CURRENT & NEXT EXHIBITION

FRANCE / St Tropez / 30 March – April 2024 / Solo Show / Galerie Paul Janssen

BELGIUM / Spa / 03 March – 07 April 2024 / Solo Show with French Sculptor Sylvie Mangaud / Art’n Pepper Galerie

BELGIUM / Liège / 01 February – 19 April / Private Exhibition @ Bank Degroof Petercam / Art’n Pepper Galerie

USA / New-York / 16 May – 30 June 2024 / Solo Show / Nicolas Auvray Galerie

BELGIUM / Antwerp / June 2024 / Solo Show / Leonhard’s Gallery

FRANCE / Arles / 01 July – 29 September / Solo Show / Tristans Gallery

BELGIUM / Brussels / 11 Oct – 08 Nov / Solo Show / Inside-Out Gallery

PAST

USA / Palm Beach / 20 – 24 March / Palm Beach Art Fair / Nicolas Auvray Gallery

BELGIUM / Knokke le Zoute / 24 March / Look Out Magazine Party / Vénus Safari / Atelier VO2Max

BELGIUM / Brussels / 14 – 17 March / Ltd Art Fair at the Boghossian Foundation / Inside-Out Gallery

USA / Miami / Biscayne Bay / 14- 18 February / 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.

This picture: Artist: 'STEPHANIE KRISTOFIC' JUNE 2011