Title: Marc Vanderleenen
Description: Some (artists) immediately start chatting, singing or even shouting to shatter an uncomfortable silence, while others continue repeating the silence with a stutter. This latter group of artists, who with each choice seem to have to begin again and are repeatedly reminded of the fact that once there was nothing (and one day there will also be nothing), certainly includes Marc Vanderleenen.0When you look at his paintings, sketches and models, you always see the beginning of the work and the delicate structure of choices that derived from it showing through; all the hesitations, strokes and layers. The work is figurative, but not a naïve return to the imitation of nature. Its intention is perhaps to better understand the experience of objects and bodies, but at the same time it is meant to short-circuit this understanding, or rather, to present the genesis of the understanding and to obscure it in mist, almost literally in Vanderleenens? case.0Marc Vanderleenen is a Belgian painter/sculptor (b. 1954).
People: Marc Vanderleenen (1954-)