Known as the Homme de Poivre since the 1980s, Albert Pepermans remains as prolific as ever. Approaching his 80th birthday, he still works faster than his shadow. This late summer, CollectED welcomes the Belgian artist for a temporary exhibition at Place Brugmann, presenting a selection from his ongoing Journal Brut series. The exhibition runs from 10 September until 24 October. Since 2013, Albert Pepermans has been developing Journal Brut, an ongoing visual diary built from photographs taken during his travels and everyday life. Fleeting observations and seemingly insignificant details are transformed into poetic images that exist between photography and painting. Printed on plexiglass and mounted onto monochrome painted canvases, the photographs are stripped of their original context and charged with new meaning. Handwritten titles further blur the boundary between reality and imagination. Raw yet carefully composed, Journal Brut reveals Pepermans’ unique ability to elevate the ordinary into a deeply personal and evocative visual language.
Homme de Poivre
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