Alex De Bruycker

Alex De Bruycker initiates his practice by giving an extra dimension to the photographs he started by the end of 2017. The artist overpaints his works not using digital techniques but acrylic paint.

The veil obtained using the brush became the trigger for him to look for a new support in his technique.

De Bruycker’s early series Dominant Gelb insists on the artist’s excitement for minimalist architecture and composition.

By applying thin washes of acrylic paint onto fine measures of chiffon, stretched over a partly visible wooden frame, De Bruycker manages to control the varying extents of opacity and translucency, thus creating a sort of veil that both masks and affirms parts of the work. His canvas reveals themselves in between painting and sculpture.

The artist is committed to the tradition of Lucio Fontana’s Spatialism, whose exploration focuses on the spatial dimensions of painting. But De Bruycker’s particularity reposes on the use of muslin. This specific support, very light and slightly weaved gives the artist’s possibility for this veil and transparency. The artist can operate on the transparency both thanks to the material but also by using acrylic, which he decides through the addition of layers.

The game of transmission and communication elaborated by the work of De Bruycker by his technique with transparency and colour results in compositions that enclosed an energy of lightness and sensibility.

The artist lives and works in Maarkedal, Belgium.