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Johan De Wit

Form and color are the starting points of Johan De Wit's (°1960, BE) varied oeuvre, which largely consists of sculptures, videos and painterly objects.

His works evoke all kinds of associations, such as memories of childhood, but also futility and melancholy.

In an atmosphere of poetic stillness, the artist combines his love of aesthetic objects with everyday life: from a pot, a table and a ladder to more abstract objects - sometimes even with religious or archaeological connotations - like a disc or a triptych.

De Wit draws inspiration from the painting of the Flemish Primitives and the Flemish and Dutch masters of the Golden Age, but there are also clear echoes of the work of Giorgio Morandi, for example. In both the still lifes and landscapes of the old masters, De Wit recognizes the restless emptiness but also the stylization he seeks in his own work. This manifests itself in a search for materiality, textures and color. With De Wit, everything seems to be in constant motion, like life itself.

For his most recent series of objects, a model in paper forms the basis, reinforced with resin and marble powder on the inside and outside. As it dries, De Wit manipulates the model to create folds and dents. He then finishes it with paint in different shades of color, finally sanding back the surface. This results in hiding and bringing back out the dents and folds of the three-dimensional form. The light caught and reflected in this emphasizes the rich layers of the surface.


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