A Conversation between Carole Vanderlinden and Philippe Van Cauteren
Carole Vanderlinden (b. 1973, Brussels) paints improvisational works that are at once elemental—form, line, gesture—and dense with spectral layers. Working since the mid-1990s, she pares the world around her down to its essentials: shelter, sustenance, nature. In her canvases and works on paper, she is unhampered by the constraints of a single style, instead reacting to the provocations of each composition and the possibilities of her medium. Abstraction and figuration coalesce, while collage, drawing, and planes of thick, hand-mixed oil paint harmonize. Though they are informed by myriad art-historical movements, particularly the Dutch masters, the European avant-garde (especially Dada), folk art, and the aleatory strategies of John Cage, her paintings nimbly elude the trappings of categorization, equally animated by music, quotidian life, and philosophy. Vanderlinden likens her painting practice to a shield that protects her from, and helps her grapple with, the world around her. Vanderlinden lives in Brussels.
Philippe Van Cauteren is the artistic director of S.M.A.K. (Museum for Contemporary Art) in Ghent, Belgium
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Carole Vanderlinden
A slipping glance
Book launch and signing
Saturday, November 2, 5–7 pm
Karma Bookstore
136 East 3rd Street
New York
Join us for a launch and signing of Carole Vanderlinden: A slipping glance, published by Karma.
Read more and register here
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