ABOUT THE FAIR

Galerie Ron Mandos is proud to present a solo presentation at Art Brussels 2023 by the Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck. This presentation includes recent watercolor paintings that envisage fictional nocturnal spaces, as well as a number of sculptural works, such as a bas-relief of a seascape and the elegant hands of a lady placing a laurel wreath on an imaginary head. As in the watercolors, these sculptures revolve around universal subjects, empathetic actions, and reflections.

Over the past twenty years Op de Beeck realized numerous monumental ‘sensorial’ installations, in which he evoked what he describes as ‘visual fictions’: tactile deserted spaces as an empty set for the viewer to walk through or sit down in, sculpted havens for introspection.

Practical Information Art Brussels 2023
Dates: 21 – 23 April | 11 AM – 7 PM
Location: Brussels Expo, Halls 5 & 6, Place de la Belgique 1, 1020 Brussels
Booth: Number 5E-19
More practical information and tickets: click here.

Our fair presentation is kindly supported by the Mondriaan Fund.

ABOUT Hans Op de Beeck

Hans Op de Beeck was born in 1969 in Turnhout, Belgium. He lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

Hans Op de Beeck produces large installations, sculptures, films, drawings, paintings, photographs and texts. His work is a reflection on our complex society and the universal questions of meaning and mortality that resonate within it. He regards man as a being who stages the world around him in a tragi-comic way. Above all, Op de Beeck is keen to stimulate the viewers’ senses, and invite them to really experience the image. He seeks to create a form of visual fiction that delivers a moment of wonder and silence.

Over the past twenty years Op de Beeck realized numerous monumental ‘sensorial’ installations, in which he evoked what he describes as ‘visual fictions’: tactile deserted spaces as an empty set for the viewer to walk through or sit down in, sculpted havens for introspection. In many of his films though, in contrast with those depopulated spaces, he prominently depicts anonymous characters.

Hans Op de Beeck was born in Turnhout in 1969. He lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Op de Beeck has shown his work extensively in solo and group exhibitions around the world.

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