by alchemistic motives (90ies), and from 1998 to return to the figurative and content-based themes. For example, Vandekerckhove concentrates on the picture relationship between motive and background, and human and surroundings.
His paintings are contemplative, ascetic works that cause a certain disruption. However, they are at the same time attractive without the alienation of surrealism. As a human and as an artist, he has a strong relationship with nature and tries to tell a story about this as a visual poet.


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Bankside Birches 1
Brexit Trees
A Painter's Hall
The Valley
The Visitation
Tree Nurse
Laura Maria Barcelona
Riverrun, 2006, oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm
Conversation Piece, 2005, oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm
Franky's Greenhouse, 2005, oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm
L'homme aux semelles de vent, 2005, oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Lampetten 4 Revisited, 2005, olie op doek, 190 x 190 cm
Remain in Light, 2004, oil on canvas, 190 x 142 cm
Stalker, 2004, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
Hanging Garden, 2003, oil on canvas, 190 x 142 cm
The Fine Art of Surfacing, 2003, oil on canvas, 100 x 125 cm
I'm only sleeping, 2002, oil on canvas, 190 x 190 cm
Stalking Hiëronymus, 2002, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm
The Green Whisper, 2002, oil on canvas, 190 x 190 cm
Ladders, 2001, oil on canvas, 190 x 190 cm
Sea Breezes, 2001, olie op doek, 125 x 100 cm
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