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Website: http://stefanannerel.com/

College / University: 1988-1992: HIBK, Higher Institute for Visual Arts (option painting), Sint-Lucas, Ghent

Program / Degree: 1992-1995: HISK, Higher Institute fot Fine Arts, Antwerp/Ghent

Member type: Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Painting

I am...: °1970, Dendermonde, Belgium
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium

About my artwork: It's like standing with your nose against the wall. You can see the wall, yet at the same time you can't. You can see its colour, its structure, but the wall itself remains hidden. This brings to mind another situation: it's possible to focus so hard on something, that you no longer know what you are focussing on—the image in your mind does not become clearer, rather it tends to become blurred. It's like when you concentrate very hard on a particular thought, and as a result you lose it, like it detaches itself from you. Actually, blurriness need not be the contrary of clarity: it can also be an extension of clarity—an emphatic clarity that results from an utterly consequent form of thinking that causes the clarity to evaporate.

A similar structure underlies the art of Stefan Annerel (b. 1970). Annerel isolates motifs he borrows from everyday images (advertisement photographs, patterns of textiles,... i.e. all sorts of images trouvées) and blows them up to such a size that they are no longer recognisable. Or rather: to such a size that they just become unrecognisable, because looking at these images amounts to balancing between seeing and not seeing, to anticipating the slight shock of sudden recognition, which, however, usually does not follow—but only just. Annerel's images are like words that are on the tip of one's tongue. And there they stay, eluding us. It's like being almost happy, because we almost overcome a failing memory.

But in Annerel's game of knowing and recognizing, the stakes are much higher. The fundamental issue in this instance, is how art relates to reality—how the image relates to the object that is being depicted. It's about the illusion that causes fiction and reality to merge seamlessly.

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MIND'S MATTER #3

Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:04

COUNTERCHANGE

Posted on January 4, 2010 at 8:00

MONOCHROME

Posted on September 15, 2009 at 7:00

Kusseneers Gallery at The SOLO Project 09,Basel

Posted on May 18, 2009 at 20:16

TEASERS & PLEASERS

Posted on April 29, 2009 at 2:30

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At 6:38 on June 19, 2011, Wilma Kun said…: Hello Stefan

How are you? thanks to contact me.

See you!

a hug Wilma

At 20:25 on May 2, 2011, Cody said…: Best wishes re. opening. Can't make it but would love to be there - Cody

At 15:58 on March 4, 2011, Russell Moreton said…: Thanks Stefan, will find some time to comment later.

At 8:34 on February 21, 2011, Benjamin Davies said…: Hello

At 23:11 on February 17, 2011, babyandlou said…: Gosh if only....How nice it would be to leave for a day or so! Sadly the foundations would give way. I can only say how i envy you!! I hope it all goes smoothly and bring back the lowdown.OH and of course...put in a good word ;) keep in touch

At 11:03 on February 17, 2011, muller jean francois said…: great painting.

At 10:22 on February 17, 2011, Ann Mc Cormick said…: Best of luck with the exhibnition Stefan. I'm sorry I can't attend. Iv'e really enjoyed looking at your work anew here. Best Ann!