Ilse D'Hollander

Parallel to the exhibition of Ugo Rondinone. thank you silence, M – Museum Leuven is presenting the work of the belgian artist Ilse D’Hollander (Sint-Niklaas, 1968-1997). 

In only a brief period, between 1989 and 1997, D’Hollander created an extensive oeuvre of paintings and drawings. Since her sudden death, her work has rarely been exhibited. With about forty drawing and paintings, M is now presenting a broader view of her multifaceted career. From June 27 till Octobre 20, 2013.

The paintings of Ilse D’Hollander result from a personal search for the medium of painting. Via meticulous observation of her immediate environment, D’Hollander created compositions of coloured surfaces and lines, vibrating forms and transparent overpainting. Visual elements from the landscape, such as a branch, house, or road, are transformed into more abstract visuallanguage that vacillates between the recognisable, suggestive, determined and more poetic.

Some of her works may be linked to painters like Paul Cézanne, René Daniels or Raoul De Keyser.

A monograph discussing her life and works will be published to accompany the exhibition.