A superb overview of the oeuvre of a conceptual painter: Belgian artist Jef Verheyen. The book contains an extensive visual essay in which Verheyen’s development is depicted in dialogue with work by his contemporaries.
ForewordBart De BaereCarmen WillemsLuk LemmensHerman De Bode10IntroductionAnnelien De TroijAdriaan Gonnissen16The Artist WhoMakes Paint Dream.The Liberation of theIdea in the Oeuvre ofJef Verheyen (1950–1960)Annelien De Troij44Reflections from Dark to Light “between the Black and the White”.Jef Verheyen’s Endgame of Modern PaintingAdriaan Gonnissen64In Conversation with Jef VerheyenAlbert Baronian270Monochrome, Achrome, Panchrome. The Painting of Jef VerheyenDieter Schwarz286“When Attitudes Become Monochrome.” Jef Verheyen, Monochrome Painting, ZERO, Nothing and FreedomThekla Zell300The Perception of Colour, Light, Space and Time. Contemporary Artists and the Work of Jef Verheyen:Four InterviewsRoel Arkesteijn315Jef Verheyen: ChronologyAnnelien De Troij352Index of Names
