2009 B Philippe Van Snick lives and works in Schaerbeek, Brussels.
R — Peter Sloterdijk : Sferen, Amsterdam, Boom, 2003. — Herman De Dijn : Spinoza. De doornen en de roos, Kapellen, Pelckmans and Klement, 2009. TH / — Blauwe kolom [242, 283, 287], 2007-2009, acrylic on canvas, (149 × W 99 cm). The canvas is divided into three vertical bands, the
middle one being wider than the two equal ones on the side. The bands on either side are divided horizontally in two equal parts. The middle band is painted in pale blue (Dag). The bands on the side are painted in grey tones, the upper and lower halves on both sides being the same. — Zwarte kolom [242], 2007-2009, acrylic on canvas, (149 × 99 cm). The canvas is divided into three vertical bands, the middle one being wider than the two equals ones on the side. The bands on either side are divided horizontally in two equal parts. The middle band is painted black (Nacht). The bands on the side are painted in grey tones, the upper and lower halves on both sides being the same. — Blauwe kolom and Zwarte kolom are mostly exhibited as diptychs. There are five of such diptychs. — Following his interest in What is Philosophy ? by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guatarri, Ph. Van Snick uses the context of this study to realize a visual essay (video) : Percept, Affect et Concept [292], 2009, in which half a dozen canvases from the series Variaties op duotonen, 2008, are used in an animation. The film is shown during the symposium De ‘Plaats’ van de Kunst. Over de bestemming van het artistieke, Brussels, Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design, 3.3.2009 (organization : Marc Verminck).
[291] Models for Sferen, 2009
— Zonder titel, Summer 2009, series of some forty works, acrylic on paper, (41 × 32 cm). Asymmetrical Dag en Nacht representation, in which each instance has three geometrical planes (squares and rectangles), painted in pale blue (Dag), black (Nacht) + one other color, rendered on a background that was previously painted in a lyrical fashion, in which the selected color plays a dominant role. EX — Jeugdzonde. Over opus één en opus min één, Antwerp,
LLS 387 Ruimte voor actuele kunst, 19.3 – 30.5.2009. Afterward : HEDAH, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Maastricht, 5.9 – 4.10.2009. Group exhibition. Concept : Ulrike Lindmayr (in response to series of articles in De Witte Raaf, edited by Koen Brams and Dirk Pültau). Installation exhibition : Gert Verhoeven. Ph. Van Snick exhibits : Stilleven, 1960, oil on canvas on cardboard, (40 × 30 cm). [292] Percept, Affect et Concept, stills, 2009
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Chronology
2000 - 2010