CURRENT & NEXT EXHIBITION
USA / Miami Basel / 03 – 08 Dec 2024 / Nicolas Auvray Gallery
BELGIUM / Spa / 01 – 31 December 2024 / Sublimity group Show / Art’n Pepper Gallery
BELGIUM / Spa / 16 – 17 May 2025 / Vénus Safari II Official Launch / Art’n Pepper Gallery
PAST EXHIBITIONS
BELGIUM / Brussels – Antwerp / 14 – 22 November / BLINK Press Days / Leonhard’s Gallery
BELGIUM / Spa / From 20 October 2024 / Échappée Automnale group Show / Art’n Pepper Gallery
BELGIUM / Brussels / 16 Sept – 13 Oct 2024 / Solo Show / InsideOut Gallery
FRANCE / Arles / 01 July – 15 September 2024 / Solo Show / Tristans Gallery
BELGIUM / Antwerp / July – Sept 2024 / Extended Show / Leonhard’s Gallery Marnix & Leopoldstraat
BELGIUM / Spa / 25 August 2024 / Art Frais / Art’n Pepper Gallery
USA / Aspen / Intersect Aspen Art Fair / 30 July – 03 August 2024 / Nicolas Auvray Gallery
USA / Hamptons Fine Art Fair / 09 – 14 July 2024 / Nicolas Auvray Gallery
FRANCE / Arles / 01 July – 15 September 2024 / Solo Show / Tristans Gallery
BELGIUM / Antwerp / 13 – 30 June / Solo Show / Leonhard’s Gallery
FRANCE / ST Tropez / 30 March – 21 April / Solo Show / Gallery Paul Janssen
BELGIUM / Knokke le Zoute / 24 March 2024 / Look Out Magazine Party / Vénus Safari / Atelier VO2Max
BELGIUM / Brussels / 14 – 17 March 2024 / Ltd Art Fair at the Boghossian Foundation / Inside-Out Gallery
USA / Miami / Biscayne Bay / 14- 18 February 2024 / Art Wynwood / Nicolas Auvray Galerie
USA / Palm Beach / 23 – 28 January 2024 / Art Palm Beach Contemporary / Booth 835 / Nicolas Auvray Galerie
FRANCE / Paris / 26 – 28 January 2024 / Art3f / Pink Gallery
USA / Miami / 05 – 10 December 2023 / Miami Art Basel-Context Booth A1 / Nicolas Auvray Galerie
BELGIUM / Namur / 11 – 19 November 2023 / Antica-Fine Art Fair / Leonhard’s Gallery
THE NETHERLANDS / Oisterwijk / 17 September – 22 October 2023 / Solo Show / Gallery Van Dun
BELGIUM / Spa / Sunday 24th September 2023 / Meet and Greet / Art’n Pepper Galerie
USA / New York / 20 – 24 September 2023 / AAF / Nicolas Auvray Galerie
GERMANY / Berlin – Timmendorfer Strand / 30 September – November 04 2023 / Solo Show / ArtBoxBerlin
A meeting between a painter, a model and the photographer…
Extensive, both in time and scope; ThePainters Project is an ongoing collection of collaborations with painters to whom Eric offers as a canvas some of the very best models he has enjoyed working with during his career.
For a number of these artists the project offers them a step in the dark, an escape into unknown territory. They must settle into a new environment with unfamiliar light, unusual shadows and highlights and a canvas that is not only three dimensional but alive, breathing and sentient. Movements and poses influence their strokes, they must discover, adapt and ultimately tame this canvas with their brush. Together, the body and the art become one to achieve the sublime.
To blend the often distinct viewpoints of different disciplines and work together; to mix various instruments, tools and angles is an uncommon, yet extremely rewarding and exciting approach, but also contrary to the eternal solitude of the artist, a commonly echoed mantra in the art sphere.
This unorthodox partnership gives birth to wonderful and often surprising creations. Magic succeeds when the ephemeral and volatile nature of paint on the human skin is forever captured through the lens and immortalised onto the image.
More than hundred meetings have already taken place with artists from the UK, Uruguay, Mauritius, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, the US, China, Venezuela, Russia and many other countries all across the globe.
A truly timeless and borderless artwork is born.
The project is permanently exhibited in galleries in Paris, New-York, Berlin, Antwerp, London, Honfleur, Le Touquet, St Tropez, Amsterdam, Reims, Oisterwijk, Mauritius, Ibiza, Spa, Vevey and Arles.