Overview

Adelheid De Witte is an autodidact. After wandering around Barcelona and painting behind closed doors for five years, the artist has been showing her masterful paintings and surprising objects for a short while now. In that span of time her works have become more and more abstract. Representation turned out to be too restrictive for De Witte and so figuration disappeared into the background to finally dissolve into cloudy structures and vibrating line figures. 

 

From her research into light and shadow effects as well as colour creation, abstract landscapes emerged in which occasionally elements appear that vaguely recall objects. Objects that the artist found on the streets of Barcelona back then and which she incorporated into assemblages and installations. Spatial interventions such as a collection of cut umbrellas on the floor already testified to De Witte’s fascination with materials, but also to her urge to break out into space. Today she pushes the boundaries of the two-dimensional surface further and further away with her often larger-format canvases. The landscape fades out and eventually evaporates. It is up to the viewer to project a landscape in the clouds and the incidence of light.

 

For her paintings the artist does not limit herself to classical canvases. Their shape is unusual: round, polygonal or that of a (round arched) window. In addition to canvas, she also brings materials such as wood, slate, old lace machines and drumheads into the studio. De Witte does not necessarily apply colour with a brush or not even with a binder mixed into paint for that matter. She also rubs pure pigment into canvas, puts it into tubes and lets colour light up in neon sculptures.

 

Text by Roxane Baeyens

 

Works
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Biography

Adelheid de Witte is a self taught artist. Taking inspiration from her time living and working in

Barcelona, her works have been exhibited regularly across Europe, in particular in her home-country of Belgium. She has had regular solo shows since she began exhibiting in 2014 and her works are held in numerous private collections. Her show Any Wishes? with Cadogan in April 2023 will be her first solo exhibition in London.

 


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

 

'Any Wishes?', Cadogan Gallery, London

2021

 

'Chit Chat: Art on Paper', BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium

2021

 

'There are Fireworks at 11pm', Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

2019

 

'Rust & Ruhe', No Pop No Up, Ghent, Belgium

2016

 

'ESPACE #43', Galeries Rivoli, Brussels, Belgium

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

 

'In Medias Res', Barbé Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

2023

 

'Moon Juice', Waldburger Wouters, Brussels, BE

2022

 

'Works on Paper', Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

2022

 

'Berookt', Nationaal Tabaksmuseum, Wervik, Belgium

2021

 

'Het Oor', Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem, Belgium

2020

 

'Tussenhuids', Helmond, The Netherlands

2017

 

'You Can't', Yellow, Varese, Italy

Press