Kati Heck 2022

Kati Heck in conversation with Heidi Ballet

Tim Van Laere Books, 2022

29,95

Tim Van Laere Gallery presents Kati Heck’s fifth solo exhibition: Legende. In this exhibition, Heck shows a series of new paintings, drawings and furniture sculptures.
Belgian artist Heck is known for her lucid yet enigmatic paintings, in which realism is transformed from a representative category into a fluid process. The way Heck puts together her compositions remind us of the literary genre of the legend. Legends are stories that have been retold through generations, but can also be seen as deciphering tools or as something that can offer us a foothold. Every legend is based on a core of truth, but that truth has been distorted and exaggerated in a way that it has become difficult to confirm or deny the accuracy of the story. A play on reality we also find in the work of Kati Heck. Her compositions can branch out into multiple genres – where literature, history, art history, science and her own lived experiences come together to form indivisible units. On a first reading they seem to reveal and explain things, but when you move into the deeper layers of her works you end up in a maze, where each step takes you deeper into the riddles of Heck’s own quest. Mankind and the issues that shape our human life are always central to her work. She often borrows her subjects from her immediate environment, populating her paintings with her family, friends, neighbors and pets. Her works are reminiscent of the bars, dancers and actors of Otto Dix and George Grosz, but also refer to Jean-Michael Basquiat and the Old Masters. With her works, Heck synthesizes different styles, combining elements of expressionism and surrealism with social realism.

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ISBN: 9789464004175

94 pages, color illustratieons, 25,5 x 20,5 cm, hardcover, Dutch/English/French