Gallery Baton will hold the new exhibition 'Belgium Contemporary Now' to highlight current state of Belgium art which has led the Western art market. In the history of Belgium art, many master artists, such as Pieter Bruegel, who depicted ordinary life in 16th century with realism style and a delicate touch, and Peter Paul Rubens, who is master of Baroque art, led the Renaissance of Belgium art after 15th century, and it has created unique style.
As photographing artificial structure, road and round the town, which are made by men but isolate them, and describing those photographs on canvas, Koen causes consecutive reaction of image's dissolution and emphasis and infuses abstractness at the same time. familiar spaces and objects are recreated by Koen's reinterpretation with emphasizing fundamental line and side, and standing out spatiality and shade.
Images compacting a canvas on purpose in Cindy's work give a feeling of surprise and embarrassment when seeing unfamiliar object closely through a magnifying. Rather than remaining in a category of traditional photorealism, she uses her works to deliver messages about political, and social issues, or opinions for benefits and limitation as a woman artist.
A person and object in Guy's work are created and deformed by his personal experience, life and news or incidents around him, thus, in spite of figurative painting, it is hard to a meaning of it. Using colours in low chroma repeatedly, layered images are described imperfectly by intent, and those images harmonize with background which perspective and spatiality removed and his works are similar with a style of Paul Cezanne.
Patrick excludes a particular rule, and arranges images on magazine or photograph randomly, based on flashed ideas at that moment. As he repeats this process until it connects to a format he wants, each art gets uniqueness and each image is subordinated to different canvas from medium where it was included at first. Intentionally chosen and arranged images serve as looking like a still or real case.
Stef is the only abstract painter among artists of the exhibition. Recently, he pursues pure abstract painting. As he makes viewer to focus on initial value each colour has had and interaction with canvas, after taking an image to a basic form with outline and colour only, he asks to depart from a prototype for boundary and category of traditional painting we have.