Guy Vandenbranden - Kleurrijke zeefdruk: Cathedrale de la lumiere - 1999 (laatste exemplaar!) - Sold

Colorful screen print by Guy Vandenbranden. Title: Cathedrale de la Lumiere. Year: 1999. Number: 46/125.
Dimensions top: H90 x W70cm. Presentation dimensions: H62 x w47.5cm
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Guy Vandenbranden (Ixelles, 14 July 1926 - Antwerp, 3 June 2014) was a Belgian artist. He was involved as a painter, draftsman, collage artist, sculptor and graphic artist.
From 1951, Guy Vandenbranden said goodbye to figuration for good and started working in a lyrical abstract way. In 1952 Vandenbranden entered the Brussels art scene and became friends with Pol Bury, Jo Delahaut, Kurt Lewy, Jean Rets and Jean Milo. Thanks to these contacts, Guy Vandenbranden joined the artists' group "Art Abstrait" in 1956. Vandenbranden worked completely geometrically abstract from 1954 and practiced this visual language consistently until his death in 2014. Around 1958 Vandenranden worked mainly in black and white, whereby his artworks almost reached monochromy and there was a clear connection with the work of the American Hard Edge of that time. From 1961 Vandenbranden started working with relief and his first abstract sculptures were created. From 1967 Guy Vandenbranden started spraying cellulose lacquer directly on panels with the aim of creating visual illusions (related to Op Art).
From the second half of the seventies, monumental commissions were received. In 1982 he realized a stained glass window in Beekkant, a metro station in Brussels. The work consists of fifteen concatenated elements with a repetition of colours.
New Flemish School
In 1959, Vandenbranden, together with Jef Verheyen, planned to open an Antwerp avant-garde gallery to bring together artists with a like-minded spirit. Piero Manzoni, Jean Tinguely and Lucio Fontana had promised to work together, but in the end this project fell through and G58 took over the role of platform for a new (European) avant-garde in the Hessenhuis in Antwerp. After their project was cancelled, Vandenbranden and Jef Verheyen forged plans with Englebert Van Anderlecht that would lead to the founding of the New Flemish School in 1960. This group of artists, to which Paul Van Hoeydonck, Jan Dries and Vic Gentils also joined, aimed to promote their art internationally with exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland and Italy, among others.