PIETER VERMEERSCH
2020-12-07Vermeersch’s artwork feeds on all the antagonisms of the discipline, seeking, for example, to be both !gurative (it always has a photographic source, and these photographs are always made by Vermeersch, even when they are what he calls “accidental”) and abstract (because these “accidental” photographs often only have to o”er a few informal color variations). Even when the canvas is “abstract,” it is paradoxically fabricated as a photorealistic painting, the photographic image being reproduced in it through a meticulous system of grids. Of the canvas, it
sometimes only retains the format, leading it towards other media: in the Paris exhibition, the !rst room includes silkscreen prints on marble and the last room displays a set of oil paintings on fossilized wood, a wood that, as Vermeersch puts it, time has “mineralized.” In the marble silkscreen prints, “matter becomes image” in favor of an “industrialization of pointillism.”
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2021
Perrotin
76 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France
