Philippe Van Snick - 1985
Philippe Van Snick is one of the foremost contemporary Belgian artists. His workcombines the heritage of modern abstract art and the conceptual enunciates of the seventies, delving into a field of speculations on the perception of the world and life. Even though Van Snick’s work has been repeatedly considered from the perspective of painting fundamentals, recent reviews of his oeuvre have shed light on hisrecurrent experimentations, straddling fields as distinct as conceptual photography, film, installation, artist’s books, or site-specific projects. Like a spiral, the work of Philippe Van Snick unfolds continually from the infinitesimal to that which transcendsus. Encompassing not only mathematical strictness but also an experimentalism thatembraces the element of chance in life, his artistic propositions are poetical and unconventional, at once dense and light-hearted, empathic and desiring of the world, silent and dynamic.
His work is in the museum collections of MoMA, New York (US), Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (PT), Mu.ZEE, Ostend (BE), M HKA, Antwerp (BE), S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE) and various private & corporate collections in Europe, USA and Latin-America. He presented solo exhibitions at, amongst others, M HKA, Antwerp(BE); Museum M Leuven (BE); S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE); BOZAR, Brussels (BE); De HallenHaarlem (NL); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (AU); Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen(DE); Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (CA); ART-EX’95, Oxy Gallery, Osaka (JA); Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE); Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (BE); Galeria NunoCenteno, Porto (PT); Arcade, London (UK), Exile, Vienne (AU).