‘From Order to Chaos’ brings together five Belgian artists who make visible the movement from construction to freedom: from pure geometry to lyrical expression, from idea to sense.
The exhibition opens with Guy Vandenbranden, a postwar pioneer of Belgian geometric abstraction. His precise compositions and architectural sculptures present order as a state of mind: balance, clarity, and silence as a moral principle.
With Jan Van den Abbeel, that order begins to tremble. His optical paintings and suspended structures set color and rhythm in motion; the eye becomes a participant. What is strict in Vandenbranden becomes vibrant in him.
Mark Verstockt forms the intellectual bridge. In his early, lyrical canvases, gesture pulses vividly, but structure gradually emerges: he compels chaos into form, creating a language between thought and feeling.
Serge Vandercam, coming from the Cobra movement, represents the moment when matter explodes. In his informal period (1955–1962), he paints with sand, pigment, and chance. His gesture is physical-painting becomes breathing.
The circle closes with Pol Mara, in his abstract volcanoes and landscapes (1958–1962). Where Vandercam stirs the earth, Mara makes it sing: streams of color, fluid horizons, the seed of his later sensual pop art. Abstraction melts into image; chaos becomes desire.
‘From Order to Chaos’ is not a rupture, but a metamorphosis, the gradual liberation of form in the light of the senses.
Artists: Pol Mara, Jan van den Abbeel, Serge Vandercam, Mark Verstockt, Guy Vandenbranden
Vernissage:
from 14:00–18:00