De Pont receives important gift from private collector De Pont has recently received a large number of works by the Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser as a gift of Wijnand Sengers. The Rotterdam…
The young American artist Roxy Paine (New York, 1966) has shown his work in Europe only on a limited scale until now. Aside from a small solo presentation at Lunds Konsthall in Sweden, this has mainly…
The observation that the tension of the painterly image relies on contrasts is hardly a new one. Whether these are contrasts between figure and background or between the opaque and the transparent, in…
Jan Andriesse once remarked that making a painting is, and always will be, the only rational exercise in futility. This remark undoubtedly arose from his conviction that it is impossible to use visual…
‘Please note: jma wishes to make it clear that five paintings are not yet finished.’ Jean-Michel Alberola once placed this text at the entrance to a Paris gallery as an introduction to his exhibition.…
" There's a moment when a painting falls into its shape. The only thing I need to do is to see and to recognize that moment. The colors that Marenne Welten employs in her paintings evoke the thought…
Since the early nineties there has been considerable international interest in the work of the Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser, who is regarded in his own country as being the father of contemporary…
'Don’t paint the thing itself; paint the effect it produces' (Howard Hodgkin) This exhibition focuses on Howard Hodgkin’s paintings of places and moments in time as subjective expressions of visual…
The Tilburg artist Koen Delaere (1970) worked in one of De Pont’s guest studios from 1995 to 1996. On graduating from the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, his work already stood out due to the great…
To Philippe Vandenberg art and life were one. This outlook determined both the strength and the dramatic quality of all his work. By the time Vandenberg finished art school in Ghent, in 1976, he was…