Eddy De Vos
(°1950, Schoten, Belgium) 		© 2005 Galerie Kusseneers
The latest works by Eddy De Vos are extremely fascinating to look at. He starts with well and lesser-known images, which he takes from present-day photojournalism. Images that belong in the collective memory and which, in their changed appearance, question their own meaning. By painting them in a pattern of lines – as if on a magnified television screen – which distorts the way we see them, our powers of recognition and perception are put to the test. From close up everything seems abstract, but the further the viewer moves away the more clearly visible the scenes become. By drawing inspiration from today’s digital images, his pictures look like narrative distortions of contemporary chronicling, but without adopting any point of view or making any political or moral statements. Ultimately, he leaves it to the viewer to give it meaning

Florent Bex
Brooklyn Bridge, 2004,
153 x 117 cm
Oil on canvas
Lee Harvey Oswald, 2003,
131 x 115 cm
Oil on canvas 		Killing the whales, 2004,
95 x 120 cm
Oil on canvas 		Saigon 1963, 2002,
180 x 110
Oil on canvas