Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie (* April 27, 1939 ) is a Belgian painter. Pevernagie paints mostly in oil on canvas in an abstract style. Its main theme is the human being in its environment.

It provides, among other things in Ric 's Art Boat in Brussels, Palais des Expositions in Namur and in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Paris, Antwerp, New York City, Amsterdam, Lucca (Italy).

Work

Pevernagie combine elements of abstract and figurative elements and combines geometric areas of color with persons or architectural spaces. It uses material conditions such as sand and metal shavings that give his pictures their special surface structure. Light reflections give the individual faces a nuanced color.

Reviews

• "His art, which is undoubtedly matieristisch and sensual, also owns a real human message and invokes an awareness without compromising forth. " ( Nagel, Stuttgart).

• "Man is the focus of his works. At the same time it is integrated in its natural environment. You could even say that he is sometimes absorbed by its environment. On the other hand, seems Pevernagie deny this because it introduces graffiti in his works. So he wants to testify solitude in the world and the alienation in the urban fabric. " ( Bénézit encyclopedia, Paris)

• " The painter Erik Pevernagie admits in his paintings the people a decisive point one, especially because he is considerate of the world in which he lives. The person who is put back into its environment, seems from the elements that surround him, resolved. This environment is thereby produced by the artist using graffiti. The delicate strokes of color, the semi - abstract, semi - figurative forms, and the special setting of the images contribute to the subject, whose life appears merely as a sham to dissolve. (....). Those figures are under constant tension, as if they see something else contrary, a different life. " (Le Vif / L' Express)

• "For me it's even more the shape that one perceives as the idea of the painter, which surprised and alienated me. Erik Pevernagie obviously goes out of a situation in everyday life. The shape, structure and force themselves to cause some problems. The canvas is almost empty. There are no cumbersome details. No technical tricks. I realize that it is the "Details", the small objects of life that surround us, and which provide the framework through which we see the world, and to stimulate and promote the idea. These are the objects that often replace the inner world in many people. " (L. Krasnova )