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Tout est l\u00e0
BERNARD VILLERS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening on Thursday 19.01.23
from 5pm to 9pm
in the presence of the artist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition 20.01.23 – 25.02.23
Ir\u00e8ne Laub Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Location
Ir\u00e8ne Laub Gallery
29 rue Van Eyck, 1050 Brussels (BE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The title of Bernard Villers\u2019 exhibition at Ir\u00e8ne Laub gallery is hardly a joke. Through this \u201cmishmash\u201d display, as he himself describes it, the octogenarian artist seems to be making a mockery of the very idea of progress, as if the ingredients that make up his Work have been together from the start and were merely unveiling themselves as the years went by.
Thus, the exhibition cheerfully mixes old and recent paintings on different supports, without hierarchy, always with the same concerns in mind: revealing colour, playing with the effects of light and transparency.
In this respect, the title could just as well be an incentive to approach, to take a closer look. For the curious, it is an invitation to fearlessly confront the white cube and, for the more daring, a lesson in humility.
Indeed, the artist has embraced and made his own the minimalist vulgate: Less is more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating artworks at minimal cost, using everything from household scraps (the famous \u201ccagettes\u201d) to industrial leftovers, he also claims to make as little effort as possible. Which, as you can imagine, is only half true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both rigorous in its principles \u2013 inherited from constructivism, concrete art, American abstract painting and also Supports\/Surfaces \u2013 and playful in its application, Bernard Villers\u2019 work oscillates between two poles that one might say are opposites, but in fact accommodate each other quite well. Jacques Liz\u00e8ne, to whom we owe some clever puns, said of Villers that he is a \u201chumorous minimalist\u201d. His painting and publishing work have confirmed this for over fifty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Septembre Tiberghien<\/strong>, December 2022
[The full article will be published in the January edition of L\u2019art m\u00eame magazine]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tout est l\u00e0BERNARD VILLERS Opening on Thursday 19.01.23from 5pm to 9pmin the presence of the artist Exhibition 20.01.23 – 25.02.23Ir\u00e8ne Laub Gallery, Brussels (BE)LocationIr\u00e8ne Laub Gallery29 rue Van Eyck, 1050 Brussels (BE) The title of Bernard Villers\u2019 exhibition at Ir\u00e8ne Laub gallery is hardly a joke. Through this \u201cmishmash\u201d display, as he himself describes it, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expositions"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bernardvillers.be\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/unnamed-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernardvillers.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernardvillers.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernardvillers.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernardvillers.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernardvillers.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bernardvillers.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6601,"href":"https:\/\/bernardvillers.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions\/6601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernardvillers.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernardvillers.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernardvillers.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernardvillers.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}