Roger Wittevrongel Grafisch Werk - Printmaking

Visualising not so much that sliver of reality he has chosen and isolated, as the way in which he approches that sliver.

Roger Wittevrongel (born in Blankenberge, Belgian Flanders, 1933) is commonly considered an exponent of hyperrealism, a style of painting typical of later 20th century American and European art that typically takes photographs as its source material. Axiomatic in that art movement is the clear and instant recognisability of what is painted, next to the immense impact of photography in the way reality is perceived.

By completely eliminating all signifying context, Wittevrongel manages magically to disappear and thus to steer clear of all moralizing comments and of social commitment issues.

What Wittevrongel intends to create, is an autonomous world of forms in which the ever-deceitful interplay between reality and its depiction is utterly bracketed out.

For Wittevrongel, it is the paltry and the spare, at times even the wretchedly banal that receive full attention. What hits his retina is what you get. Rather than the anatomist’s dissecting quest for comprehensiveness or the coprophilous obsession with dung-eating and orduregathering, there is the strong and patent conviction that poetry resides, not in lofty thought and deep sentiment but in the exiguous details of everyday life which we had often rather not see.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Binding Hardcover

Measurements 310 x 240 mm

Weight 1,20 kg

Language NL / EN

Number of pages 160

Book design Annie Naskyd