All the beauty of minimalism, in Luc Peire as in Edouard Vermeulen

Luc Peire, the painter of verticality

Edouard Vermeulen, artistic director of the Natan fashion house, is the commissioner of a beautiful small exhibition until January 4 where he mixes some of his creations-dresses, coat, pants, facts of magnificent materials-with many works by Luc Peire, this minimalist obsessed with vertical and colors, but also to works by other artists, coming from the Muzee d’Ostende.

These guest artists are all beauty minimalism, luc peire often also minimalists: Walter Leblanc, Dan Van Severen, Raoul de Keyser, Jef Verheyen, Marcel-Louis Baugniet (two very beautiful paintings from 1930), Gerhard Richter (a small ball making mirror), Luc Tuymans (a little painting, Clouds, of its beginnings in 1986), etc.

Edouard Vermeulen combines the color of his dresses with that of Luc Peire’s paintings. Similarly, or evokes the similarity of the lines (the exhibition is also called “Inspiration lines“).

In this beautiful-workshop, you can meditate in front of the paintings and drawings of Luc Peire and other artists. Therefore, And in his workshop as he was when he worked there.

Dizzy

If there was only one work to see. it would be Environmenta large cube that he made in the late 1960s and in which Edouard Vermeulen placed a gold color star dress that is infinitely reflected in mirrors.

The cube is in a special garden building. We enter to discover the four walls filled with white and black lines like barcodes, announcing theOn art. The floor and the ceiling are mirrors referring to infinity the image of the visitor. The result is all beauty minimalism, luc peire staggering: we are like suspended in an absolute void upwards as down. Luc Peire said: “The visitor feels detached from everything that holds him to reality. alone with himself and the essence of the work. “

Luke Peire seduced by the rigor of the subject. the momentum of verticality (sign for him of the stature of man), by a work which was never austere or severe because the economy of means goes with him to peer with real vibrational energy. The lines, the rhythm, the light, the architecture of the canvas came from an extreme stylization process of reality.

With an abstract aspect, his paintings wanted to show the universality of man by his verticality which characterizes him. The depth is given by stopping the vertical lines before the lower edge of the table. The pictorial illusion can play 3D between plans, spaces and architectural device. Each time, the painting has a dominant color: red, blue, yellow, but never green.

At Zoute. with entrenchment, two oasis of art and calm

“Lines of inspiration”, Foundation Luc Peire, of Judestraat 64, Knokke (next to the municipal square). Until January 4. During the Flemish school holidays, open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Outside the holidays, all beauty minimalism, luc peire open from Thursday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. See www.peiremuzee.be