“Luc Standaert’s paintings come out at you, frenzied. They pummel you, cajole you, and over time something haunting, even unsettling permeates the work. This is the result of the artist’s highly sophisticated pictorial intelligence, which recognizes the value of indic...

“I had already seen a picture of it but up close it gets under your skin. Like our destiny, which lies undefined before us (…). He doesn’t paint a disappearing reality but an intensified one. The image unearths the essence of several fields of tension: between decay an...