25. Els Roelandt, ‘Een zweem van lichtheid’, De FinancieelEconomische Tijd, (13 December 2000): 11.
Clearly, he did so, without compromising. In 2000 Els Roelandt lauded the second major exhibition of Van Snick at the SMAK in Ghent (the first one dating back to 1984) by claiming that the work “is still exceedingly current, and that it tells us things that perhaps today are more to the point than, say, fifteen years ago.”25 She adds suggesting that the work “has taken its time, as a perceptive viewer will notice.” More than ever, today the “sober” — the term is by Anny De Decker — yet incredibly dazzling oeuvre of Philippe Van Snick deserves to be rediscovered by the public.
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