Multiple, 50 x 36 x 7 cm, base 1,5 cm (h).
© SABAM Belgium, 2024, Jan Liégeois / Jef Verheyen Archive
Collection: Jef Verheyen Archive.
Le Vide is the ultimate window on infinity. It directs
the gaze, to everything and to nothing. Looking
becomes staring into emptiness. Art thus loses
its material form. In 1967, Verheyen and German
artist Günther Uecker hold a joint happening.
They install Le Vide – French for ‘emptiness’ or
‘the void’ – in a field, in Mullem, East Flanders.
That open-air exhibition, Vlaamse Landschappen –
Flemish Landscapes – is a nod to Verheyen’s
identity as a Flemish painter. His paintings are
also voids, windows through which he explores
the suggestion of infinite space.
Add to your list> Jef Verheyen.
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Sammlung Lenz.
> Exhibition: Jef Verheyen. Window on Infinity. KMSKA, Antwerpen, 23 March 2024 - 18 August 2024.
> Exhibition: gegen den Himmel. against the sky. Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Leverkusen, 15 September 2024 - 23 February 2025.
> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - OEUVRE.
> Ensemble: Window on Infinity - Room 01.
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>Jef Verheyen, 678 Le Plein, 1967.Sculpture, high-grade steel, polished, 65 x 41,5 x 7,5 cm.
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>Jef Verheyen, Sammlung Lenz, The ZERO Era (Vol. 1 & 2), 2009.Book.
>Gerald Dauphin, Jef Verheyen, Jef Verheyen presents his sculpture 'Le Vide' up against the sky, 1965.Photography, photograph.