Marc Lambrechts Belgian, b. 1955
Summer, 2002
Water-based paint on clay ground on wood
105 x 105 cm
Signed, dated and titled verso
Belgian-born, New York-based artist Marc Lambrechts' fascination with cosmology and the search for our place in the Universe have surfaced repeatedly in his work over the years. Summer shows us...
Belgian-born, New York-based artist Marc Lambrechts' fascination with cosmology and the search for our place in the Universe have surfaced repeatedly in his work over the years.
Summer shows us a constellated dark sky, whose points of light establish an attractive rhythm. In the middle is a vertical gaseous white form, the Milky Way. Here the audience considers the innate beauty of nature, no matter what the scale. The skies are contained in finite dimensions, but they nevertheless explode into being. Summer is not, however, meant to be 'exact' depiction, as the artist's work is more poetry than scientific dissertation, explains Lambrechts, and it is the characteristics of these materials and the mystery of the Universal scale - the infinitely small and the infinitely big - that interest me the most in creating.
Summer shows us a constellated dark sky, whose points of light establish an attractive rhythm. In the middle is a vertical gaseous white form, the Milky Way. Here the audience considers the innate beauty of nature, no matter what the scale. The skies are contained in finite dimensions, but they nevertheless explode into being. Summer is not, however, meant to be 'exact' depiction, as the artist's work is more poetry than scientific dissertation, explains Lambrechts, and it is the characteristics of these materials and the mystery of the Universal scale - the infinitely small and the infinitely big - that interest me the most in creating.
Provenance
The Artist.
Exhibitions
2014, STARSTUFF: Paintings by Marc Lambrechts, SparkPlusArt & Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, London.
Literature
STARSTUFF: Paintings by Marc Lambrechts, exhibition catalogue, SparkPlusArt & Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, London, 2014, ill. p. 31.