20/6/2013
Walter Swennen
Domobaal, London
Continuer. This exhibition encompasses the last sixteen years of his painting, a period during which the artist expanded his repertoire of formal and expressive solutions in a quite remarkable fashion.
curated by Miguel Wandschneider
The Board of Directors of Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos – Culturgest invites you
to the opening of the exhibition Walter Swennen: Continuer which will take place on
21 June at 10 pm, in Gallery 1 of the Caixa Geral de Depósitos building.
Greatly admired in his own country, particularly by other artists, Walter Swennen
(*1946 Brussels) is a painter who has yet to be picked up by the radars of the
international art world. Since the early 1980s, when he called time on his activity
as a poet in order to take up painting as his preferred means of expression, Walter
Swennen has been constructing a unique oeuvre that immediately surprises us through
his constant rejection of a unifying style. This exhibition encompasses the last
sixteen years of his painting, a period during which the artist expanded his
repertoire of formal and expressive solutions in a quite remarkable fashion. This
has only been made possible by his ever keener awareness of the specific problems of
painting, his ever greater mastery of the different means of expression and his
deep-rooted sense of individual and creative freedom. In 1988, he wrote: "Truth lies
in the words. It has once been said: 'as stupid as a painter'. Stupidity is the name
of the real with which the thinking is in dispute. Painting has to do with the real.
So I keep myself busy with stupidities.”
This exhibition is organised in partnership with the WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre,
in Brussels, where it will be presented in October of this year, 05.10.13 –
05.01.14.
Opening 21 June at 10 pm
Guided tour by João Queiroz
Saturday, 6 July, 5 pm
Guided tour by Bruno Pacheco
Saturday, 7 September, 5 pm
Domobaal
3 John Street - London
opening hours:
Thursday to Saturday 12 to 6pm during exhibitions
and at other times by appointment