Hans op de Beeck | the artist

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Hans op de Beeck
Artist’s website

Hans op de Beeck
Thematically, the work of Hans Op de Beeck is concerned with the difficult relationship man has with time and space and with his fellow man. His images show non-existent yet identifiable places, moments and characters that appear to be taken from everyday life and capture the tragicomic absurdity of postmodern existence. Key to his oeuvre are the abstraction of time, the fading of distance and the disembodiment of the individual – results of globalisation. Also under discussion are the changes brought to our living environment by developments in media, automation and technology…

Hans op de Beeck
Works, biography, texts

Hans op de Beeck
Visual artist Hans Op de Beeck lives and works in Brussels, where he has developed his career through international exhibitions over the past ten years. His work consists of sculptures, installations, video work, photography, animated films, drawings, paintings and writing (short stories). It is his quest for the most effective way of presenting the concrete contents of each work that determines the medium that the artist ultimately selects. The scale can vary from the size of a small watercolour to a large, three-dimensional installation of 300m2.
The artist not only uses a very wide variety of media, but also deliberately employs a diversity of aesthetic forms, ranging from an economical, minimalist visual language to overloaded, exaggerated designs, always with the aim of articulating the content of the work as precisely as possible…