Patrick Vandecasteele lives and works in Malakoff. Drawing from documentation work rooted in theatre and dance, he has been painting with oil for 15 years in a figurative approach. The focus of his painting is the human posture, aiming to evoke the infinite nuances of our presentations to the world. Over the past seven years, he has exhibited in Paris, Avignon, Venice, Milan, and Berlin. Through his painting practice, Vandecasteele explores the physical, psychological, and social postures of humans, the various attires they adopt to mask their intimate hiatuses. The goal is often to bridge the subject-movement with the brush-movement, capturing the spontaneity of human posture, its transience, the subconscious inhabiting a body and its stance, the links between composure and thought, gesture and intent, failed suppression of urges and words, our mental body-to-body dynamics. Nicolás Di Gesu, a figurative painter based in Madrid, studied drawing and painting in Argentina and Spain. In recent years, his work has focused on themes related to death and memory, inspired by 19th-century post-mortem photography. These historical images, aimed at capturing the appearance of deceased individuals in a peaceful or lifelike state, serve as a starting point for his paintings. 'Postmortem (or Memorial Paintings)' brings together works examining representations of death from an intimate and silent perspective. The exhibition includes post-mortem portraits and still lifes, all created using oil on canvas or wood. Through these works, Di Gesu contemplates memory, absence, and the human urge to preserve what inevitably fades. Rather than seeking shock or spectacle, his paintings invite a pause, a reflection on what remains after loss. Wilted flowers and motionless faces become visual symbols of suspended beauty, highlighting the tension between the ephemeral and the enduring.
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Aalt Stadhaus
38 Av. Charlotte
4530 Differdange
Luxembourg
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