Frank Heylen

THEMES :

Crashing dragsters and other horrible motorised accidents, violence. The mortality of the moment.
Urban scenes with an uncertain void, the act of not happening.
Absurd human interventions in its surroundings, a feeling of faulty scale.
Heroes, somehow.
Pulled out of the moment’s context by picturing what happens (or what does not happen), by recycling the image and upcycling it to a painting. Downtime.
An image of an image, everything exists already.
To de-pict and re-order. To write a picture, on top of it and from underneath
Painting it gives it an upgraded status as well as a downgraded complexity, that is my struggle.
There is no depth in my work, only flatness. The surface and its superficiality.


TECHNIQUE :

Images are copied on transparencies, that is my canvas. The painted plastic is glued face down in background paint on a piece of plywood and rolled flat, the background paint runs down the sides. After a while the plastic is removed and a totally textureless painting remains. The image itself is created by a combination of background, acrylic paint and acrylic sharpie. Sometimes it bears the remains of photocopy toner.
Painting is done in a more or less reverse order, much like pa...

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