Bert De Beul

Bert De Beul sensitively captures simple, everyday subjects. Here, the tops of a few trees and a street lamp are visible in the distance, in the lower part of the canvas. Their silhouettes stand side by side, in an atmosphere that is paradoxically both weighty and delicate. The palette of greys is subtle. Though committed to a quasi-photographic realism (or rather, to the notion of ‘photographic blur’), the artist nevertheless distances himself from it by immersing his views in an eminently pictorial sfumato. Most of his works remain ‘Untitled’, emphasising this distance or uncertainty in relation to the real referent. His motifs seem to want to retreat into the realm of the ‘never fully graspable’. Before devoting himself entirely to painting, Bert De Beul studied art history and was for a time curator of the MuHKA collection (Antwerp).

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