Bendt Eyckermans : selected works 2020-2025

The paintings of Belgian artist Bendt Eyckermans (b. 1994) are unsettling due to the visible tension between poetic and pragmatic visual components. For example, romantic skies are combined with shiny car bodies, a carpet is being vacuumed in the middle of the picture plane, a pair of hands floats above a woman’s head and a cameraman kneels to film what is outside the frame. The contradictory combination of expressive plastic forms and the intimate vulnerability that the characters in his work radiate is intriguing.

A friendly personage walks down the street with a mysterious object in his hand, disembodied limbs move energetically through the public space and a sculpture has fallen over peacefully. For Eyckermans, this interplay of imagination and disillusionment is a reason to create wonderfully painted and poignant scenes that give shape to the confusion of our time, but are equally anchored in art history. This new book contains some thirty works on paper and more than fifty oil paintings created over a period of five years. The book features two new essays on the painter’s work: Guillaume Blanc-Marianne discusses the mystery that surrounds the paintings, while Pietro Scammacca focuses on their cinematic qualities by framing the work within the art history of cinema. (bron: website copyrightbookshop)