About
Colette Van Gompel’s paintings are figurative. Characters are observed from a certain distance. Their actions, often ordinary, remain elusive. Frozen on the canvas, these figures are always isolated and lack depth, as does the context around them.
Erase
in order
to create
Images
The paintings in the studio, their details, and the spaces they inhabit
« Le fond… c'est le lieu d'où viennent les choses. »
— Arié Mandelbaum
Paintings
Silent figures, open spaces, suspended gestures
Alba
Acropolis
Sunset
Figures on the pontoon
Yalta
Heavy legs
Alba 2
No comment
Wolf
Minotaur
Sarcophagus
Inuit
Siamese
The skis
A gaping hole
Man pulls man
Adam & Eve
Grabbing the Y
Alba 3
Studies
Irish boys
Sakura
Waiting for the dice game
Afternoon snack
The woman and her dwarf
Leynen a maisse
Deer
Studies
Swing
The buoy
Train journey
Russian roulette
The veil in front of the eyes
The strait
A kashe
A sod
We are all in the same boat
« Car là où le jeu perpétuel de nos relations avec le monde est interrompu, on ne trouve pas, comme on aurait tout lieu de le penser, la mort, ni le « moi pur », mais le fait anonyme de l’être. »
— Lévinas
Exhibitions
Selection of recent exhibitions and presentations
March 2025
Studio Bruna
Oct. – Nov. 2024
In Voorbereiding — De Markten
May 2024
House of Glow
Music by Red Apple Tapes
Sept. 2023
Studio Léon Sneyers
Dec. 2022 – Jan. 2023
LUCA Bib Sint-Lukas
April 2022
Chez Ernest & Alfons
June 2021
MOK
Sept. 2016
First Floor
Contact
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