Soetkin Verslype Belgian, b. 1994
Overview
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“My paintings start from a love for the medium and the possibilities that come with it. I always knew that I wanted to be a painter and being an artist was what naturally came along with it. I'm not really trying to convey concepts or tell a story. I put my focus on the process of creating an image that’s not depending on a narrative. The attention lies on the visual aspect. I am always searching for potentially interesting compositions, colour combinations and refractions within my direct surroundings.”
Soetkin Verlsype is a Belgian artist currently based in Antwerp (BE). She gratuated in in visual arts at Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerp, Belgium.
The works of Soetkin Verslype arise from a love for the medium of painting and a search for intuition within the creative process. She is mainly inspired by everyday objects and compositions from her immediate environment. Often these are not subjects that scream for attention, but rather scenes that stimulate her visually because of their potential to be stylized.
The painting process is comparable to the construction of a mosaic, in which different abstract shapes are placed next to each other to form a recognizable image. The way in which Verslype paints these shapes enables her to play in a subtle way with the relationships between foreground and background, positive and negative forms, depth and focus and how these can function in relation to each other. In this way, interactions arise between forms that may in reality exist at different distances from each other, resulting in situations/paintings that make banal subjects look atypical and strange.
The color scheme seems to be following this line of thought. Her color palette invariably remains monochrome, for each work she determines whether it will look warm, cool or fresh. This choice of color is also completely separate from the image that Verslype originally saw. For Soetkin Verslype, the focus is on the process as well as the creation of an image that can function autonomously, separate from a story.
Recent solo exhibiton is A flower, A chair at Base Alpha Gallery, Antwerp (BE) in 2022. The artist also presented her work at Art Rotterdam 2021, booth Base Alpha gallery, in 2021. She was included in group exhibitions at Salon Si & La in Antwerp (BE) and SHOWHOUSE JAYJAY X HOT PAPER in 2020.
Works
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Soetkin VerslypeCHESS, 202172 x 90€ 2,650.00View more details -
Soetkin VerslypeÁRBOL DE PALMA , 201940 x 50€ 1,550.00View more details
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Soetkin VerslypePARKINGSPOT , 202049 x 57€ 1,750.00View more details
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Soetkin VerslypeAUTUMN , 202074 x 60€ 2,100.00View more details
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Soetkin VerslypeBIST, 202049 x 64€ 1,750.00View more details
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Soetkin VerslypeCHANGE TON STYLE , 201840 x 50€ 1,550.00View more details
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Soetkin VerslypeCOLONIA FINLANDESA 2 , 201930 x 40€ 1,300.00View more details
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Soetkin VerslypeCOMESTIBLES , 202040 x 50€ 1,550.00View more details
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Soetkin VerslypeCUEVAS DE TORO TORO , 201930 x 40 cm€ 1,300.00
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Soetkin VerslypeCUYABENO 2 , 202030 x 40€ 1,300.00View more details
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Soetkin VerslypeESTATUAS, 201930 x 40€ 1,300.00View more details
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Soetkin VerslypeOBJETOS DE PLÁSTICO , 202040 x 50€ 1,550.00View more details
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Soetkin VerslypeSILKE , 202030 x 40 cm€ 1,300.00View more details
Installation shots
Solow show a flower, a chair at Base Alpha Gallery, Antwerp (BE) 2022. Credit We Document Art.