Sunday 15 February opens Marc Vanderleenen's 7th exhibition at our gallery on the first floor entitled ‘ INHABITENCE’ with a series of ‘singeries paintings’. Pieter Van der Borcht introduced the singerie theme around 1575. Jean Baptiste Chardin adapted the theme with his painting ‘ The Monkey Painter’ ( 1739) . Marc Vanderleenen ‘s singeries are a copy of this painting. " Vanderleenen succeeded in giving his colour tonality a quite specific extremely individual signature that looks almost patented and consists a mixture of brown-grey, ocher-like tints. By using a lot of yellow - according to the psychological colour spectrum it is one of the most hysterical colours Vanderleenen achieves a highly unique colour signature, as a result of which his work is immediately recognisable and which serves as an overarching flag - or stylistic strategy - that covers a variety of thematic and emotional content. (Thibaut Verhoeven in: Fifty shades of the most self-relativising grey - Aboutness - Marc Vanderleenen). Marc Vanderleenen is born in Mechelen, 1952. He lives and works in Antwerp.

Artists: Marc Vanderleenen