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Guy van Bossche
guy van bosshce, untitled (reconstruction in our time), 2003
huile sur toile, 210 x 150cm
collection margrethe & andrea schmeer, allemagne
courtesy galerie anette de keyser, anvers
© photo : diane bertrand
Born in 1952 in Mortsel (Belgium), he lives in Antwerp (Begium).
Guy van Bossche restores the mystery of photography by painting. This artist takes up images made by himself and others, or found in old albums, newspapers, magazines or manuals, and translates them into works on canvas. With van Bossche, this process of appropriating the rhetoric of photography becomes an interpretation of the decisive photographic moment when an action is frozen at a given moment of its unfolding. Unlike photography, though, this artist’s photography is not mimetic or referential. It is interested only in the subject, which it ultimately reveals. Themes like violence, solitude, silence, struggle, the other, conflict and masks are explored to very moving effect in Guy van Bossche’s paintings.