Walter Swennen (What The Body Can Do)
Walter Swennen, Tom Mason
Posture, 2025
€32,00
This publication contains forty works, created between 2018 and 2022 that were exhibited at Galerie Nicolas Krupp, Basel (04.11.2022 – 18.01.2023) and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (09.06 to 05.08.2023).
‘what the body can do’ comprises a series of works that were made to try out certain colour combinations, layers, gestures, brush movements and other ‘preparatory’ activities for his paintings. When Swennen came across them later, he noticed that some of these paintings needed only minor changes or additions before resulting into a ‘finished work’.
‘Painting is a physical activity, evidence of which can be found as much in the mess, debris and accidental side creations in the studio as in the finished canvases. All the actions of painting pass through the body. Yet when seeing these works one is only vaguely aware that one has made them, Swennen will muse, “it is hard to tell which of me did it”.’
The book includes a text by British visual artist and writer Tom Mason (EN), who has been actively following Walter’s work for fifteen years. Walter Swennen himself adds some thoughts.
ISBN: 9789491262661
