Raoul De Keyser: Terminus: Drawings (1979-1982) and Recent Paintings - Hardcover

Raoul De Keyser; Robert Storr

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 386930054X ISBN 13: 9783869300542

Publisher: Steidl, 2011

Synopsis

This book contains two complimentary bodies of Raoul de Keysers work: paintings mostly from 2008 and 2009, and drawings made between 1979 and 1982 in diverse media including pencil, ink, watercolour, acrylic and oil chalk. Modest in size, de Keysers spare works posses an intimacy that derives from the physical characteristics of his chosen media and the tensions between surface and depth, figure and ground.

About this title

About the Author:

For nearly fifty years, Raoul De Keyser (1930-2012) created subtly evocative paintings and works on paper which appear at once straightforward and cryptic, abstract and figurative. Composed of basic but indefinable shapes and marks, his works often invoke spatial and figural illusions, though they remain elusive of any descriptive narrative. Despite--or precisely because of--their sparse gesturing, De Keyser's works convey a grandeur that inspires prolonged contemplation. Individually as well as collectively, his works revolve around the activity of painting, but also move beyond its physical means to become more than the sum of their parts. Their apparent simplicity belies a lengthy gestation period, which is guided largely by intuition, rather than by following a pre-existing plan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Steidl
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 386930054X
• ISBN 13: 9783869300542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144