JAN VANRIET

simone, blau-rot

Aquarell über Bleistift. 1980
Rechts unten signiert und datiert sowie links unten betitelt.
Verso zusätzlich betitelt.
Auf chamoisfarbenem Velin.
76,6 x 56 cm Blattgröße.

auf Wunsch gerahmt (kein gerahmeter Versand)

Provenienz:
Firmensammlung Hannover

simone, blue-red
Watercolor over pencil. 1980
Signed and dated lower right and titled lower left. Additionally titled on verso.
On creme wove paper.
76.6 x 56 cm sheet size.
framed on request (no framed shipping)
Provenance: Company collection Hanover

The painter Jan Vanriet was born in Antwerp on 21 february 1948.
In 1972, after his studies at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, he first exhibited at De Zwarte Panter Gallery.

His work is included in the collections of, for example, the Museum of Art in San Diego, the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla and the Hewlett Packard Corporation in Palo Alto. The Ministry of Dutch Culture published a new monography.
He was appointed Principal of Antwerp’s Hoboken Academy of Art.

After the Venice Biennale (1984) he was envited to participate in the Olympiad of Arts in Seoul. His monumental canvas compte a regler is now in the Museum of Contemporary Art there and in 1980 he was awarded the special prize at the Art Festival, together with John Chamberlain and Mimmo Rotella. In between he stayed twice in New York to work in Bernar Venet’s studio. Commissions for portraits were awarded by Harry Torczyner, the Belgian Parlement and the University of Leuven.

In the context of Antwerp 93 (European Cultural Capital), the Elzenveld Art Centre opened his new gallery areas with a large-scale exhibition of Vanriet’s recent work. This was not his oly contribution to this festival year. He is also responsible for ceiling paintings in the restored Bourla theatre.

Exhibitions in Dublin, Michigan, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Luxembourg.