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Pieter
Vermeersch
February 25 - March 31
"Pieter Vemeersch, Paint and Light Installation" 2009
Over the last few years, Pieter
Vermeersch has been building a critical reputation in Europe
for his artwork that embeds a deep interest in modernist monochromatic
painting inside a repres-entational project, concerned with
the organization and depiction of the effects of light in space.
Always working site-specificially, Vermeersch nonetheless is
influenced by and will use moveable supports such as painting
on canvas or photography. Most often, he will paint directly
on the walls, doors or windows of a given space, seeking to
bring the viewer or passer-by into a closer engagement with
their environment. The idealist rhetorics of painting is challenged
and distilled in the social and interpersonal dynamics of a
given situation.
At White Box, Vermeersch’s minimal presentation will begin
by removing all temporary walls and furniture, stripping the
space back to a progression of simple volumetric spaces or boxes.
This simple architectural condition is the starting point for
Vermeersch’s large scale wall paintings that slowly graduate
from pure gallery white through to deeply saturated color. This
graduated surface redefines the way the space is perceived,
but also reminds viewers of the grey scale familiar from photographic
and printing processes, as if they too have been merged into
a kind of representation.
Pieter Vermeersch was born in Kortrijk, Belgium in 1973. He
lives and works in Brussels. A laureate of the HISK, Antwerp
in 1999-2001, he has produced site-specific installations at
SMAK, Ghent; MuHKa, Antwerp; ProgrammArtCenter, Mexico City;
Projecte SD, Barcelona; BOZAR, Brussels; and many others. His
work was featured in “Expanded Painting” Prague
Biennial 2 2005 and the first Brussels Biennial 2008. This is
his first exhibition in the United States.
This exhibition has been supported by: BOZAR, Centre for Fine
Arts Brussels; Flemish Community (Arts and Culture); and Koraalberg
Gallery (www.koraalberg.com). Trevor Smith is Curator of Contemporary
Art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
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