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Denys Christophe
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Christophe Denys

What I paint, I want to paint. I have no desire to manifest or align myself with or against, with or for certain expressions of art. My work is usually described as abstract. For me, it is primarily about paint skin and the layering of paints over one another. I paint what cannot be touched. Eventually my images grow abstract by elaborating on them, by painting. You are working on a painting, whether it is abstract or figurative is not so important to me. I don’t understand figuration and abstraction in art as a dichotomy. There is a certain unity in my work, a certain movement that reinforces one work toward another.

My painting works have a fixed surface, above and along which the paint runs, comes to a stop and then is absorbed again into the next canvas. This is also why I usually work on several paintings. One painting follows another. There is no chronological order. My oeuvre is like a snowball effect. One canvas sparks the next. “A never ending story. I dare to say that I am a contemporary, radical painter. This manifests itself in the constant change and complexity of forms and non-forms. My work is never finished. It is shown in its incompleteness. Hence the sense of infinity in my paintings.

Website

c.denys@telenet.be

(°1974) Courtrai, lives and works in Moere (BE)

Studies

1998 Master of Fine Arts, liberal arts option painting, Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst, campus Sint-Lucas, Ghent

Residence

2011 Master class in screen printing, Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee

1997

‘Kunst te Kortrijk’ (laureaat schilderkunst), foyer stadsschouwburg, Kortrijk

1998

‘Gaverprijs 1998’, CC. De Schakel, Waregem (*)

‘Belofte in de Jonge Kunst’, Centrum voor Jonge Kunst, Gent

1999

‘30×98’, Kunsthal Sint-Pietersabdij, Gent

‘Senergie’, Athena Art Gallery, Kortrijk

2000

‘Gaverprijs 2000’, CC De Schakel, Waregem (*)

‘Young Artist (selected by Jan Hoet)’, Witte zaal, Gent (*)

‘Kunst over grenzen’, Centrum voor Jonge Kunst, Gent

‘Kunst over grenzen’, Athena Art Gallery, Kortrijk

2001

‘Young Artists (selected by Lex Ter Braak)’, Witte zaal, Gent (*)

‘Stimulans 2001’, (eervolle vermelding), Groeninghekapel, Kortrijk (*)

‘Kunst over Grenzen’, Gemeentehuis, Terneuzen (Nl.)

‘Leraars stellen tentoon’, K.A.S.K., Kortrijk

Kulak, Kortrijk ism. Athena Art Gallery (solo)

2002

‘Gaverprijs 2002’ (derde prijs), CC. De Schakel, Waregem (*)

‘Provinciale Prijs voor Beeldende Kunst’, Caermersklooster, Gent (*)

‘Collectief, 25 jaar galerie’, Athena Art Gallery, Kortrijk

‘Schilderkunst’, Benedengallerij stadsschouwburg, Kortrijk

‘Phase I’, Grusenmeyer art, Deurle

‘Semper Aliquid Haerat’, Athena Art Gallery, Kortrijk (solo)

Grusenmeyer Art, Deurle (*) (solo)

2003

‘Openbaring’, Grusenmeyer Art, Deurle ism Florent Bex en Dieter Roelstraete(*)

‘Art Brussels’ met Grusenmeyer Art (*)

‘Verloop’, Art Concern, Kortrijk (solo)

R 53, Oostende (duo)

2004

Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle (solo)

CC Hasselt, Hasselt (solo)

2005

‘Stippels en pixels’, Zebrastraat, Gent, curator Stef Van Bellingen (*)

‘FW: Painting’, Montanus 5, Diksmuide, Curator Johan Van Geluwe

‘In Between’, Antwerpen (*) (solo)

R 53, Oostende (duo)

Galerie Krijger+ Katwijk, Amsterdam (Nl) (duo)

2006

‘Voorbij het zwart’, Be-Part (platform voor Hedendaagse Kunst), Waregem, curator Veerle Van Durme (*)

‘Kunstproject “WWW”, Nieuwpoort (*)

‘GORGE(L), Beklemming en verademing in/via kunst (1840-2006)’, Koninklijk Museum Voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, curator Sofie Van Loo (*)

2007

R 53, Oostende (duo)

‘Radikalen harten expo 1’, Kortrijk, curator Paul Vandenbroeck

‘FW: Painting: Les invité(e)s’, de cacaofabriek, Helmond (Nl) (*)

2008

‘Bezet’, kunstenfabriek Buda, Kortrijk

2009

‘Sint-Pieters geTekend’, Brugge, curator Yves Beaumont (*)

Galerij Jan Colle vzw, Gent (duo)

‘Close Encounters’, CC Gildhof, Tielt (*) (duo)

2010

‘The battlefield where the moon says I love you’, Paardestallen, Kortrijk (*)

2011

‘Overwinteren’, Montanus 5, Diksmuide

Galerie Lucanu, Diest (solo)

Zaal 29, Waregem (duo)

2012

Deltalight, Wevelgem (solo)

‘Genthof 2012’, 44 gallery en Pinsart, Brugge

‘Art Architecture, Landscape’, Galerie Lieve Lambrecht, Merendree

2013

‘Print Art Fair’, Frans Masereelcentrum, Kasterlee

‘De naamloze vorm’, Raveelmuseum, Machelen aan de Leie, curator P. Vandenbroeck

‘Kortrijk Vlaandert, van provincie naar provincie’, Kortrijk, curator H. Van Canneyt (*)

‘At Random’, CC de steiger en schippershof, Menen (*)

2014

‘Ilya Pregogine in kleur’, Ham 145, Gent (*)

Galerie Lieve Lambrecht, Merendree

2016

‘Er was eens niets’, Sint-Amandskerk, Roeselare

‘ATC, artist trading cards’, galerie Martin Van Blerk, Antwerpen, curatoren Barry Camps en Charlotte Lybeer

‘Hotel Vlaanderen’, Diksmuide, curator P. Defurne

‘Fair & square’, Bubox, Kortrijk (*)

2017

‘A glimpse of the consealed’, MAS, Antwerpen, curator P. Vandebroeck (*)

‘ Moment’, oude limonadefabriek, Diksmuide, curator P. Defurne (*)2023

2018

‘Stroom/lijn’, Diksmuide, curator P. Defurne (*)

‘Stil.Te’, Sint- jozefskerk, Roeselare (*)

‘Fair & square II’, CC de ververij, Ronse

‘Motility’, Kasteelstraat 1, Watou

‘La liberté comme emblème d’ échec’, ancienne gare de Perwez, Perwez, curatoren F. Michiels en C. Coomans (*)

2019

‘Abstracte Onschatbare Geschilderde Gedachten’, Sint-Martinuspastorie, Westmalle, curator F. Michiels (*)

‘Onverbloemd’, oude bloemmolens, Diksmuide, curator P. Defurne. (*)

‘WAWA-OIL’, de tank, Brugge

‘Works of art’, Kasteelstraat 1, Watou

2020

‘@muramur expo’, Gent (solo)

2021

‘Ademrood’, huisvandeMens, Brussel

Cecilia Jaime Gallery, Gent

‘Onverbloemd#2’, Diksmuide (*)

‘Ademrood’, Salon Radical, Kortrijk, curatoren Pé Vermeersch en Paul Vandenbroeck

2022

‘There’s a calm’, CAS Oostende

‘Eden-tentoonstelling’, diverse locaties Roeselare(*)

‘Onbelast’, oud financiengebouw, Diksmuide

‘Rook’, Wervik(*)

2023

‘In Order’, Villa Vandewalle, Roeselare

‘Een groep’, galerie De Ziener, Asse

‘Vindlust’, Polderpand, Diksmuide

‘Mimesis03’, Galerie 4n20, Kortrijk

‘Border Colli’, galerie Negenpuntnegen, Roeselare

2024

‘Te huur/ te koop’, galerie AHWNN, Oostende

‘Centuur’, diverse locaties, Meulebeke

‘Minimizers’, Ruimte 34, Antwerpen

(*) catalogus of publicatie