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Belgische kunstenaar Renaat Ivens

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Renaat Ivens was a Belgian artist born in 1935 in Sint-Niklaas and died in 2016 in Lier. He was a painter, draftsman, crayon painter and graphic artist. Education at the Academy in Sint-Niklaas, publicity in Oostakker/Ghent, interior design at the School for Art Crafts in Antwerp. Debuted with portraits that sometimes recall Modigliani. Evolved around 1958 towards abstraction. Painter of the spiritualized sensibility. Subtle shades of color, sometimes ethereally refined, sometimes with powerful expressionist accents, follow one another in a play with matter and form, in which sometimes the suggestion of a third dimension is present. On closer inspection, the apparent monochromy in his works turns out to be a warm skin of transparency. From the press: “The painting of R.I. is one of an extremely pure content. An art that gives rise to a contemplative approach. In a tumultuous world such as ours, a pause, an oasis of silence and wrinkle-free joy" and "The combination of word and image remains a regularly emerging phenomenon in his oeuvre in which not only words, but also letters and numbers as a fully-fledged visual sign get a place in his compositions to write with a playful wink at the viewer that Art is easy” and "The monochrome canvases of RI are the opposite of monotonous: they are lived-in works that bear witness to great subtlety”. Sometimes works with sand, jute, paper, linen, plaster in his compositions, in which vertical lines of force often dominate. Work among others in the Muhka in Antwerp, in the Print Cabinets in Brussels and Antwerp. Listed in BAS I and Two centuries of signatures by Belgian artists. (PIRON)