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Trautwein Herleth is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Raoul De Keyser (1930–2012).
Spanning nearly four decades of the artist’s oeuvre, the exhibition gives insight into De Keyser’s dedication to his medium, demonstrating the evolution of approaches employed by the artist to explore the possibilities of painting’s foundational elements: the relations between object, space and color.
De Keyser’s work, in its deceptive straightforwardness, exudes a deeply empathetic contact with everyday life and imparts human experience into what are ostensibly abstractions. In his earliest works, De Keyser painted cropped and simplified landscapes, most of which were characterized by some imposition of humanity–windows, door handles, fences, and, perhaps most famously, the painted chalk lines of soccer fields. Over the years, these references were reduced to their most elemental forms, embodying an experiential rather than pictorial attitude towards representation. The exhibition follows…
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Press Release
Trautwein Herleth is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Raoul De Keyser (1930–2012).
Spanning nearly four decades of the artist’s oeuvre, the exhibition gives insight into De Keyser’s dedication to his medium, demonstrating the evolution of approaches employed by the artist to explore the possibilities of painting’s foundational elements: the relations between object, space and color.
De Keyser’s work, in its deceptive straightforwardness, exudes a deeply empathetic contact with everyday life and imparts human experience into what are ostensibly abstractions. In his earliest works, De Keyser painted cropped and simplified landscapes, most of which were characterized by some imposition of humanity–windows, door handles, fences, and, perhaps most famously, the painted chalk lines of soccer fields. Over the years, these references were reduced to their most elemental forms, embodying an experiential rather than pictorial attitude towards representation. The exhibition follows…
















































































