Paintings

Project Transformations

Developments and Early Forms

2021 - Belgium Smooths Out the Wrinkles

The work Belgium Smooths Out the Wrinkles was prompted by a remark from newly appointed Flemish minister Liesbeth Homans (N-VA), who, during her 2019 swearing-in ceremony, referred to the Belgian flag as “that Belgian rag.”

In the sculpture, a rag-like form appears with stripes in the Belgian tricolor, reminiscent of the pattern of a mop with its woven black, yellow, and red lines. The ironing board functions as a pleated cloth with a clear structure — much like the repeated state reforms that have reshaped and divided Belgium over time. The tricolor paint drips along the board into a tray below, where the colors merge into a dark, muddied mass.

On the ironing board lies a piece of fabric — perhaps a flag, perhaps a blank one. The iron smooths out the wrinkles and, with a casual gesture, draws new lines in the tricolor. The act suggests a quarrel being resolved: a compromise, a tentative new beginning.

Everyone connected to Belgium holds an opinion about wanting more, less, or simply a different Belgium. The tricolor can both unite and divide.

2016 _ 2017 - Variations in Difference

In art, a series is usually defined by a recognizable method and style, giving the works a certain unity. In this series, I deliberately sought the opposite: each work is approached individually, taking difference rather than similarity as its starting point.

The aim is to engage more consciously, quickly, and directly with the idea of change. Variations in Difference thus becomes an ongoing exercise in transformation — a dialogue between what has been and what is yet to come.

Unlike in the series The Canvas and I, here any technique or method can be used to create difference.

Dimensions: Focus on a Line - 70x50cm - Kubrick on Tetris - 120x80cm - Lightballs - 80x60cmm - No Hunter in Me - 100x80cmm - Number 51 - 50x70cm -Paint Fight - 60x100cmm - Pink Clouds over a River - 60x70cm - Poles on a Landscape - 90x70cm - Primitives on Primitives - 120x80cm - Stable Seat - 90x70cmm - Sunset Pleasures - 50x40cm

2025: For the paintings still in my possession, the stretcher bars have been removed. Eyelets have been added around the edges of the canvas.

2016 - Madonna in flux

In this 3D animation, I take as my starting point Jean Fouquet’s painting Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim (1452). The intensely blue cherubs and red seraphim, charged with heavy symbolism in Fouquet’s work, form the basis of the piece

I reconstruct the painting using simple digital forms, giving the religious image a new, virtual incarnation. The colors retain their symbolic meaning yet shift continuously, altering the emotional state of the whole as well as of each individual element. A constant interplay arises between color, emotion, and the viewer’s interpretation.

From this animation emerged a series of nine oil paintings on canvas, each measuring 50 × 30 cm.

In 2025, I removed the canvases from their stretcher bars and added eyelets around the edges, allowing them to be reconfigured later in a more flexible and modular way.

2014 - Slow Paintings

For this series, I started from two of my own animations: Skull and Rocking Horse and The Fruit Bowl. By projecting the images extremely slowly onto the canvas, I was able to paint fragments live — as if the brush followed the rhythm of the projection. At times, I continued working on still frames I had frozen on my laptop.

The painting thus became the result of a slowed-down dialogue between film and gesture, in which time itself becomes both visible and tangible in the paint.

2025: For the paintings still in my possession, the stretcher bars have been removed. Eyelets have been added around the edges of the canvas.

2012 _ 2013 - The Canvas and I

In this series, I return to the essence of painting. Without using a computer, photographs, or any other aids, I engage in a direct dialogue with the canvas. The painting once again becomes an encounter between paint, hand, and surface.

In 2025, I removed the canvases from their stretcher bars and added eyelets around the edges, allowing them to be used later in a more flexible and modular way.