Each of the works in the installation in which this work was first shown has as its basis a large-scale digital print of an historical composition, relating to a performance by Chetwynd – whether the…
‘Innocence is precisely: never to avoid the worst.’ This final sentence of Lettre au nègre , written in 2003 by Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009), has become the title of an exhibition…
Infectiously playful and incredibly versatile: anyone who sees the editions produced by the German artist Sigmar Polke (Oels [Oleśnica], 1941 – Cologne, 2010) can immediately understand why he was…
The exhibition in the project space is devoted to paintings by Nan Groot Antink (Boxtel, 1954). Her earliest works in this presentation date from 1989. Emphasis lies with the recent work. For roughly…
The exhibition of drawings by Werner Moonen (Ghent 1940) in De Pont's project space pays tribute to this Tilburg artist on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Ever since his art school days,…
The motif is changeable by nature. In a painting, for instance, it assumes a flaccid form which then swells and shrinks, becomes softer or harder. Its shapes are fluid forms of metamorphosis. The…
Violence brews in the paintings of Luc Tuymans; though out of sight, it is always palpable, imminent and alarming. The depictions show their confusing, traumatic import only indirectly. The images…
Prior to our extensive solo exhibition by the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, the summer offers an opportunity to have a fresh look at De Pont's collection. On view during this period are…
The interplay of applying and removing paint, of presence and absence: it constitutes the essence of the oeuvre developed by Scottish artist Callum Innes (Edinburgh, 1962). The exhibition I’ll Close…
Ceremonia de la caja (Ceremony of the Crate) is part of Sin fin , a group of paintings and drawings from 2010. The inspiration for the series came from a newspaper photograph showing three women using…