nieuw idee

een kleine teaser voor wat er -misschien- komt the goodbye girl

something that will appear in the film

benvers

Géricault

sketched in pensils,
after one of my favorite portraits
'portret van een kleptomaan' or 'l'alliené' or 'le kleptomane' ca. 1822
by théodore géricault.

sketched while sitting on a bench, in front of the painting
in absolute awe

breaking the fourth wall

for your pleasure, a single frame from my upcoming shortfilm

bij axel vervoordt

gezicht

donker

lectures

Coming Tuesday 30 March, I have been invited to give a series of lectures about my student short film 'erzebet' at the cypresgallery in Leuven. 'Erszebet' was included in the Selection of works at this year's Kulturama art festival. My film caught some attention, and CJP invited me to give the lectures to an audience of young adults.

I am looking forward to it!

my brand new work-studio

i will be recording my new shortfilm in this beautifull chamber. Anyone curious about the recording of my oil-painted animated film, please, feel free to visit. anyone is welcome!
send me an email at robbevervaek@gmail.com if you wish to see.

the location of the studio is at ghent, in the minnemeers business center

this weekend in Leuven there is an arts festival, called Kulturama.
Erszebet is part of this city-wide exhibition. a limited edition dvd of the my graduationproject "erszebet" has been created for these purposes, for sale in the Cypresgalerie.

studies for my new shortfilm 'norman'

Denderleeuw

i haven't done much lately. i've been enjoying graduating, actually.
meeting friends i haven't had the chance to see in a long time. i took a
short vacation in my uncle's cabin in the woods. i tried to relax a little.

i seem to have succeeded. people tell me they've never seen me healthier.
i suppose obsession is a bit like being sick. you're absent all the time,
and the colour of your skin turns pale. you hardly ever come out, and you
can't sleep.

I would like to show you the result of a video-exhibition i recently did.
the film is called 'vreemdeling' or stranger. the subject of this exhibition
was a small old town. it was our job to 'preserve' it in a certain way.
this is my attempt to do so. i found Denderleeuw to be very claustrofobic,
and empty. as if this small town could dissapear at any time.
there was an enormous limitation in budget, so i worked with what i got.
i tried to handle this video-footage as if I were painting, as if the camera
was a paintbrush, and the cinemascreen was a canvas.

i would like to show you around there someday.

erszebet

i'm actually proud of this frame from my film,
hence the reason for posting an older work

my new filmproject is being reviewed by a commision since yesterday.
this commission will decide if i will be funded, the flemish governement (through the VAF flemisch filmhouse) will either grant me the necessairy money, or they won't

they practically decide if this project will be made, or not.

it's called 'norman', a story about obsession and angst, paranoia, beauty and horror.
nothing else is possible, but this time again, it will be made in oil-paint animation

here's a quick preview

de koer

here's something i painted quickly while working on my film, 'erszebet'. there was this amazing sunlight falling down on a parkinglot, through an emergency door, in my studio.
i have an exposition right now, in the departement where i graduated, and i rediscovered this oil-sketch

exhibition

zeker komen!

my ambition

i'll just tell everyone my ambition.
i've learned how to paint. and i think i've got the right idea.
i'm not the best yet. i'm not sure if i ever will be. but having the right idea and
fullfilling that idea in images is more important then being the best.

what i'm missing right now is the right incentive for viewers.
i need a decent 'story' for every single work i make.
being obsessed with paint is a part of this story, already,
'horror and beauty' is another part of it.

the third part is the most difficult one.
i'm trying to paint 'intimate'
in a way that everything you see, has a very close appeal to it.
even a pair of shoes could become something you would want to caress.

i have had my visual obsession with object for a long time. it seems almost
ridiculous i haven't tried to translate this yet. butt believe it, i have never been
selfsecure enought to try. i'm finally there, at long last.

the new film will be exaclty about that experience.
my paintings will be about intimacy, i will find a way to tell this 3fold story
in every frame i paint