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Wed 05 May 2009Belgian minimalism and rock'n'roll excess
THE BELGIAN artist Raoul De Keyser, whose watercolours are on view at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, last showed in Ireland at the RHA, in 2000. That survey exhibition of his oil paintings made clear the long-term, strategic nature of his art, and confirmed the significance of his role in the emergence of a new kind of painting.
His younger and probably better known compatriot, Luc Tuymans, had already acknowledged his influence. As with Tuymans’s work, De Keyser’s paintings are usually quite small in scale, oblique in their approach to their subject matter, and subdued in mood.
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