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Jef Verheyen

Axel Vervoordt

Galerie Carrefour

• 0156 • Night and Day
1964-1965

© SABAM Belgium, 2024, Jan Liégeois on behalf of Axel Vervoordt Gallery
© SABAM Belgium, 2024, Jan Liégeois on behalf of Axel Vervoordt Gallery

Painting, 186 x 88 cm each, 194 x 192 cm with frame, diptyque / paravent.

Collection: Private Collection, France.

Verheyen was an adherent of dialectics, a form of reasoning that uses argument and counter-argument to arrive at insight. He philosophised, for example, about the empty and the full, black and white, dark and light, local and universal, day and night...

This screen represents his thought strategy. Verheyen compares the eternal rhythm of day and night to the 'breath of life'.