In the artwork of Luc Vandervelde Lux, nothing seems to be lost. While in his earlier career the focus was on figurative, photo-realistic paintings, more recently, materials themselves have become the core of his artistic practice. This shift has come from seeking a foothold in times where everything changes quickly, and also from the desire for a reappraisal of materials. He has devised a way to weave a multitude of patterns and textures together to tell a new story.
No material escapes the eye of the artist: carpets, fabrics, plastic, felt, jute, rubber, knitwear, metal or wooden frames, remnants of roofing, tape or moving blankets are processed in his visual universe. It is a multi-layered world where found objects are freely brought together to relate to each other in a new harmony. While some materials are bought or collected, others are found on the street or on the way to the studio. Everything can be important and what someone else might throw away, finds a place in Luc’s works. Everything, every interaction, is a potential material to work with.
What ultimately ends up in a work, he decides intuitively and on a purely visual basis. He unravels the structures of the discarded materials by dismantling them and in doing and making, in building or connecting the different layers, he manifests himself consciously: recycled remnants are converted into aesthetic compositions.
The experimental process remains visible: each part shows a fragment of a memento, an anonymous presence of stories or histories. Own memories are intertwined with unknown lives, personal experiences with universal dimensions.They look like archaeological layers that are sometimes palpable but inaccessible, or just open and exposed. Without making moral propositions, every transformed work becomes an object of reflection that represents certain values, and invites us to position ourselves in relation to these values.
Another beauty unfolds.
Everything changes. Nothing perishes. (Ovid)
Text: Els Wuyts, December 2019
Education
Interior Architect (3 year study), ‘Hoger Artistiek Onderwijs’ at the Imelda Institute, 1000 Brussels
Photography (evening classes, 2 year study), Art academy ‘Rhok’, 1000 Brussels
Intersection, paintings and photography by Ron Rizi, summer 2004, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (USA)
Scholarships and selections
Scholarship for visual artists (trajectsubsidie VGC), Flemish Government (BE), 2011/12
Scholarship for visual artists , Flemish Government (BE), 2006, 2003, 2001
From 10.10.2024 till 09.02.2025, Hosting Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels (B)
From 16.03.2025 till 13.04.2025, Tale Art Gallery, Vlierzele (B)
In Mar 2025 solo show @huisburg (B), project artist in residence in Chateau at Suronde (FR)
From 1 May till 30 September 2024, Bienale Natura Inspiratus 2024 @Botanical garden Meise, Belgium
From 17 May till 30 June 2024, groupshow @Perron, Ieper, Belgium
From 15 October till 12 November 2023, ‘Duologue’ with Christian Noirfalise @Gallery Sofie Van den Bussche, Brussels.
From 26 May 2023 till 4 June 2023 groupshow ‘Back in Business‘ with Bernard Gilber, Jean-Luc Moerman, Olivier van Rossum, Tim tresson and lucvanderveldelux @ rue de courtrai 70, 1080 Molenbeek
Great Small Works (part 2), groupshow at gallery Stephane Simoens, 24/12/2022 – 28/02/2023, Knokke
“TEN times TWO” at Gallery Sofie Van den Bussche, 16/06/2022 – 6/072022, Brussels.
‘ABSTRACTION IN ACTION‘, group show at Alfa Gallery, April 1 – May 31, 2022, Miami (US)
Art Talk + Walk: Artwork in Natural Environement. Sunday 24 October 2022 @ Foundation OBRAS (Portugal)
Group Exhibition Art@work , 9 October 2022 till 16 October 2022, Ghent
Great Small Works, groupshow at gallery Stephane Simoens, 22 February – 31 March 2020
4 October – 13 October, Much Further back … and Faster @ rue de courtrai 70, 1080 Bxl with Son Tim, Peter Van Ammel, Fred Michiels and lucvanderveldelux
Art Festival Watou, from 29 June 2019 till 2 September 2019
2 March – 3 April 2019, On the Stretcher, with Jesper Slov MADSEN, James William MURRAY, Maximillian SCHUBERT and luc vandervelde lux at gallery Stephane Simoens
Groupshow @the villa, project with curator Sven Vanderstichelen. Opening 25/10/2018 with Steven Peters Caraballo, Francis Denys, Hans Everaert, Fik van Gestel, Wannes Lecompte, Pieter Jan Martyn, Christian Noirfalise, Stefan Peters, David Russon, lucvanderveldelux, Bart Vandevijvere, Peter Weidenbaum
1 February – 6 March 2018, PARK, Tilburg (NL), groupshow
19 October 2017 – 31 January 2018, Visionary History, curated by Filip Luyckx with Davide Bertocchi, Louis De Cordier, Bram Demunter , Joachim Devillé, Lise Duclaux, Elise Eeraerts, Willem Oorebeek, G. Küng, Helmut Stallaerts, Conrad Willems, Zhang Yunyao and luc vandervelde lux.
25 February – 28 March 2017, For Everything that Happens and Nowhere Else, Solo exhibition at Stephane Simoens gallery (B)
25 – 29 May 2016, Amsterdam Art Fair presented by gallery Stephane Simoens (NL)
12 March – 9 April 2016, A slow attention, part 2, Tweebronnen Rijschoolstraat 4, 3000 Leuven in collaboration with Stad Leuven en Museum M
4 April – 11 May 2015, A slow attention, part 1 » Solo exhibition gallery Stephane Simoens, Knokke
April 2015, Presented by gallery Stephane Simoens ART Brussels
20 December 2014 – 31 Januari 2015 Group exhibition Dark Matter at gallery Stephane Simoens, Knokke (B)
11 – 21 December 2014, Arture / Casa Argentaurum, Gent curated by Sven Vanderstichelen
18 – 21 Septembre 2014, SUMMA Art Fair presented by Galery Sobering, Paris
15 February – 12 March 2014, I dig so deep that I ended up in china, Xiamen (CN)Solo exhibition, CEAC.
5 April – 21 May 2013, Selected Goup exhibition,. “Caesuur – de schilder”, Middelburg (NL).
4 May – 2 June 2013, Selected for a solo exhibition at the EPA en plein air, Torino (It).
1 – 31 October 2010, Solo exhibition at gallerie s.h. de buck, Gent (BE).
5 – 30 June 2010, Solo exhibition: “the hymnes of no resistance: fall in love and fall apart things will end before they start” Church of Vicente, Evora (PT), in collaboration with Ludger van der Eerden
16 August – 16 September 2008, “Merci, Marie Petronelle” China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing (CN)
