Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Robert Devriendt










Robert Devriendt paints and arranges pictures in imaginative and narrative sequences. He's a wonderful storyteller. The sequence above is called 'DIE GESCHICHTE EINES JÄGERS', 2008.

In 2008 we made an exhibition on found photography called: 'A pictures is worth a thousand words'. Robert was one of the participants. He wrote an illuminating text about an image not much bigger than a stamp. Later we met him in his studio and saw a few of his paintings. It turned out that they were about the size of an average snapshot. In fact they are even smaller. "I could easily paint in the back of my car", he said, smiling...

More works by Robert Devriendt here.