This landscape painting features a striking visual composition, with a series of nine square panels that create a mosaic-like effect. The colors are predominantly muted tones of blue, green, and gray, evoking a sense of atmospheric depth and hazy, atmospheric conditions. The overall scene depicts a rural landscape with a winding path or road leading into the distance, framed by hints of vegetation and a moody, evocative sky. The artist's technique appears to be a blend of abstract expressionism and representational painting, creating a dreamlike, almost cinematic quality to the work. The piece likely reflects the artist's intention to capture the emotional and atmospheric qualities of the landscape, rather than a literal depiction. ...
Helmut Stallaerts works across various mediums, including painting, film, installation, photographs, and is known for oppressive and unsettling nature. He is particularly noted for his paintings that depict uncanny scenes and sometimes using unconventional materials as supports. Man is the focal point of Stallaerts' extensive and complex body of work, his subjects often present the portraits in an awkward, theatrical manner, as if participating in an undefined ritual. The atmosphere created is eerie and dark, with sterile and cold environments that lack recognizable or familiar details. Time in his work is not depicted linearly, and the space in his paintings often appears as an enigmatic void. Stallaert captures moments, highlights what has always been there, and invites viewers to contemplate the mysteries of existence through his enigmatic, yet open-ended works. ...
Parliament Gallery, founded in 2020, resembles a desire to rethink the function of the art gallery by formulating new proposals of audience interaction with the artwork and visibility to a new generation of french and international artists. Parliament wishes to build through a program that is dedicated to the circulation of ideas and collective reflection. The exhibition program will be interspersed with punctual “Interludes”, archive exhibitions and retrospectives, aiming to put into perspective the transdisciplinary character of creation. ...
