1968-1969
tradition, and also mark a break from it, from that imprisoning character of traditions. A major break emerges here between the early figurative works and a more conceptual approach.
[Interview with Ph.V.S., studio, Brussels, 6.12 2009]
EX — Four Belgian Printmakers, Brighton, The Foyer. Brighton
[B] Biographical Elements [G] Galleries [R] Reading [E / I] Encounters and Influences [TH / W] Themes and Works [EX] Exhibitions [A / ED] Assignments and Editions
College of Art, 5 – 16.2 1968. Organization : Pierre Vlerick. Participants : Micheline De Potter, Pjeroo Roobjee, Josef Somerlinck, Philippe Van Snick. Catalog. In the preface by Pierre Vlerick one can read : (…) After several years of experiments in the widest possible range of etching techniques, De Potter, Roobjee, Somerlinck and Van Snick have gone back now to one of the most direct and pure means of expression : the dry point technique.(…) Obsessed by an all-encompassing sense of space, Somerlinck and Van Snick produced pure, sensitive dry point prints.(…) Static and full of erotic tension, Van Snick’s objects are not any more expressive than the elements surrounding them. They have grown rigid in their evolution. Van Snick has given shape to impressionistic life. (sic) Ph. Van Snick exhibits : 2. After Ascentional Sûthra (6) ; 3. After Ascentional Sûthra (5) ; 29. After Ascentional Sûthra (4) ; 30. After Ascentional Sûthra (3) ; 31. After Ascentional Sûthra (2) ; 32. After Ascentional Sûthra (1) [List with participants and titles works, archive Ph.V.S., Brussels]
These etchings were made in response to, and after, the similarly titled edition (see below). — Prentenkabinet. Philippe Van Snick, Ghent, Galerij Richard Foncke and Voorlichtingscentrum “Het 5 e Wiel”, 25.5 – 7.6 1968. The exhibition coincides with an exhibition of work by Pjeroo Roobjee. Ph. Van Snick exhibits drawings from 1967-1968, landscapes with heads and abstract shapes, as well as two sculptures in white plaster from 1967 (including Sculptuur uit plaaster met poppenogen), and one sculpture in wood, painted in pale blue and pink paint (the work was destroyed, the preliminary drawings still exist). A / Ascensional Sutra [238] : initiative of Paul-Armen (Polo) Sarafian ED and Philippe Van Snick, Ghent, 1968.
Collection of poems (15 copies). Text by P. Sarafian and twelve dry-points by Ph. Van Snick. Published by the artists, with the financial support of Anton Herbert.
1960 -1969
Chronology
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