Hans Op de Beeck
It’s always about modulating banality in an unusual way. It’s how I try and say something about the way we stage life, subdue and humanize our surroundings, and the awkward manner in which we deal with each other and our mortality.
Hans Op de Beeck via hildevancanneyt.blogspot.com, 2012
Hans Op de Beeck (1969, Belgium) produces large installations, sculptures, films, drawings, paintings, photographs and texts. His work is a reflection on our complex society and the universal questions of meaning and mortality that resonate within it. He regards man as a being who stages the world around him in a tragi-comic way. Above all, Op de Beeck is keen to stimulate the viewers’ senses, and invite them to really experience the image. He seeks to create a form of visual fiction that delivers a moment of wonder, silence and introspection.
