9 plant-based installations by the internationally renowned artist Bob Verschueren enter a dialogue with the architecture of centuries-old buildings. The plastic artist who focuses on Nature Art, questions himself about the irreversibility of time with nature as artistic material. His poetic compositions echo the spirit of the site.
A dialogue between nature and architecture. Each installation arises from connections with some architectural peculiarity of ancient buildings: a pointed arch, a keystone and its ribs, a column... or with the functions of the buildings and the life of the monks: spiritual upliftment, autarky, community life … Each work echoes certain Romanesque or Gothic structural elements of the abbey.
The essence of the plants. Incidentally, it is in and through nature and in particular in plants that the Belgian artist Bob Verschueren finds his inspiration. In his work he is driven by the desire to examine each plant closely, to understand what distinguishes it from others, what makes it unique and to extract the elemental forms that structure the plant. He likes to believe that the foundations of any installation are already engraved in the plants waiting for his gaze to find them and for his hands to take them out and reveal them.
Abbey of Villers-la-Ville, Rue de l'Abbaye 55 1495 Villers-la-Ville Abbey of Villers-la-Ville9 plant-based installations by the internationally renowned artist Bob Verschueren enter a dialogue with the architecture of centuries-old buildings. The plastic artist who focuses on Nature Art, questions himself about the irreversibility of time with nature as artistic material. His poetic compositions echo the spirit of the site.
A dialogue between nature and architecture. Each installation arises from connections with some architectural peculiarity of ancient buildings: a pointed arch, a keystone and its ribs, a column… or with the functions of the buildings and the life of the monks: spiritual upliftment, autarky, community life … Each work echoes certain Romanesque or Gothic structural elements of the abbey.
The essence of the plants. Incidentally, it is in and through nature and in particular in plants that the Belgian artist Bob Verschueren finds his inspiration. In his work he is driven by the desire to examine each plant closely, to understand what distinguishes it from others, what makes it unique and to extract the elemental forms that structure the plant. He likes to believe that the foundations of any installation are already engraved in the plants waiting for his gaze to find them and for his hands to take them out and reveal them.
