bewtie
September 15 — October 28, 2017
New York: 24th Street
Gladstone is pleased to present bewtie, an exhibition of new paintings by Belgian artist Walter Swennen. The artist’s second show with the gallery expands Swennen’s deeply personal approach to the medium and practice of painting. During his acclaimed, nearly 40-year career, Swennen has worked without one signature style to categorize his artistic oeuvre. Rather, he employs his background in philosophy, poetry and psychoanalysis to create works that are defined by the absence of a single perspective or framework.
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About
Walter Swennen (b. 1946, Brussels) lives and works in Brussels. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at international institutions including Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterless, Belgium; Kunstmuseum Den Hague, Netherlands; La Triennale di Milano, Italy (2018); Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2015); WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (2013); Culturgest Lisbon (2013); Kunstverein Freiburg (2012); MuKHA Antwerp, Belgium (1994); and Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1994). Swennen has also been included in notable group exhibitions including: “Atopolis, Manège de Sury,” Mons (2015); “The Importance of Being...,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana (2015); “Idiolect,” Arentshuis, Bruges (2009); “La Belgique Visionnaire/Visionair België,” curated by Harald Szeemann, Palais des Beaux-Arts/Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels (2005); “Voir en Peinture,” FRAC Ile de France/Le Plateau, Paris (2003); “La Consolation,” Centre d’Art National Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble (1999); and “Trouble Spot. Painting,” MuKHA Antwerp (1999).
