Bram Kinsbergen: Available works

Since the advent of modern painting, the idea that a certain truth might be communicated through painting has been a recurring issue; it also animates Bram Kinsbergen’s painterly work as much as it did Cezanne’s. In Mental Traveler, his first solo exhibition with Everyday Gallery, Bram Kinsbergen (Belgium, 1984) fully explores this premise. At a time when everyone seems to have their own truth and individualization is affecting us more and more, Kinsbergen paints landscapes, objects, and figures that effectively characterize the tragedy of our social isolation.

As a painter, Kinsbergen work is a deliberately processual manner: with a few exploratory, well- thought-out strokes the image of an abandoned room or a lonely swimming pool appears on the canvas. With a few well-placed contours, a car appears that has become stuck in the snow or seems to be slowly sinking through the horizon. Kinsbergen makes all corrections to the canvas itself; the exploratory character of his work is reinforced by this technique.

Text by Bram Ieven