The pedestal

Bendt Eyckermans

The pedestal, 2021187 x 149 x 2.5cmSign in to view price
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oil and acrylic inks on linenCarlos/Ishikawa
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The painting features a central figure standing in a dimly lit interior space. The colors are predominantly deep purples, reds, and blacks, creating a moody and atmospheric ambiance. The figure is portrayed in a contemplative pose, with one hand raised in a gesture of contemplation or greeting. The overall composition is balanced and symmetrical, with the figure positioned against a backdrop of ornamental architectural elements and a distant landscape visible through a window. The style appears to be a realist or representational approach, with attention to detail and textures. The historical context or the artist's intention behind this work may suggest a deeper narrative or symbolic meaning within the image. ...

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Bendt Eyckermans
Artist
Bendt Eyckermans
B.1994, Belgian

Coming from five generations of sculptors based and working in Antwerp, Bendt Eyckermans creates figurative paintings that are at once personal and historically critical. Like Hitchock film scenes, his works are characterised by contradictions and tensions, where tenderness meets aggression, hyperrealist imagery meets cartoonish fragments. With all his characters being his real-life friends, Eyckermans treats the process of painting as his way of processing his life and occurrences he finds himself in. At the same time, his practice makes a critical reference to a complex European colonialiasm entrenched in the history of art. The mysterious atmosphere of his works is accentuated by the use of dark colours, contrasts and unexpected perspectives. Eyckermans’s practice creates an uncanny juxtaposition between mundane, meticulously painted elements, such as peebles, driveways, cards, and his eerie subjects who appear to exist in a determined youth, while also being trapped in a self-aware Western existence. ...

Bendt Eyckermans: Artworks
A touch
Bendt EyckermansA touch, 2020
60 x 50 x 2.5cm
De assemblage
Bendt EyckermansDe assemblage, 2021
120 x 100 x 2.5cm
De kariatide
Bendt EyckermansDe kariatide, 2021
44 x 32 x 2.5cm
De transitie
Bendt EyckermansDe transitie, 2020
189 x 159 x 2.5cm
Het masker
Bendt EyckermansHet masker, 2020
186 x 154 x 2.5cm
Ochtendster
Bendt EyckermansOchtendster, 2019
183 x 146 x 2.5cm
Red hands
Bendt EyckermansRed hands, 2020
32 x 21cm
The passage
Bendt EyckermansThe passage, 2020
196 x 177 x 2.5cm
The pedestal
Bendt EyckermansThe pedestal, 2021
187 x 149 x 2.5cm
Through scaffolds and constructs
The Spoils
Bendt EyckermansThe Spoils, 2023
74 x 66 x 2.5cm
The tower
Bendt EyckermansThe tower, 2023
189.5 x 158 x 2.5cm
The foundation
Bendt EyckermansThe foundation, 2024
160 x 141 x 2.5cm
Bound
Bendt EyckermansBound, 2024
49.3 x 41.3 x 2.5cm
The apprentice
Bendt EyckermansThe apprentice, 2024
160 x 141 x 2.5cm
The performance
Bendt EyckermansThe performance, 2024
177 x 163 x 2.5cm
Focus pull
Bendt EyckermansFocus pull, 2024
49.3 x 41.3 x 3cm
The ruling
Bendt EyckermansThe ruling, 2025
194 x 159 x 2.5cm
Acknowledgement
Bendt EyckermansAcknowledgement, 2025
64 x 52 x 2.5cm
Carlos/Ishikawa
Gallery
Carlos/Ishikawa
London

Founded in 2011, Carlos/Ishikawa’s program is dedicated to considered and ambitious exhibitions that offer diverse artists’ perspectives on structural, socio-cultural, and political questions. The program focuses on international artists with often wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary and experimental practices. There is an interest within the program of challenging the aesthetic conventions of conceptual art, and a focus on art that is able to operate on an affective, emotional level as well as a rigorous intellectual one. The gallery has offered many artists their first solo show, many of whom have gone on to receive recognition internationally. ...

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