Erik Pevernagie

Viewing a painting becomes a semiotic experience, and words, titles, sentences, and graffiti should be extensions and elucidations of a visual effect.

While particular events from the collective memory are translated into the canvas, the artistic approach consists of hiding the subject in a singular environment.

While the characters are integrated into their environment through geometric lines and compositional planes, figuration and abstractionism are forced to a compromise, visibly to generate a range of emotions and reflections.

[3] As the material on the canvas and the color process play an essential role, sand and metal filings are used to give a distinctive texture.

The artist obviously has a dialectical approach towards "presence" and "absence" and towards the "painted" and "non-painted" matter in art, which seems to create a kind of tension, visually and mentally.

Erik Pevernagie. Terra incognita (90 x 120), oil & metal on canvas
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