Walter Swennen
Subtitle: works on paper
Contributors: Galerie Xavier Hufkens (Brussels, Belgium)
Publisher: Xavier Hufkens
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Brussels, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9789491245107
Subjects: Exhibitions; Belgian Drawing; Belgian Watercolor painting
Other titles: WS
Work titles: Works
Description: Walter Swennen started his artistic life as a poet, but switched to painting as his primary means of expression in the early 1980s. Although his oeuvre varies greatly in scale, style, and materials, it can be seen as an ongoing exploration into the nature, potentialities, and limitations of painting, the fundamental question of what subject matter to choose, and how to depict it. Swennen is recognised for his experimental and associative approach to painting, in which meanings perpetually float and shift across images that recall a familiar place or situation; a place where something has happened. This compact but dense catalogue is filled with numerous such works. Exhibition: Xavier Hufkens Galerie, Brussels, Belgium (20.11.2014-17.01.2015).

Walter Swennen started his artistic life as a poet, but switched to painting as his primary means of expression in the early 1980s. Although his oeuvre varies greatly in scale, style, and materials, it can be seen as an ongoing exploration into the nature, potentialities, and limitations of painting, the fundamental question of what subject matter to choose, and how to depict it. Swennen is recognised for his experimental and associative approach to painting, in which meanings perpetually float and shift across images that recall a familiar place or situation &#x96; a place where something has happened. This compact but dense catalogue is filled with numerous such works. 00Exhibition: Xavier Hufkens Galerie, Brussels, Belgium (20.11.2014-17.01.2015).
Notes: "This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition Works on Paper by Walter Swennen at Xavier Hufkens, 107 rue St-Georges, Brussels from 20 November 2014 to 17 January 2015."--Colophon.