Inferno's floor
(2020) Inferno’s floor (Napoli Centrale) — ISBN: [9781234567897], p. 35-49, published
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- A few years ago, during a residency at the Academia Belgica in Rome, Damien De Lepeleire began to study ornamental additions: tiled floors, mosaics, architectural achievements from the middle ages, the renaissance and the baroque period. The mosaics of ancient Rome became a chief fascination. In these, the visueal simplification due to the use of square stones produces a meeting between mathematics and colour, suggesting graphic stratagems the like of which the art of painting did not enjoy until the 20th century. One might consider the series of collage-paintings, assembled under the title Inferno’s Floor, an homage of the major arts to the so-called minor one. Gluing small cut-outs from newspapers and art books to canvas, De Lepeleire reconstructs ancient mosaics or invents new ones, shining a distorted light on the patterns of a Roman Medusa or Mike Tyson. These are amazing works, light-footed and stern at the same time, intimately linked with De Lepeleire’s previous work, but completely fresh. Paved with good intentions, this painter”s voyage through hell seems to produce more and more breathing space. (Hans Theys)
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Loos, R. (2020). Inferno’s floor. In Damien De Lepeleire, Wouter Bracke, Roxanne Loos, Oscar Mc Hamish, Hans Teys (ed.), Inferno’s floor (Napoli Centrale) (p. p. 35-49). Three three one one. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/120312