Jan Vanriet
Subtitle: the music boy
By: [text by Andrew Graham-Dixon, Martin Herbert, Charlotte Mullins]
Contributors: Vanriet, Jan, 1948-; Herbert, Martin, 1973-; Mullins, Charlotte; New Art Gallery Walsall
Publisher: Roberto Polo Gallery
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Brussel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781907363108
Subjects: Exhibitions; Belgian Painting
Description: The music boy' exhibition at the New Art Gallery Walsall is the artist?s first in the United Kingdom. A 168-page hardback, illustrated catalogue featuring extensive essays by Andrew Graham-Dixon and Martin Herbert, as well as a foreword by Charlotte Mullins was published on the occasion. The exhibition is titled after a quadriptych of paintings depicting the artist?s grandmother and his uncle playing an accordion. Jan Vanriet?s work mainly concerns the memory of history and the construction of pictorial surface. As Martin Herbert writes: ?Vanriet builds up his paintings in layers, and the strata of underpainting have, in his case, a polyvalent quality. In some cases they form glazes that gift the paintings with an internal glow. 00Exhibition: The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK (29.01-08.05.2016).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at New Art Gallery Walsall, January 29, 2016-May 8, 2016.