Patrick Teugels-Exhibition Visit

The painter Patrick Teugels (Dendermonde 1960), exhibition "No anyhow without a somehow" march 2009, Waasmunster (B). Zeuxys project.

http://www.patrickteugels.be

Vidéo made by Nicolai Blomstrand, voice Lara Crabbé.

Patrick Teugels creates a varietyof paintings, situated in the field of tension between word and image, the individual and society, the natural and the artificial. Nothing is created without a certain transcendence, to be understood as one's uniting from the emmediate commitment to reality, in order to get a better insight thanks to the obtained distance. Quit paradoxical to this, Teugels tries to let images well up out of the "nothing". Not the contentless nothing, but the guided subconscious. White touches become paintings. The interaction between word and image is an endless relation. This tought doesn't mean the world is incomplete or imperfect when confronted with the image, rather that the one cannot be reduced to the other, both are self supporting and seperate. This relation clearly espresses itself in the work of the artist. Text and image are identities on their own. The artist will not use moralizing slogans, but "trouvailles" stuck to his personal mind. Very obvious are the different layers of the paintings: the image as a background becomes the carrier of the words that are painted over them. The text makes the image more personal, direct, it talks to the viewer in an Universal way. The self-portrait is unique by painting the head in a demension equaling the artist's full body length. "No anyhow without a somehow" also is the title of the exposition. Originally this exposition had the intention to create a dialogue between Patrick Teugels's work and his father's.
The death-portrait in this way indirectly refers to the work of Georges Teugels.

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