Andy Hope 1930

 © Andy Hope & Hauser & Wirth, Medley 6, Acrylic on canvasboard, 60 x 60 cm / 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in (2011)

Hope is inspired by superheroes from the Golden and Siver Age of Comics. Futuristic objects as spaceships, laser beams and fantastic uniforms are part of his oeuvre. Flash Gordon, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman are part of his world. 

© Andy Hope & Hauser & Wirth, Medley 14, Acrylic on canvasboard60 x 60 cm / 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in (2011)

© Andy Hope & Hauser & Wirth, Medley 11, Acrylic on Canvasboard, 60 x 60 cm / 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in (2011)

Leen Voet starts her lecture with the words: 

I will show 142 images. I love completeness. In that sense I am a freak. 

© Leen Voet, Jardin Gregoire Drawing, pencil on paper, H 21 x W 29,7 cm (2006)

Sometimes she was working on a A4-drawing for 6 hours. To draw was a method to visualize her future paintings and to think intensively. She filled every piece of the compositions with a unique hatching. 

© Leen Voet, drawings by Leen Voet, published by Grotto & Grafische Cel, designed by Michael Bussaer & Inge Ketelers, supported by research Fund Sint-Lucas Visual Arts Ghent, 775 pages, 21 x 29,7 cm, b/w offset on Munken Lynx (2012)

Sometimes she hated the work of Felix, the empty gaze in his self-portraits. She underestimated the impact of exclusively drawing his work for two years. She lived almost the life of someone else via his work. After all she made 1 drawing of each of the 774 works of Felix De Boeck the museum sent her. The works were made respecting the same proportions as the works of De Boeck. In the first drawings the graphite was darker. Sometimes a drawing was made very quickly, sometimes painfully slowly.  

© Leen Voet, FELIX, Series of 774 drawings, pencil on A4 paper (2009-2010)

© Leen Voet, series of 11 drawings after logos of art colleges, color pencil on A4 paper (2012)

© Leen Voet, SINT-RITA, Jesus Arbeider, Sint-Rita, Sint-Alena, Sint-Bartholomeus, Sint-Pius X, series of 5 paintings on wooden tripods, oil on unstretched canvas, H 216 x W 168 cm (2012-2013)

Marcel Van Eeden talks about the wonderful coincidence that his Be-Part-exhibition in Waregem travels to Gladbeck in Germany, probably one of the rare exhibition spaces with the same semicircular concrete wall as in Be-Part.

© Be-Part Waregem, N 50 51 40.9, E 3 24 1.3

Quotes from the lecture of Marcel Van Eeden:

"Everything is connected to one and the same idea."

"Drawing is making a paper dirty."

"I'd like to make works referring to the time before my birth for the rest of my life. It is as preparing the time I won't be here anymore, the senseless future. It is a senseless complaint, but I am happy with it, that's what it is all about."

Marcel van Eeden

© Marcel van Eeden, (1996) zonder titel, negropotlood op papier, 19 x 28 cm (2006)

© Marcel van Eeden, Sammlung Boryna, Hans Komorzynski, Crunchy coconut, Öl, 50 x 72 cm, 2009

© Marcel van Eeden

Jorinde Voigt

© Jorinde Voigt, WV 2013-117 C.G. Jung „Die Auflösung des Bewusstseins“ C.G. Jung/ Wilhelm Das Geheimnis der Goldenen Blüte Matrix I, 140 x 246 cm, Tinte, Bleistift, Ölkreide, Pastell, Blattgold, auf Papier (2013)

© Jorinde Voight, Courtesy David Nolan Galery, Blickwinkel - Study 14, ink and graphite on paper, 58 x 78 cm (2008)

© Jorinde Voight, Courtesy David Nolan Galery, Nexus, Ink, oil crayon, pencil on paper, 258 x 208 cm (2010)

Julie Mehretu (at the Biennale in Venice)

© Julie Mehretu & Marian Goodman Gallery, Co-evolution of the futurhyth machine (after kodwo eshun), graphite, ink and acrylic on canvas, 9 X 10 FT. (2.74 X 3.05m) (2013)

 © Julie Mehretu & Marian Goodman Gallery, Insile, ink and acrylic on linen, 9 x 12 FT. (2.74 x 3.66 m) (2013)

© Julie Mehretu & Marian Goodman Gallery, Ra 2510, graphite, ink and acrylic on canvas, 8 x 12 ft. (2.44 x 3.66 m) (2013)