Vincent de Roder (° 1958) lives and works in Wetteren, Belgium

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These works are painted in rather austere surfaces,clearly distinguishable the one from the other.The colours are not withdrawn.They sometimes shimmer in fluorescent lights.It gives the works an internal tension:a contemporaneity in the colours and a tranquillity in the setting of the paint.On the colour  pathways  a  tight  line  is  drawn  in  sharp  folds  and  on  the  rest  a  pedestrian  stroke  so  within one and the same work we have a passivity and a dynamism.The line which barely takes up any space ammonite the areas of colour, unbalances the background but does maintain its balance in a sweltering way.The line has freed itself from the form, the colour has conquered its independence.’(Johan Velter)