Medium: Paintings /Sculptures (BE)
Lieve Goeminne
The artist is born in Blankenberge and has her atelier in Bruges(Belgium).Drawing and painting has always taken a central place in her live. She started as an autodidact with painting of landscapes and marines. After a year she decided to follow lessons at the Academy of Bruges where she painted models “anatomical painting”.
Her teachers were Mr Janssens and Robert Devriendt. Under the influence of the Academy and her predilection for the “Cobra-movement” she evolved to abstract painting. She followed courses in France and the Netherlands.
Under all this influences she developed to a very personal abstract form of art and by this way she became a polyvalent artist.
Lieve starts with a line of thought and when she paints the painting evolves to his form without losing its content.
The art of Lieve Goeminne situates between abstract and figurative the figures in her painting are connected with the relations between people.
This is emotional art of which strong vibrations emanate because they are made with strong emotions of the artist. She is convinced that there is a big emotional involvement between the artist, the painting and the observer.
The subject of her art is about the vulnerability, fragility of people.
The vulnerability of the body and the mind.
That is why she uses gauze in her paintings and then she puts the humans in the centre and lightening them with Indian yellow to emphasize the important of men in the society. She uses also concrete, sand, lead and gold-leaf.
Lieve Goeminne doesn’t want to be putted in one kind of art. She finds that painting, every kind, every style of painting is a way of living.
She is very self-willed, she knows what she wants and how she wants to express herself.
Lieve creates what lives in her instead of representing the reality. The unconscious of which she sources her inspiration is like a volcano in a very active faze, the paintings flow from it like a stream of lava.
The paintings are original, standing for themselves, are built powerful because the artist knows what she wants to make.
The paintings are built lightly, because the painting takes its form and its meaning coat after coat.
Lieve Goeminne: “ Starting from the matter I achieve to obtain expression of life in the form of a painting that’s not alone a structure of colours and lines, but where a spontaneous human sentiment is a victory on the matter and every aesthete conception.”
I let my thoughts take their own course and under the impulse of nearly the automatic act of painting I start to feel free. If I paint, I don’t criticize what I have done, that comes later. The suggestion that starts from the matter puts the creativity into work.
It is the meeting between the row materials that inspire me to the right forms and ideas. In the stream of a spontaneous feeling of life takes that what lives in me form.
Like Miro said in 1959 : “ I work like a gardener. Things grow slowly. I don’t discover my language of forms immediately. It takes time. Things are following their natural course. They grow, they mature.”
The artist: “ I don’t want to paint without meaning, but I want to get to the bottom of the theme to understand it from the inside and so process them in a composition of balance in form and colour in my own artistic way.”
The artist has to say something, for it is not his duty to control the form, but to adjust the form to the contents.”
If I work I feel free, I’m in balance and the first impulse leads me. Than all my energy goes to the painting.
She says about herself: ”Art is a confrontation, it is a duel between the own thoughts and the virgin surface. It is a feverish search of balance between form and colour, quiet and disquiet, silence and movement, violence and calmness.
My works don’t belong neither to the figurative neither to the abstract kind. I try to tread the middle way between these two extremes and I connect them together.
The result is as best as I can: a perfect reflection of my inner perception of life.”
Lieve Goeminne(°1959)
Born in Belgium
Professor English and Dutch
Decorative Arts School, Bruges
Groupexhibitions
1996 : Provinciale Wedstrijd Vermeylenfonds West-Vlaanderen 1° award
1996 : Prijs van het Landschap Michel Depypere
1996 : 10° Biënnale Teve-West “ Feestpaleis “ Oostende
1997: Kiezen voor kunst Knokke-Heist (1° award : Cosmos)
1997: Kiezen voor kunst Provinciale selectie Ten Bogaerdekapel Koksijde
(Publique prize : Cosmos)
1998: Feest- en Kultuurpaleis Oostende Oeuvre selectionné “Compositie”
1999: Europacollege – Brugge exposition Academie Brugge
Work selected of the jury “Europe”
1999: Kiezen voor kunst : Chateau de Zonnebeke ; work selected
“Earth, Wind and Fire."
2000: Kunstsalon 2000 Brugge
work selected: “Europe” en “Tears about you”
Exhibitions
1996 Galerie ‘t Oud Stadhuis Blankenberge
1997 Galerie Straffe Hendrik Brugge
1998: Galerie B Nantes (France) / Galerie AXA Brussels
1999 Galerie d’Annexe De Haan
2000 – 2001 Galerie Open Genève (Suisse)
2001 Galerie Straffe Hendrik Brugge
2002 Galerie Poort van Cyriel Buggenhout
2002 Galerie Raf Declercq Knokke -Zoute :
2002 Galerie P-art Noordstraat Gent :
2002 Galerie Natascha Knokke –Zoute
2003: Galerie Rubian Abraham Peter Budapest- (Bulgarie)
2003 Galerie Natascha Knokke –Zoute
2003 Galerie Urart Istanbul
2003 Galerie Tracé – Maastricht (The Netherlands)
2004 Galerie Natascha Knokke-Zoute
2004 Galerie Les Deux arts Brugge
2004 Galerie De Opsteker Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2005 Galerie Tracé –Maastricht
2005 Galerie De Kunstsalon, Hoorn (The Netherlands)
2005 Art Gallery Natascha , Knokke-Zoute (Belgium)
2005 Gallery Van Campen en Rochtus, Antwerp (Belgium)
2006 Gallery Agora Soho-Chelsea New York City
2006 Art Gallery Natascha Knokke-Zoute (Belgium)
2006 Gallery Van Campen en Rochtus Antwerp (Belgium)
2006 Gallery Agora New York City - Soha -
Chelsea
2007 Marine Gallery Zeebruges Belguim
Contempory Art Fair
Classics Kortrijk 2003
Lineart Gent 2003
Salons d’antique et d’art Luxembourg 2004
Foire de Luxembourg Luxembourg 2004
Lineart Gent 2004
Salon d’art et des Antiquaires de Luwembourg Luxembourg 2005
Antiekbeurs Hasselt Belgium 2005
Holland Art Fair Den Haag, The Netherlands 2005
Lineart, International Art Fair Gent, Belgium 2005
Salons des Antiquaires de Luxembourg Luxembourg 2006
Works in private collections :Belgium,Luxembourg,The Netherlands,France,Germany,Switserland, England,Mauritanië, America, Libanon,Japan
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