ABOUT *

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Bart Slangen pussyfooting breaks through perfection, starting from the idea that you shouldn’t paint what you see, but that you can anticipate the visible world. He guides us through a world that we recognize and yet is alienating, a world that is not actually bound by time and space. His images express a somewhat melancholic desire for beauty, purity and neverthless… perfection.


– Daan Rau

Bart Slangen concentrates on unusual landscapes, such as a freeway with a bridge. In his green-tinted images, he creates a kind of alienating ‘dusk’ or is it, on the contrary, ‘the hour between dog and wolf’, the dawning moment of doubt of which direction to take? In any case, his works radiate both peace and restlessness, intimacy and detachment, certainty and doubt. It is exactly this duality that makes them so fascinating.

– Els Wuyts

At first glance, Bart Slangen’s work looks rather ordinary, both landscape and portrait. But still, you sense a kind of alienation….

By leaving out certain elements -in his landscapes you rarely if ever see a human presence- and the monochrome use of color, he paints a melancholic and mysterious atmosphere. The blue-green-gray palette creates a time that cannot be precisely defined, a misty morning or rising darkness. The ‘pixels’ are a metaphor for a parallel world or a portal to this (dream) world.

Bart’s works radiate restlessness and doubt but also intimism and romance.
His paintings are technically almost classical but the original clarity and sharpness is deliberately provided with a cloudy glaze, a layer of noise. They balance between a photographic and painted world of their own. Again and again that duality that makes his work so unique.

EXPOS *
2022

MIJN LANDSCHAP / MY LANDSCAPE

Morbee Gallery
Knokke-Heist

2019

FROM LANDSCAPE TO ABSTRACTION

Galerie Lieve Lambrecht
Merendree

STEPHAN BALKENHOL / BART SLANGEN

Inter Art Center
Hasselt

2017

PARK

Tilburg

2016

IMAGES ARE THE NEW THINKING #4

Poortgebouw Abdijsite
Herkenrode

LANDSCAPES & MILESTONES

Galerie Lieve Lambrecht
Merendree

2015

VILLA DE OLMEN

Olmen

2013

A SECRET SHOW

Bart Slangen-Jerry Heymans-Yves Velter
Melle

2012

DAS UNHEIMLICHE

galerie Lieve Lambrecht
Merendree

2010

BART SLANGEN / GIDEON KIEFER

Dommelhof
Neerpelt

2007

fw:PAINTING - Les invité(e)s

Cacaofabriek
Helmond (NL)

CIAP

Hasselt

2006

PAINTED

Galerie Link
Gent

MILLA-TUNES

Galerie Oost
Maasmechelen

2004

BART SLANGEN / ZJUUL DEVENS

Galerie Link
Gent

2002

ROADZ

Galerie Oost
Maasmechelen

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