Reniere & Depla

Their oeuvre consists of paintings (on wood panel and on canvas), drawings (on paper and carton) and sculpture in various materials (fabric, leather, wax and plaster).

[6] Professor and art philosopher Willem Elias described their work as exemplary of the neo-symbolic style, a term he created, whereby the photographic source material of the painter plays an important role.

Erik Rinckhout, journalist for the Belgian daily newspaper De Morgen compared their work to that of Léon Spilliaert, Xavier Mellery, Maurice Gilliams and Edgar Dégas.

In 2009 curator and art critic Sven Vanderstichelen selects their work for the exhibition “Fading” at the museum of Ixelles, Brussels, with a.o.

In 2011 Reniere&Depla organize ‘La Part des Anges’, a group exhibition featuring 19 contemporary visual artists in an interbellum mansion ‘Villa de Olmen’, in Wieze, Belgium.

In 2012 they again invite four artists to Villa De Olmen, for the exhibition ‘Mais l’Aile ne fait pas l’Oiseau’:[10] Johan Tahon, Tamara Van San, Rein Dufait and Sven Verhaeghe.

[11][12] Els Wuyts brings in ‘ La joie de se perdre’ a double exhibition in Wieze and Meigem, Belgium, featuring a.o.

Renato Nicolodi, Dirk Braeckman, Anne Wenzel, Jasper Rigolle, Peter De Koninck, Piki and Liesbet Verschueren, Vaast Colson, Yves Velter, and Griet Teck.

In 2014 they are requested by curator Wim Lambrecht to participate in ‘The Divided Body’, an exhibition in the Preachers Church of Louvain.