GEERT VANDERPLANCKE
BORN IN NIEUWPOORT (BELGIUM) ON 12/12/1963 SCULPTOR, GRAPHIC ARTIST,LIGHT DESIGNER AND INTERIOR DESIGNER. FOLOWD STUDY’S AT THE WESTHOEK-ACADEMIE AT KOKSIJDE. HAD ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO AND WORK ABROAD ON A STUDY BURSARIE TO POLAND.
GEERT VANDERPLANCKE IS A SCULPTOR WHO IS ALSO A LIGHTING DESIGNER AND DOES INTERIOR DESIGNING. SCULPTING IS FOR ME THE CONQUERING OF SPACE WITHOUT LOSING THE SPIRITUAL CONTENTS OF EACH VOLUME OUT OF LIGHT.MY TOTEM-LIKE SCULPTURES RISE LIKE GHOSTS FROM THE INGNEOUS GROUND AND EVOKE, BY THE MATERIAL THAT IS USED,BY THE VERTICAL STRUCTURES AND THE EXOTIC MOTIVES,ASSOCIATIONS XITH THE “PRIMITIVE”ART OF BLACK AFRICA. I’M ALSO FASINATED BY THE NORTH SEA.
SEVERAL EXHIBITIONS IN BELGIUM AND FOREING COUNTRY’S: EXHIBITIONS:1988-BRUGGE,VEURNE,OOSTENDE,NIEUWPOORT 1989-NIEUWPOORT 1990-KOKSIJDE,NIEUWPOORT,OOSTDUINKERKE 1991-AALTER,KOKSIJDE,OUDENBURG,NIEUWPOORT 1992-KOKSIJDE 1993-KOKSIJDE 1994-VEURNE 1995- HEENVLIET (NETHERLANDS) ,NIEUWPOORT,WOUMEN 1996- HEENVLIET (NETHERLANDS) 1997- LISSEWEGE 1998- LISSEWEGE 1999- LISSEWEGE,LICHTAART,EDINGBURG (SCOTLAND) 2000- LICHTAART,OEREN 2001- VEURNE,DE PANNE,WANZE,BRUGGE,BRUSSEL,LISSEWEGE 2002- DE PANNE,VEURNE 2003-VEURNE 2004- VEURNE,MIDDELKERKE,
E. VERHAERENLAAN,13 8670 KOKSIJDE (BELGIUM) PHONE: 0032 (0)58 240 228 MOBILE:0032 (0) 496 97 31 86
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