‘TH I V III’ Jef Verheyen

• A characteristic work from Verheyens’s fascinating ‘Light Arrow’ phase of the 1970s • Vibrant diagonal bands of colour create a dynamic accent within the delicately shimmering, almost weightless picture plane • A pioneering figure of the avant-garde associated with ZERO, honoured in 2024 with a major retrospective in Antwerp Jef Verheyen ranks among the most original representatives of post-war European abstraction. Closely associated with the artists of the ZERO movement, in particular Lucio Fontana, Heinz Mack and Günther Uecker, the Belgian artist developed a style of painting in which light and colour become the very subjects of the work. His interest lay less in the representation of visible reality than in the possibilities of our perception. This gave rise to works of great meditative depth, whose finely nuanced colour palette creates an almost immaterial effect. This work from 1973 belongs to the creative phase of his so-called ‘light arrows’, in which Verheyen combines the subtle modulation of colour fields with clear geometric compositions. From a delicately shimmering background, shifting between warm rosé and cool grey tones, a narrow bundle of coloured diagonals emerges. At first barely perceptible, the lines intensify into luminous yellow, green and deep violet. Their dynamic movement stands in striking contrast to the utter tranquillity of the surrounding colour field. The major retrospective at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 2024 has once again brought to the fore the art-historical significance of this long-underestimated artist. | 1932 Itegem - Apt 1984 | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Gemälde | Nummer: 26x2251 | Provenance: Privatsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

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