HANS OP DE BEECK 'The Cliff'

Hans Op de Beeck seduces us into melancholic worlds of images between reality  and dream. These are stages of imagination and contemplation; spatial pictorial situations of timelessness and seclusion, silence and stillness. In part, they are experienceable in a filmic or pictorial medium and in part walkable in reality. Op de Beeck is the director, stage designer, choreographer, painter, curator, and sculptor, all in one person. The artist has personally choreographed the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Krems as well as created special sculptural installations for the event. The show becomes a journey a passage. One comes across monochrome environments, cast in gray: children intimately immersed in their activities, a sleeping girl on a raft drifting in the water— playing marbles, shooting arrows from a bow — and a pair of lovers sitting together on a rock. The Cliff, which is the title of both the piece and the exhibition, is a romantic naturescape in the shape of a life-sized sculptural installation. Everyday life and art blur into one another; For the artist this is an own interpretation in a process-based creative manifestation of the sculptural work. At night, Op de Beeck, painter and draftsman, delves into the world of ink painting  and watercolours. Nocturnal animation film Night Time is presented in the exhibition together with a selection of other films, among them, also Staging Silence (2).