Ria Vanden Eynde

Exhibition

Ria Vanden Eynde
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With ‘VISTAS’ Ria Vanden Eynde seeks ways to make her landscapes speak as witnesses of social themes’s and thus tries to transcend a mere view. This exhibition is a reflection of her quest. The ‘VISTAS’ are landscapes she painted during the various summer internships she has been following in the USA (New York, Brooklyn, Connecticut) since 2011 after a training at the art academy of Leuven. Ria starts from direct observation and links back to subjective perception. Through a thorough reduction of shapes and thoughtful expressive color use, she evokes the landscapes that become so full protagonists and invite the viewer to a visual reflection on the hardening and eclipse of society. Her oil painted canvases hang loose, not clamped, a nod to the tradition of Flemish carpet art.

She is currently working on 'The Anatomy Lesson,' a series of paintings, monoprints and sculptures based on 16th century anatomist Andreas Vesalius' work 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libris Septem,' with attention for how female bodies were and are still approached in biomedical sciences. As a socially engaged artist, Ria tries to provide a visual social critique, to render a record of what is going on, perhaps a more real record than presented in the media, believing that art can expose, more radically than is possible in the day-to-day reality of life, what it means exactly to be a fleshed human being in the world today.

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