We’re delighted to share that the silkscreen print by Veerle Beckers — a 9-colour replica of her painting 'Hope Road', published by Friends of S.M.A.K. and printed by Studio-Vanpoucke — is available for purchase at S.M.A.K. in Ghent or via smak.be.
VEERLE BECKERS
Hope Road, 2025
silkscreenprint in 9 colours on Arches 88, 300g
48 x 38 cm
edition of 25 + 5 AP / 2 PP | signed and numbered
published by Friends of S.M.A.K., Ghent
printed by Studio-Vanpoucke
Veerle Beckers (°1976, Ghent) lives and works in Ghent and is currently featured in the group exhibition Painting After Painting at S.M.A.K. Ghent.
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 abstraction in her work, its fundamental two-dimensional nature, her quest for clear often recognisable 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 extreme 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. (text by Birgit Cleppe, 2020 | translated by Peter Flynn)
