Ensemble: Window on Infinity - Room 10
Photo: Christine Clinckx / M HKA
Cathedrals of Light
After monochromy and achromy, Jef Verheyen explores panchromy, embracing not just many colours but all the colours of the rainbow and sun path. He uses these to paint refractions, tondos and cathedrals of light as homages to light. In 1974 Verheyen moves to Provence. He writes several times about its exceptional ‘shimmering light’, a light that inspires him to paint an homage to impressionist painter Claude Monet. Verheyen doesn’t base this work on observation, however, but rather on the imagination of light as an idea or concept. Light takes shape here in the enchanting interplay of crystal-clear colours. Verheyen paints them he says ‘flat on a deep painting’. Adimensional, infinite and intangible. Like a space. Or like a breath.
Works
>James Ensor , De verzoeking van de heilige Antonius, 1927.Painting, 58.6 x 68.6 cm.
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>Paul De Vree, Jef Verheyen, Survey by the artist, form with colour test completed by Paul De Vree, 1962.Text, ink on paper, 1 page.
>Jef Verheyen, Galerie Aujourd'hui, Invitation to the exhibition 'Zonnebogen' in Galerie Aujourd’hui, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1964.Invitation Card, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, • 0098 • L'oubli de la mort (Gondola rosa), 1965.Painting, matt lacquer on fibreboard, 120 x 240 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, Sammlung Lenz, • 0097 • Zonnebogen (1/4), 1965.Painting, matt lacquer on canvas, 65 x 65 cm, 81 x 81 cm with frame.
>Galerie Carrefour, Sammlung Lenz, Galerie Bernard, Galerie Schoeller, Jef Verheyen, • 0810 • Soleil II, 1966-1967.Painting, matt lacquer on canvas, 130 x 130 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, Lothar Wolleh , Jef Verheyen holding the tondo for Metaponte in his studio on Hoogstraat, Antwerp, 1966.Photography, diapositive (medium).
>Jef Verheyen, 676 • Stelatex (ed. 25), 1966.Multiple, ink and mixed media on cardboard, 49,5 x 34,5 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, Jef Verheyen, 1966.Leaflet, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Axel Vervoordt, Jos Macken, • 0463 • Metaponte, 1966.Painting, matt lacquer on fibreboard, mounted in a wooden square box, 95 x 95 cm, Ø 97 cm .
>Filip Tas, Jef Verheyen, Jef Verheyen posing before his triptych 'Lichtkathedralen', 1967.Photography, photograph.
>Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana, • 813 • Les arbres roses (Pour mon ami Fontana), 1967.Painting, matt lacquer on fibreboard, mounted in a wooden square box, 72 x 72 cm.
>Dani Franque, Jef Verheyen, Rotraut Klein, Galerie Carrefour, Rochus Kowallek, Günther Uecker, Maria Gilissen Broodthaers, Dani Franque, Jef Verheyen, Rotraut Klein, Marcel Stal, Rochus Kowallek and Günther Uecker (left to right) at the opening of 'Lichtkathedralen' in Galerie Carrefour, Brussels, 1967.Photography, photograph.
>Jef Verheyen, 9e biennale de São Paulo: participation belge, 1967.Book, ink on paper.
>Galerie Carrefour, Jef Verheyen, Lichtkathedralen, 1967.Poster, ink on paper, 70,1 x 45,4 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, Galerie Carrefour, • 0210 • Lichtkathedralen, 1967.Painting, matt lacquer and oil-painted plywood on hardboard, panels joined by hinges, 207 x 161.5 cm (triptych).
>Jef Verheyen, Galerie Ursula Lichter, Sammlung Lenz, • 0101 • Brugge, 1967.Painting, synthetic resin on canvas, 130 x 130 cm, 150 x 150 cm with frame.
>Jef Verheyen, Galerie Ursula Lichter, Invitation to the exhibition 'Panchromatische Objekte' in Galerie Ursula Lichter, Frankfurt am Main, 1968.Invitation Card, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, • 0727 • Vogel III, 1969.Drawing, felt tip pen on paper, 29,7 x 42 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, • 0725 • Vogel, 1969.Drawing, felt tip pen on paper, 29,7 x 42 cm.
>Belgischen Haus, Jef Verheyen, Jef Verheyen im Belgischen Haus: Farbsinn, 1969.Book, ink on paper, 22 x 22 cm.
>Gerald Dauphin, Jef Verheyen, Jef Verheyen in front of his series 'Hommage à Mondriaan – Monet' in his atelier on Hoogstraat, Antwerp, 1970.Photography, photograph.
>Galerie Bernard, Jef Verheyen, Kunstmuseum Bern, Stiftung Anne-Marie & Victor Loeb, • 0794 • Espace transposée (Flandre), 1970.Painting, matt lacquer on canvas, 91,5 x 91,5 cm.
>Galerie Iris Clert, Jef Verheyen, Letter from Iris Clert to Jef Verheyen (26 September 1970), 1970.Letter, ink on paper, 26,9 x 20,9 cm / 2 sides.
>Dani Franque, Jef Verheyen, Jean-Michel Folon, Dani Franque, Jef Verheyen and Jean-Michel Folon? at La Biennale di Venezia (Belgian Pavilion), 1970.Photography, photograph.
>Galerie Iris Clert, Jef Verheyen, Jef Verheyen and Iris Clert at the opening of 'Panchromies', 1970.Photography, photograph.
>Paul Delmotte, Jef Verheyen, Biennale di Venezia 1970, 1970.Book, ink on paper, 23,9 x 21 cm.
>Galerie Iris Clert, Jef Verheyen, Jef Verheyen - Panchromies, 1970.Book, ink on paper.
>Jef Verheyen, Ivo Michiels, Paul Ibou, Frank Philippi, Multi-Art Gallery, Multi-Art Press International, Liliane Emma Staal, Jef Verheyen 40, 1972.Poster, ink on paper, 80 x 40 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, 6 Variaties op een thema: Morgen - Zee - Aarde - Nacht - l'Air - Vuur, 1976.Sketch, pencil and ink on paper (copy), 2 sides.
>Jef Verheyen, Notebook 'Venetië', 1976-1977.Book, notebook, mixed media, 31,8 x 23,6 cm.
>Karel J. Geirlandt, Jef Verheyen, Frank Maes, Bernd Urban, Paul Delmotte, Jef Verheyen Retrospectieve, 1979.Book, ink on paper, 29,5 x 21 cm.
>Ann Veronica Janssens, Magic Mirrors, 2019.Sculpture, 220 x 110 x 1.2 cm.
>Jef Verheyen, Painting pot from the artist’s studio.Ceramics, ceramics, paint.
>Jef Verheyen, Sammlung Lenz, Portrait of Jef.Photography, photograph.