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We are pleased to welcome you to ‘Prelude’ an exhibition with 8 new and unseen paintings from 2024 by Hans Vandekerckhove, titled ‘Christina’s Flowers’. The exhibition is a prelude to the larger presentation of paintings planned at the gallery in autumn of 2025.
Nature plays a prominent role in Hans Vandekerckhove’s practice: the artist often depicts trees as a forest, representing the larger whole or community, but equally as a solitary ‘character’. In a painting from 2016 in which Vandekerckhove appears to have painted a tree whisperer, he questions whether trees dream. This work, depicted in the latest monograph ‘Silence is a Message’ (2024) was gifted to Paul & Magda, friends of the artist whose garden has been a source of inspiration to Hans for more than two decades.
When Paul died in 2023, he left a park garden. Hans painted this garden, the pond, the trees as a tribute to his erudite friend whose motto was ‘il faut cultiver notre jardin’. While these paintings were being…
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We are pleased to welcome you to ‘Prelude’ an exhibition with 8 new and unseen paintings from 2024 by Hans Vandekerckhove, titled ‘Christina’s Flowers’. The exhibition is a prelude to the larger presentation of paintings planned at the gallery in autumn of 2025.
Nature plays a prominent role in Hans Vandekerckhove’s practice: the artist often depicts trees as a forest, representing the larger whole or community, but equally as a solitary ‘character’. In a painting from 2016 in which Vandekerckhove appears to have painted a tree whisperer, he questions whether trees dream. This work, depicted in the latest monograph ‘Silence is a Message’ (2024) was gifted to Paul & Magda, friends of the artist whose garden has been a source of inspiration to Hans for more than two decades.
When Paul died in 2023, he left a park garden. Hans painted this garden, the pond, the trees as a tribute to his erudite friend whose motto was ‘il faut cultiver notre jardin’. While these paintings were being…





















































