I would put Bob Verschueren about number 4 on my list of favorite land artists. Hes been going a long time, but his work is always fresh and pushing barriers each time I peek into his sculptures. Bob Verschueren is a self-taught visual artist who was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1945. He started his artistic career at the end of the 1960s in the field of painting. In 1978, he moved in the direction of land art by creating “Wind Paintings”, natural pigments spread by the wind in the landscape and “Light Paintings”, a reflection on nature confronted by light. As from the 1980s, he only used natural materials, and in particular plants, to create his works of art. Since then, he has created more than 250 installations in Europe and elsewhere. In 2009, his “Improbable Gardens” took over the Grounds of the Château de Seneffe in Belgium, with ten or so different works. His “Destinies” exhibition, which he presented until November 2009 at the Lucien Schweitzer Art Gallery in Luxembourg, followed on from another presentation of his work in Finland.For each of his works, Bob Verschueren makes sure that the architecture of the place, nature and the materials chosen suit each other perfectly.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:23:53 +0000