Eloquent Formalism celebrates the remarkable legacy of Jan and Lieve Andries-Vanlouwe and the contemporary art collection they passionately assembled. This beautifully curated publication offers an intimate look at a selection of important post-war and contemporary artworks, reflecting the couple’s deep appreciation for art’s capacity to transcend boundaries and inspire new ways of seeing.

With a focus on the purity of form, color, and texture, the book highlights works by notable ar...

As attested by her inclusion in several important survey exhibitions, including The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain at the Wende Museum, Los Angeles (2019–20), Drozdik is one of the most significant Eastern European women artists working in experimental performance and photography before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Following her move to New York, she worked in close relation to feminist, critical and experimental literary practices associated with New York...

Since the mid-nineties, Johan De Wilde (°1964, BE) has been

making pencil drawings that can be considered as the work of

a ‘human printer’, like man created computers in his mind.

The artworks are meticulous built as paintings, layer after layer

of horizontal and vertical lines, with a suggestion of shapes or

numbers interwoven. De Wilde draws the canvas he paints on

and mostly uses the same formats: A6, A4, A2, because he wants

the drawings to be as universal as possible and thes...

Jan De Vliegher’s (°1964, BE) paintings are a meeting of Abstract Expressionism and Impressionistic joie de vivre, joie de peindre pur sang. Since his debut in 1998 De Vliegher has been creating large-scale paintings based on his impressions of daily life. He finds beauty in the small such as paddling beachgoers and porcelain show-off crockery, but also in the large and luxurious such as the halls of Versailles and Venetian terraces. De Vliegher paints in series that have a fast, almost ob...