Charlie De Voet
"I think that you can only understand paintings by actually seeing them. Their truth is the paint." (Suzan Frecon)
'Missing Monochrome V'
2021
oil on canvas
120 x 110 cm
'A Painting As A Resting Place For The Gravedigger'
2021
oil paint, gauze, rope, steel, wood, canvas
variable dimensions
‘A Painting As A Resting Place For The Gravedigger’ is my contribution to the second edition of PASS, a scenic arts route along the villages of Huise, Mullem, Wannegem & Lede (BE). With this in-situ installation I anticipated to a strong recollection that I have of my sole experience as a gravedigger some 23 years ago on the exact same graveyard in Huise, in the summer of ‘98 when I was working as a student for the municipal green service. I can assure you, digging up a sealed off, non-degradable plastic body bag (as was apparently the case in those days) with a rotten corpse inside was quite a challenging experience for this young man’s soul and it left a lasting & vivid imprint in my memory. As a sign of respect for the people who do this as a daily job, I created a spatial painting as a (temporary) resting place for the gravedigger: a skyblue shelter in oil paint that was entirely scraped off a stretched canvas, with a canvas bed and pillows underneath it. Two ‘Salami Sandwich Paintings’ (oil paint, on a wood & canvas 'sandwich') were placed onto the bed, as a reference to Saint Anthony Abbot, the patron saint of the gravediggers, a hermit who spend most of his life fasting in solitary confinement in a cave in the desert and who is often depicted with a pig alongside his feet. The black ‘scent tree’ in oil paint hanging inside the shelter refers to my strongest recollection of this experience: the overall penetrating stench of sheer Death that came out of the grave. And finally, the work is left out in the open, unprotected, and will probably suffer severely from the outside weather conditions. After all, is there a better way to pinpoint such a thing like vanitas? (cdv)
'Curtained Painting'
2021
oil paint, on wood & canvas frame
31 x 26 cm
'Self-Portrait As A Drying Clothesline (Naked)'
2021
oil, gauze, canvas, rope, clothespins
variable dimensions
'Shallow Painting'
2021
oil on canvas
240 x 315 cm
'Nine Ways Of Turning A Painting'
2021
oil, aluminum, canvas, wood
each approx. 30,5 x 20,5 x 8 cm
edition of 9
(in private collection)
'Victorious Painting'
2021
oil paint on steel wire on wood & canvas base
55 x 20 x 20 cm
(in private collection)
'Weary Painting, Canvas Room IV'
2021
oil on canvas
36 x 34 cm
(in private collection)
'Hail Painting'
2021
oil on canvas on wood
d.120 cm
'Weary Painting, Canvas Room III'
2021
oil on canvas
38 x 33 cm
(in private collection)
'Painting Of A Birdhouse Painting'
2021
oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
'Weary Painting, Canvas Room II'
2021
oil on canvas
36 x 31 cm
(in private collection)
'Missing Monochrome IV'
2021
oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
'Weary Painting,Canvas Room'
2021
oil on canvas
37 x 32 cm
(in private collection)
'Missing Monochrome III'
2021
oil on canvas
77 x 62 cm
'Curved Painting'
2021
oil on canvas on wood
122 x 195 x 14 cm
'Missing Monochrome II'
2021
oil on canvas
93 x 58 cm
'Slit Box Painting (Spatialized Landscape)'
2021
oil, canvas, wood, steel
50,5 x 20,5 x 13 cm
'Missing Monochrome'
2021
oil on canvas
70 x 60 cm
'Peeling Painting'
2021
oil, canvas, wood, steel
50,5 x 40,5 x 10 cm
'O Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
175 x 165 cm
(in private collection)
'Thong Painting'
2020
oil, oil & pencil on canvas
44 x 39 cm
'Instant Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
200 x 180 cm
'Bent Painting II'
2020
oil, canvas, wood, steel
48 x 40 x 19 cm
'Fractured Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
228 x 204 cm
'Landscape With Confined Shadows'
2020
oil paint, wood & canvas frame
56,5 x 34 x 5,5 cm
'Snapshot Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
(in private collection)
'Shelter Painting'
2020
oil paint, steel, rope, wood, canvas
80 x 80 x 40 cm
'Hello Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
140 x 300 cm
'Drying Painting'
2020
oil paint, thread, clothespins, wood, canvas
83 x 73 x 11,5 cm
'Bent Painting'
2020
oil paint, steel, canvas, wood
50 x 40 x 17 cm
'Cloth Landscape'
2020
oil paint, canvas, on wood & steel mounting system
55 x 60 x 17 cm
'Painting For Vernissages'
2020
worn longsleeve shirt with canvas collar, oil paint tie, on clothes hanger
variable dimensions
'Bunker Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm
(in private collection)
'Singular Painting With Absent Dyptich'
2020
oil on canvas
62 x 93 cm
(in private collection)
'Skinned Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm
(in private collection)
'Skin Painting'
2020
oil paint, gauze
variable dimensions
(in private collection)
'A Painting To Make You Fail Better'
2020
oil on canvas
190 x 210 cm
(in private collection)
'Hush Now Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
230 x 190 cm
(in private collection)
'Salami Sandwich Painting'
2020
oil paint, canvas on wood
23 x 23 x 2 cm
'Tidal Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
250 x 200 cm
(in private collection)
'Monument For Roadkill'
2020
offset on Hahnemühle, glued on alu-dibond, oak wooden frame
29 x 22 cm
edition of 9 + 1 AP
'A Painting Without The Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
80 x 70 cm
(in private collection)
'Restricted Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
130 x 110 cm
'Hole Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
90 x 70 cm
(in private collection)
'A Painting As A Canopy For The Painting'
2020
oil on canvas, steel bracket
60 x 50 x 23 cm
(in private collection)
'Slow Painting'
2017-2020
oil on canvas
190 x 140 cm
(in private collection)
'A Painting For Quarantined Places'
2020
oil on canvas
120 x 90 cm
'Of Course, It's A Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
250 x 175 cm
(in private collection)
'Amongst, A Painting'
2020
oil on canvas
150 x 200 cm
(in private collection)
'Ball Painting'
2020
oil paint, epoxy, canvas, wood
14 x 14 x 16 cm
(in private collection)
'Cheese Sandwich Painting'
2020
oil paint, canvas, wood
15 x 20 x 2,5 cm
(in private collection)
'Monochrome Plant Painting'
2020
oil paint, steel wire, canvas, wood
45 x 35 x 55 cm
'A Painting Can Never Be A Multiple'
2020
oil on wood
20 x 20 cm
edition of 9, each unique
(500€, 4 more copies available)
'A Painting As A Disguise For Self-Portrait As A Jester/Monster'
2019
mask made of oil paint, thread, tinklers, on mannequin head on steel stand
variable dimensions
'Weary Painting VI'
2019
oil on canvas
50 x 45 cm
'Steady Painting'
2019
oil on canvas
160 x 130 cm
(in private collection)
'Weary Painting V'
2019
oil on canvas
40 x 35 cm
(in private collection)
'Weary Painting IV'
2019
oil on canvas
39 x 34 cm
'Landscape With Fontana Sunrise'
2019
oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
(in private collection)
'Weary Painting III'
2019
oil on canvas
27 x 25 cm
(in private collection)
'Flat Painting'
2018-2019
oil on canvas
d.141 cm
(in private collection)
'Weary Painting II'
2019
oil on canvas
35 x 42 cm
(in private collection)
'Split Painting II'
2019
oil on canvas
200 x 200 cm
(in private collection)
'Weary Painting I'
2019
oil on canvas
35 x 30 cm
(in private collection)
'Dear Painting'
2019
oil on canvas
250 x 175 cm
(in private collection)
'Cloth Painting'
2019
sheet of oil paint, steel & wooden mounting system
approx. 40 x 45 x 5 cm
(in private collection)
'The Missing Painting'
2019
oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
(in private collection)
'Staged Painting (Study)'
2019
sheet of oil paint, oil on canvas
variable dimensions
'Spatial Painting (Study)'
2019
sheet of oil paint, oil paint on canvas
variable dimensions
'Dead Wall Painting (Night Time)'
2019
oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
(in private collection)
'Dead Wall Painting (Day Time)'
2019
oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
(in private collection)
'A Painting As A Disguise For Self-Portrait'
2019 (First version, modified later into 'A Painting As A Disguise For Self-Portrait As A Monster / Jester')
mask made of a sheet of oil paint and thread
variable dimensions
> see video
'Clouded Painting'
2019
oil on canvas
160 x 175 cm
(in private collection)
'A Painting As A Mirror For Self-Portrait IV'
2019
oil on wood
appr. 55 x 45 cm
(in private collection)
'Composition With Falling Paintings II'
2019
oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm
'Composition With Falling Paintings I'
2019
oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm
'Landscape With Inner Space'
2019
oil on canvas
164 x 106 cm
(in private collection)
'Echo Painting'
2019
oil on wood
45 x 40 cm
(in private collection)
'Dead Painting'
2019
oil on canvas
160 x 175 cm
(in private collection)
'Shadow With Still Life'
2019
oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm
(in private collection)
'Painting For Open Spaces'
2019
oil on canvas
55 x 45 cm
(in private collection)
'Split Painting'
2019
oil on canvas
200 x 300 cm
(in private collection)
'A Painting As A Disguise For Self-Portrait (Study)'
2019
offset on Hahnemühle, glued on alu-dibond, oak wooden frame
edition of 9 + 1 AP
28 x 21 cm
(275€, 1 copy still available)
'Motion Study'
2019
oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
(in private collection)
'Peeky Painting'
2019
oil on canvas
136 x 106 cm
(in private collection)
'Deep Painting'
2019
oil on canvas
160 x 190 cm
(in private collection)
'Confined Landscape with Twofold View Point'
2018
oil on canvas
110 x 150 cm
(in private collection)
'Painting for Dull Days'
2018
oil on canvas
140 x 110 cm
(in private collection)
'Falling Painting II'
2018
oil on canvas
45 x 40 cm
(in private collection)
'Falling Painting I'
2018
oil on canvas
30 x 25 cm
(in private collection)
'The Space Between Our Saviors'
2018
oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm
(in Liedts-Meesen collection)
'Cocoon Painting (Sheltered visions from the sideline)'
2018
oil on canvas
130 x 100 cm
'Exit for Fake Landscapes'
2018
oil on canvas
50 x 70 cm
(in private collection)
'The Colours of My Air Castle'
2018
oil paint on steel bar
83 x 60 cm
It took me several tens, or maybe even hundreds of hours of maddening concentration and endurance to make this piece, which consists of a sheet of pure oil paint hanging on a steel bar. Yesterday evening (sept. 6th 2018) I finally managed to finish the damn thing. Then, when I hung it on the wall for the first time to look at the result, I was deeply moved in a very particular, personal way: I did it, I made a painting without a canvas, a message without a carrier, so to speak. A brittle banner, as transient as all of my personal air castles! As I was taking some quick snapshots of it, all of a sudden the sheet started to rip. And that was the end of it - nearly, because I somehow, in a miraculous way, managed to catch it just in time and to lay it down pretty much as a whole. I hurriedly improvised to restore the rips as good as I could and now, I have to let it dry while laying down. I don't know if the thing will ever be able to be hung up again. Maybe that was really just the end of it. Sooo much effort, for a result that lasted for like 10 minutes... Oh well, it was worth it. After all, air castles are not meant to last forever. Even if they do. (CDV)
(The piece was eventually successfully completed and is now in my own little private collection. cdv)
'Painting for Confined Spaces (See In Window)'
2018
oil on canvas
30 x 24 cm
(in private collection)
‘Sunrise As A Weary Blanket For The Night
(A Study in Oil Transplantation)’
2018
oil on canvas
24 x 18 cm (2x)
(in private collection)
'Painting as Billboard Substitute'
2018
oil on canvas
150 x 210 cm
(in private collection)
'Painting (for Pink Walls) Painting'
2018
oil on canvas
75 x 80 cm
(in private collection)
'Little Flemish Pocket Window Painting'
2018
oil on canvas
30 x 24 cm
(in private collection)
'Nocturnal Landscape with Monolithic Sentiment'
2018
oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
(in private collection)
'Interior Composition with Excessive Blues'
2018
oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
(in private collection)
'Lesser Painting (On the Nature of Brush & Paint)'
2018
oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
'Landscape with International Intervention'
2018
oil on canvas
60 x 40 cm
(in private collection)
'Paint Matter Painting'
2018
oil, on aluminium foil, on canvas
60 x 50 cm
(in private collection)
'Excessive Painting (Complementary Motives)'
2018
oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
'Dense Painting II'
2018
oil on canvas
90 x 60 cm
'Dense Painting'
2018
oil on canvas
75 x 55 cm
'Very Painting'
2017
oil on canvas
180 x 140 cm
(in private collection)
'A Painting as a Mirror for Self Portrait III'
2017
oil on canvas
d 80 cm
(in private collection)
'A Painting as a Mirror for Self Portrait II'
2017
oil on wood
45 x 36 cm
(in private collection)
'A Painting as a Mirror for Self Portrait'
2017
oil on canvas
d 50 cm
(in private collection)
'A Sign for Time III'
2017
oil on canvas
d 183 cm
(in private collection)
Installation view with 'Painting For Chapels'
2017
installation for the biennial art route Kunst&Zwalm
'Painting For Chapels'
2017
oil on canvas
325 x 170 cm
'A Larger Sign for Time'
2017
oil on canvas
d 240 cm
(in private collection)
'There's something punk about a saturated world'
2017
oil on canvas
100 x 60 cm
'A Sign for Time'
2017
oil on canvas
56,5 x 56,5 cm
(in private collection)
'Maybe Painting'
2017
oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
(in private collection)
'Slow colours don't come in wrapping paper II'
2017
oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
(in private collection)
'Approaching Pop (or Plop)'
2017
oil on canvas
30 x 25 cm
(in private collection)
'Slow Colours don't come in Wrapping Paper'
2017
oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
(in private collection)
'Approaching Places'
2017
oil on canvas
220 x 100 cm
(in private collection)
'All we want is everything'
2015-17
oil, pen & canvas on canvas
90 x 150 cm
(in private collection)