Raoul De Keyser Paintings 1980-1999

by Keyser, Raoul De; Mulders, Wim Van; Jooris, Roland; Cassiman, Bart; Vos, Dirk De; Loock, Ulrich; Smith, Roberta

• ISBN13: 9789055442867
• ISBN10: 9055442860
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Raoul De Keyser's mainly abstract art is remarkable for its dimensional realism--that is, its connection of the subjective and objective dimensions of experience. De Keyser personalizes abstraction, he gives it a human face; many of his pictures include motifs drawn from his immediate surroundings or his own personal experience. Instead of searching for an overarching formal principle--as did the pioneers of abstraction from Kandinsky's time through the 1960s--De Keyser attunes his art to the significance of improvisation and chance in all life, and contemporary life in particular. Thus we find in the art of Raoul De Keyser much of the contingency, inconsistency, textual precariousness, modal variety, particularity, unpredictability, disorder and flux that we find in our daily lives. This catalogue, published on the occasion of a touring exhibition of De Keyser's work, documents in sumptuous reproductions the artist's oeuvre over the past twenty years.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(1)
What Remains of Depth is Enveloped in Colour. Raoul De Keyser's Painting 1964-2000	8	(66)
Steven Jacobs
ANTHOLOGY
Wim Van Mulders	74	(4)
Roland Jooris	78	(6)
Bart Cassiman	84	(4)
Dirk De Vos	88	(7)
Ulrich Loock	95	(3)
Roberta Smith	98	(3)
Hans Rudolf Reust	101	(4)
Gregory Salzman	105	(12)
CATALOGUE 1980-1999	117	(98)
VERTALING/TRADUCTION
Wat nog aan diepte rest, wordt met kleur verpakt. De schilderkunst van Raoul De Keyser 1964-2000	179	(18)
Ce qui subsiste de profondeur est emballe de couleur. La peinture de Raoul De Keyser 1964-2000	197	(18)
EXHIBITIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY	215	(8)
Photographic Credits	223