
About the artist
b. 1973 in Kortrijk, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium and Torino, Italy
Originating from photographic sources, Pieter Vermeersch’s work deploys painting as an instrument to create images that perpetually oscillate between abstraction and representation. In scanning the extremities of the medium and its relationship to architecture he looks for the degree zero of an image by exploring how time, space and matter constitute the three main elements. Throughout his work, these elements are mixed with subtle variations as in his colour-graded wall paintings and canvases. Vermeersch’s color gradients are the result of a meticulous and almost mathematical process by which the artist becomes a kind of human printer – blending paint into a smooth and seamless surface he conceals any trace of the labor involved in the making of the painting. Behind their seemingly straightforward appearance, these paintings are the complex condensation of an ancient technique along with the painterly attempt to render the interpretation of a photographic source. Through this complex process, Pieter Vermeersch’s paintings liberate themselves from objective referents to allow the viewer to fully experience the effect created by the all-over.
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Pieter Vermeersch
Be-Part
Year: 2011
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm cm
Pages: 36
Language: English, Dutch
Material: Softcover


Pieter Vermeersch
Variations
Pieter Vermeersch (Belgium, 1973) is well-known for his gradual wall paintings that create powerful visual experiences. Vermeersch combines painting with architecture and works on a variety of surfaces such as canvas, marble and photographs. Beyond the traditional borders of the canvas, his investigations result in large-scale spatial interventions that manipulate the space. Time, colour and space are the building blocks of his oeuvre: these concepts lie at the foundation of his gradual murals and architectural interventions.
Variations presents a complete survey of Vermeersch’s work, from the beginning of his career until his recent solo exhibition at M – Museum Leuven (March 15–August 11, 2019), and includes a broad selection of painted works (canvases, stones, photographs, walls), installations and sketches. Each signature of the book is dedicated to a particular work or aspect of Vermeersch’s oeuvre. There will be seven different cover versions of the book, each printed in a different colour variation defined by the artist. Beautifully designed by the Dutch design studio Mevis & van Deursen, edited by Moritz Küng and with texts by François Piron, Kersten Geers and Dieter Roelstraete.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Ludion
Dimensions: 27,5 x 23,3 cm
Pages: 272
Language: English
Material: Paperback


Pieter Vermeersch
Variations (special edition)
This special edition of Pieter Vermeersh’s book Variations is an enlarged version of the standard edition on which the artist applied touches of paint with his fingertip on each of the blue laminated covers.
Variations provides a complete overview of Vermeersch’s oeuvre and contains a wide selection of his work on canvas, marble, photographs, installations and sketches.
Designed by Mevis & van Deursen, Variations was compiled by Moritz Küng and contains texts by François Piron, Kersten Geers and Dieter Roelstraete.
Special edition of the book “Pieter Vermeersch — Variations”
Limited edition of 100, numbered and signed by the artist.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Ludion
Dimensions: 33 x 23,6 cm
Pages:
Language: English
Material: Paperback