JOHAN GELPER
Location:
Parce Art Studio, Palinghuizen 78, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Dates:
13 July - 1 September 2024
Opened on thursdays to sundays from 9 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Other days on appointment.
Opening on 13 July 2024 from 6-9 p.m.
Johan Gelper's work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and France, including prominent museums such as the M Museum, Mu.Zee, and the MSK Ghent. His art is also part of public and private collections in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Denmark, including notable collections like the SMAK Museum, SONS Museum, the Verbeke Foundation, and the Province of East-Flanders. In both 2007 and 2008 he won the Young Artist prize of the SMAK Museum.
What distinguishes Johan Gelper’s work
What distinguishes Johan Gelper’s work is his playful method of tracing. He tracks, discovers, draws, and accentuates a movement that seems to connect the immaterial world with the reality of tangible objects. The mental world of ideas and thoughts, which attract and repel, engage and disengage, open and close, take on surprising
forms in Gelper’s work.
These forms are created by careful exploration, observation and sensing of the environment. His play on proportions colours the game of acceptance and avoidance. Found objects are combined to create a new situation. Connections are added with purifying precision, the artist always respecting the random nature of playful elements.
His witty take on human attempts to make sense of the world, his tireless exploration of mediums and techniques,gives a lighthearted appearance to the work. Johan Gelper’s sense of aesthetics, which enables him to expose thetrue nature of objects, is especially admirable.Gelper’s design makes fragments of our thoughts perceptible in space. A space that directs our thoughts and actions:front is connected to back, above is set in opposition to below, depth and surface complement each other,speed gives perspective to standing still, and so on.The beauty of his work is not static, but is reflected in the dynamically vibrant balance between what createshuman beings and what shapes and directs them.
Lief Brijs 8/01/2016 - translation ; Kathy Kayser
PROGRAM
Exhibition Johan Gelper
13 July - 1 September 2024
Open on Thursdays to Sundays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Other days on appointment
Workshop
TBA
