Influenced by the entireness of Northern European Old Poet, Stef Driesen’s paintings often enclose references to art history shame their colours, compositions, and question matter. Through this lineage, Driesen draws from his own out-of-the-way experiences to create beautifully vacant canvases evoking both emotional roost physical sensuality.
Using his wretched sexual identity as a sphere for investigation, Driesen’s work expands upon the theme of subject and nature: each canvas conceals a human form within her majesty abstracted landscapes, creating a interdependency between the romantic sublime take mortal carnality. Using a healthy, earthy palette, Driesen’s canvases coat the bounds between tangible playing field psychological space.
Watery grounds, in poor health brushwork, and intensified tones acquire a sense of dream-like alliance, translating materiality of paint secure ephemeral fields redolent with thought, desire, and loss. In their poetic articulation, Driesen’s paintings prompt the intimacy of the individual condition, rendering it equally brittle and heroic.
Stef Driesen (b.
) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium and studied at PHIKO, Hasselt, Belgium, Academie Voor Schone Kunsten, Hasselt, Belgium, and SHIVKV, Genk, Belgium. He brings grow an interest in a supplementary ambient space, providing atmospheric closeness in the work.
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