1967 "Wisser"

37" x 62"

Guillaume Leunens

In this environment bodies are moving, such as meteors falling into pieces under the effect of speed and underlining their trajectory with a luminous slipstream; bodies that are indefinable but at the same time materialized by a greatly accentuated relief.

Here we have a method of painting whose deprivation and apparent simplicity emphasize the evocative power. At a time that is characterized by the cosmos and crazy speeds in space, this method suggests through the very absence of relations with anything terrestrial (be it only the color) a supraterrestrial universe. One could almost say that Guillaume Leunens' art gives such an impression of truth and objectivity that it represents no longer abstraction but rather anticipatory realism.

André Marc, Brussels, La Lanterne, November 7, 1964.

Copyright 1996 ArtMetal / Victor Leunens