PAUL GEES

Overview
PAUL GEES
Born 1949, Aalst, Belgium
Lives and works in Schoonaarde, Belgium
Represented by Valerie Traan Gallery, Antwerp (BE)

Since the 1980s, the installations of Paul Gees (Belgium) have been highly rated in the Belgian art world. The relationship between nature and culture is central to his work. A duality which he distinguishes in sophisticated large and small installations in which balance and tension are the main determining factors. The materials he uses to create this effect are transformed from their original structural and physical features. Steal obtains a constructive and space-descriptive meaning, wood is employed as a natural and dynamic component, stone represents weight as well as an unpredictable entity.


De installaties van Paul Gees (BE) zijn sinds de jaren 1980 een vaste waarde in de Belgische kunstwereld. Centraal in zijn werk staat de relatie natuur-cultuur, een dualiteit die hij onderzoekt in uitgekiende kleine en grote assemblages waarin evenwicht en spanning bepalende factoren zijn. De materialen die hij daarvoor gebruikt, worden getransformeerd vanuit hun structurele en fysische kwaliteiten. Staal krijgt een constructieve en ruimte-omschrijvende betekenis, hout vormt een natuurlijke en dynamische component, steen vertegenwoordigt zowel gewicht als het inhoudelijk onberekenbare.
Biography
PAUL GEES
www.valerietraan.be/cv-paul-gees
 

1992-2009 Teacher "Expression and mixed media", Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven / Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent.

1980-1992 Teacher Vormstudie (study of shapes) Sint-Lukas Higher Institute, Interior and Construction

1969-1973 Sint-Lukas, Brussels - Interior Design Studies

Active as a visual artist since 1975

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_solo  exhibitions

 

2022

In conversation, Hilde Vandaele gallery, Watou

Flat sculptures, Loom gallery, Milan (IT)

YELLOW IS THE COLOUR OF THE DAY IN THE MORNING... WHEN WE RISE, Galerie van den Berge, Goes (NL)

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2019 

Overview #1. Sculptures, pictures and drawings, Loom Gallery, Milan (IT)

Overview #2,  Fondazione Kenta and Loom Gallery, Milan (IT)

Paul Gees 12.12 (with book presentation), valerie_traan gallery, Antwerp

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2018 

Under pressure ’18. Sculptures and drawings, valerie_traan gallery, Antwerp

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2017         

Under Pressure. Sculptures, wall objects and drawings. Loom Gallery, Milan (IT)

Stille trillingen. Sculptures, installation and drawings. Nevens Garage, Ninove

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2016

Connected-Disconnected. Sculptures and wall objects. De Ziener gallery, Asse

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2015 

Plus loin que les frontières with Paul Gees and Wim De Pauw. Tom Van Den Berge gallery, Goes (NL)      

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2014         

Geschraagde horizonten. Loods 12 with Dave Meijer (NL), Wetteren

Family Encounters. Sculptures, drawings and paintings of Paul and Ibrich Gees.  Jan Colle gallery, Ghent

Tweede Natuur, Ibrich and Paul Gees. Lia Schelkens, Schilde, 

 Kruisende ritmes with Stijn Kriele (NL). Cathy De Vos gallery, Aalst

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2013

In the offices of Société Generale, Aalst

Private Banking in collaboration with Netwerk, Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst.

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2012         

Experimental Intermedia, Out of frame, vitrine project. Ghent

Recent works, Van Den Berge gallery with Raf Thys, Goes (NL)

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2011         

Collapsing the arches. Wall objects. Van Den Berge gallery, met Mil Ceulemans, Goes (NL)     

Voorhangsels. Wall objects and drawings. De Ziener gallery, Asse

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2010 
Sculptures. Sculptures, installation and drawings. Elimart, Kapellen

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2009 
Sculptures, models and drawings, at de Vrienden van Hugo, Hansbeke

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2008  
Muurbeelden. Van den Berge gallery with Marinus Van Dijke, Goes (NL)

 

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