As an artist, Raphaël Buedts (1946 -2009) discretely built up an impressive oeuvre, drifting with ease between sculpture, drawing, painting; landscape, furniture-making and clothing-pattern designs. His subtle shifts between abstraction and tactility and between function and form demonstrate an uncommon lucidity and rare poetic skill. Published on the occasion of a monographic exhibition in the S.M.A.K., Raphaël Buedts provides an extensive overview of the art Buedts created from the 1970s until just before his death, including textual contributions from Lies Daenen, Roland Jooris, Luk Lambrecht, Frank Maes, Marco Meneguzzo, Tom Van de Voorde, Wim Van Mulders and Philippe Van Cauteren.
As an artist, Raphaël Buedts (1946 -2009) discretely built up an impressive oeuvre, drifting with ease between sculpture, drawing, painting; landscape, furniture-making and clothing-pattern designs. His subtle shifts between abstraction and tactility and between function and form demonstrate an uncommon lucidity and rare poetic skill. Published on the occasion of a monographic exhibition in the S.M.A.K., Raphaël Buedts provides an extensive overview of the art Buedts created from the 1970s until just before his death, including textual contributions from Lies Daenen, Roland Jooris, Luk Lambrecht, Frank Maes, Marco Meneguzzo, Tom Van de Voorde, Wim Van Mulders and Philippe Van Cauteren.