Art Antwerp 2023: Group show with Veerle Beckers, Peter Morrens and Tuukka Tammisaari

14 - 17 December 2023 
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Kristof De Clercq gallery is happy to present works by gallery artists Veerle Beckers, Peter Morrens and Tuukka Tammisaari at Art Antwerp 2023.

 

VEERLE BECKERS (1976, Belgium) 

Despite its immediacy, Beckers’s work is not photographic. It doesn’t want to ‘tie things down’ irrefutably. Beckers’s brush technique is not used to create a meticulously realistic account of things. Consciously not, for Beckers has all the technical skill to do so if she wishes. The ab- straction in her work, its fundamental two-dimensional nature, her quest for clear often recog- nisable or even universal forms or figures: it all seems to be rooted in a deeper wish to develop a simple understandable language. Her own language, a language that has the right to exist alongside the many other languages in the art of painting that Beckers so fluently masters. And that language springs from a wonderful combination of abstracting gaze and one of ex- treme closeness. The former isolates things from their normal surroundings and tries to pare them down to their essence. The latter tries to make their fragile specificity even more tangible. (fragment from a text by Birgit Cleppe on Veerle Beckers, 2020)

 

PETER MORRENS (1965, Belgium)

Peter Morrens is working on a multifaceted oeuvre, comprising of drawings, photographs, installations and performances, through which he gives form to his fascinations for sensuality, the experience of time, sexuality, destruction, fetishism, unrest, rhythm, reversal, and transgression. Ambiguity, absurdity, but also confused and confusing language and an inappropriate sense of humour are his key sources. Morrens’ practice is driven by intuition: in a playful, probing way he finds, selects and reworks images. Using pencil, charcoal, graphite or paint, images and compositions are constructed and attacked, worked on, tampered with, distorted, erased. Perception itself, but also the viewer’s precise position are central concerns in Morrens’ work. The artist seems to offer us a window to the world, or to create an illusion of such a prospect. An image is that which shifts between viewer and reality. Morrens very often reprises older works in order to consciously disrupt the chronology of his oeuvre. The passage of time is thereby made to speed up or slow down, to be transformed, and freeze.
 

TUUKKA TAMMISAARI (1984, Finland)

The intuitive visual language in the canvases and drawings by Tuukka Tammisaari (1984, Finland) balances between abstraction and figuration. Always starting from a source of inspiration such as nature, psychology, (art) history and popular culture, Tammisaari captures his own impressions of shapes, colors, stories and images in his typically rough brushstrokes. The titles are a guideline for what lies behind the different layers of paint and overlapping geometrical surfaces and motifs. There is a playful and poetic dynamic in the way he surprisingly combines his palette of sometimes earthly, often lively color tones. His work is included in private collections in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Iceland, the Netherlands and the USA.

 

LOCATION

Antwerp Expo | booth B09

Jan van Rijswijcklaan 191
2020 Antwerp

 

OPENING HOURS

Preview x Vernissage | 14 December 2023

Preview | 11am – 4pm

Vernissage | 4pm – 9pm

 

Public days | 15 + 16 + 17 December 2023 | 11am - 7pm

 

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