Wim Taciturn
Subtitle: 100% collages
By: textes, Elayne Boutry-Amrhein [and five others]
Contributors: Boutry-Amrhein, Elayne, contributor; Verbeke Foundation
Series: Verbeke Foundation artists' books -- 7; Verbeke Foundation artists' books -- 7.
Publisher: Verbeke Foundation
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Kemzeke, Belgique
Language: fre
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9789082520828
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions; Collage
Other titles: 100% collages
Description: André Stas, a major figure of Belgian collage, said about Taciturn: "Wim had a keen sense of layout and did not care about unnecessary additions, hitting the mark with an almost scientific economy of means. Having practiced this form of art (minor, perhaps, but much more difficult than it seems) for half a century, I now come to recognize the quality of a fellow artist's images, which is blindingly obvious when it comes to Wim." Wim Taciturn's collages talk about the consumer society, about religion, about war, about love. It is a man's view on his contemporaries and on the world surrounding him. Wim Taciturn had no basic material of choice, cutting antique prints as well as advertising magazines. This is what makes the richness of his work, the diversity of its components and the precision of the one who assembles them.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Verbeke Foundation, November 15, 2016-April 2, 2017.

In French and Dutch.