For his fifth solo exhibition at Annie Gentils Gallery, Herman Van Ingelgem returns to painting, focusing on the still life.
He examines how trivial, seemingly inconspicuous objects and images with which we surround ourselves—whether consciously or unconsciously—reflect political, cultural, and social structures that shape and impart meaning to our daily lives.
The title alludes to a painting by the Austrian artist Franz von Defregger.
Herman Van Ingelgem rediscovered the image—a gathering of three men and two women in a café—on a beer mug. Both the mug bearing this image and the image itself recur throughout the paintings that will be on display."

Artists: Herman Van Ingelgem