* Hilde Overbergh: spilled milk
Frits de Coninck, Frank Maes, Femke Vandenbosch
Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2021
€35,00
Richly illustrated and with essays focusing on the artist’s wide range of working strategies, Spilled Milk presents the first comprehensive selection of work by Hilde Overbergh from the past eight years. When the artist was 19 years old, standing on the corner of Bryant street and 15th street in San Francisco, she took a view on The Vats, an abandoned building in complete decay, rehearsal space and crash pad to the local punk scene. The energy intrigued her. All this destruction and freedom was there for her to feed upon and to develop her artistic career. In her early large-scale paintings, she already included discarded and found materials from dumpsters and construction-sites. As her work developed the game with painting, objects and space became more apparent. Today Overbergh creates a world where paint, color and installations tell us stories about relations, construction and deconstruction.
SPILLED MILK is about beautiful blunders and how not to cry. To cherish the opportunity to create. Trial and error. Two steps forward one step back. Spill the milk and celebrate the mess. Cheer the spark, the ignition point and the chain reaction. It’s an invitation to court the accidental encounter. — Hilde Overbergh
ISBN: 9789463934350
