The second volume of the defiinitive reference work on Belgian artist Philippe Van Snick, richly illustrated and featuring in-depth essays, offers a comprehensive overview of the artist's oeuvre, and new insights and discoveries about his work.
Philippe Van Snick passed away in 2019. Yet his work continues to live on and is still regularly presented in exhibitions and museum collections. Research into his oeuvre also continues, and this publication is a reflection of that ongoing engagement.
The point of departure for this book is the solo exhibition held at S.M.A.K. in Ghent from 22 October 2022 to 5 March 2023, which is revisited here through installation views. Since then, a considerable amount of new information about Van Snick's work has come to light. A comprehensive survey of his oeuvre, together with in-depth research, forms the backbone of this monograph. The book also includes substantial essays by Anthony Hudek, a letter by Philippe Van Cauteren, and much more.
Philippe Van Snick (1946–2019) was a Belgian artist. Van Snick developed a simple pictorial form of language that is related to minimalism. He relied on binary logic and on patterns in the dynamics of the cosmos and daily reality to develop formulae. Van Snick thus created a decimal system with which he makes the reality around him manageable and which concomitantly forms the core of his palette consisting of ten colours: red, yellow, blue, orange, purple, green, white, black, gold and silver. The artist uses these colours to render observations and feelings in a systematic way.
