Chris De Becker

How to paint the wind ?
You can't represent the wind but you can paint it.
Why paint, what to paint and how to paint it ?
We paint and draw out of necessity, as we have to eat, drink or sleep. We paint because we are not photographers, pastry chefs or philosophers ...
We don't paint what we see but what we perceive in a subjective way and not objectively. Not to reproduce or copy, but to free oneself from it, to distance oneself from it, to retain only clues.
We are no longer in the age of beauty but confronted with the real in the face of the virtual. The beautiful and the ugly are the invention of another time.
What we have done with the real is unnatural, but it is now the subject. Is beautiful what I find beautiful and you may find ugly and vice versa.
Art no longer has the vocation of restoring reality and magnifying it, but of showing reality as it should be seen.
We are facing the signs of humanity's extinction, we must paint them to invite ourselves to really see, to emancipate ourselves from the stereotypes of postmodernity, from this "society of the spectacle" denounced as early as 1967 by the situationist Guy Debord.
We consume images like we eat crisps, to the point of indigestion.
So for me, to do somet...

Chris De Becker is graduate in visual communication from "La Cambre", a higher art school in Brussels (Belgium). After a first career as artistic director, he opened his own contemporary art gallery in 1990 in Brussels. His knowledge of visual communication tools and the art world, as well as his personal practice as a visual artist lead his work to explore the issues of contemporary image in our societies. His pictorial work is read by series, each bearing a title - a clue, allowing the viewer to enter into the subject. Afterwards, the relevance of the subject will be judged.

Artitude Gallery - www.artitude.be