JCJ Vanderheyden
When I’m painting, I seem to have an echo, a reflection. I see myself painting. It simply happens—I don’t try and bring it about myself. I’m constantly a step ahead of myself, bordering on a hallucination.
JCJ Vanderheyden via De Volkskrant, 1998
The multiform work of JCJ Vanderheyden(1928-2012, the Netherlands) is characterized by the use of minimal means such as divisions, illusionistic surfaces, gradual shifts and strongly contrasting color fields. In his painting method he tries to distance himself from the process of painting, and explores in a subtle way the basic principles of painting and perception. Over the years he has thus captured the relationship between the eye and the brain in a large network, woven by the two most fundamental categories: space and time.
