GILBERT  DECOCK
ROGER  GREISCH
PAUL  SCHROBILTGEN

Three poetic abstract artists

February 3 - March 11  2017

    

The Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of three well known Belgian abstract artists : Gilbert Decock ( 1928-2007 ), Roger Greisch
( 1917-1999 ) and Paul Schrobiltgen ( 1923 - 1980 ). Their abstract compositions  evoke pure poetry.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Gilbert Decock Knokke 1928 - 2007

Gilbert Decock

SEMELE 1999 Oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm

Roger Greisch Arlon 1917 - Bütgenbach 1999

Roger Greisch Triangles 1990 Oil on canvas 120 x 120 cm

Roger Greisch Polygones 1986 Oil on canvas 120 x 120 cm

Roger Greisch Linéaire bleue 1988 Oil on canvas

Paul Schrobiltgen

Schrobiltgen

Schrobiltgen Abstract composition 1961 Oil on canvas

Schrobiltgen, Composition 1960's Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm

Gilbert Decock was born in Knokke at the Belgian coast in 1928. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Bruges. Since the end of the 1950's the artist painted elementary forms such as circles, squares and triangles which are dialoguing on his canvases. His paintings and sculptures can be qualified as minimalist, ascetic, austere, symbolic, meditative and spiritual. In 1965 Decock became a founding member of the group "D 4" together with E. Bergen, V. Noël and M. Verdren. In 1967 Jo Delahaut joined the group whose name was changed into "Geoform". Decock executed several monumental projects in his long career for Distrigas, the Knokke Casino and the Metro station "Arts-Loi" in Brussels.
A fine monography about the artist by Dr Serge Goyens de Heusch was published by Lannoo ( Tielt, Belgium ) in 1995.

The abstract paintings of Roger Greisch are obviously very poetic. Indeed, they are by no means cold geometrical abstractions. The “good vibrations” emanating from the web of geometric lines leave spectators dreaming. The contours do not form any brutal ruptures between two planes of rectangles or circles. Without really blending the colors, the artist manages to soften the contrast between two surfaces, creating hereby a harmonious and sober composition. Read more about Roger Greisch.

In 2007 Group 2 Gallery organized a solo show "The pictural poetry of Paul Schrobiltgen". The artist, born near Arlon in 1923, studied at the Academy of his native city, where he met Roger Greisch. In the 1950's Schrobiltgen moved to Brussels where he exhibited at Galerie Vendôme in 1962 and where he met Tytgat and Oscar Jespers. In Paris he discovered the art of Serge Poliakoff and Nicolas de Staël, who would influence his works. From the 1970's until his death in 1980 Schrobiltgen exhibited regularly at the famous Galerie Armorial of Serge Goyens de Heusch at the Grand Sablon in Brussels.  A fine monography by Mr Goyens de Heusch was published in 1991.
Previous exhibition : From Rubens to Michaux, the poetry of black & white    Read more

 

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