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17 July 2022
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Raoul de Keyser

Untitled, 1997
Watercolor on paper
35.9 x 21 cm)

Raoul de Keyser. Replay Again
5 July – 6 August 2022
David Zwirner Gallery, Hong Kong

Raoul de Keyser

Ochtend, 2000
Oil and charcoal on canvas
190.5 x 252.1 cm

5 March 2022

Raoul de Keyser

March 7, 1990, 1990
pencil and ink on paper
27.5 × 34 cm

Raoul de KeyserMarch 7, 1990
5 March – 16 April 2022
Galerie Barbara Weiss

Raoul De Keyser
March 7, 1990, 1990
pencil, ink and gesso on paper
27.5 × 34 cm

[from the pressrelease]
On March 7, 1990, Raoul De Keyser made twelve works on paper. They were all executed on the same type of paper in black, white and shades of grey, making use of the possibilities of pencil, ink, and gesso. Many exhibit the geometric forms that marked De Keyser’s work at that time, others seem to indulge in the invigorating action of scribbling, still others allow ink to pool and bleed, letting intention and inadvertency play out in the mark making. Seen together, this suite forms an inventory of sorts of De Keyser’s motifs on canvas at that time, referring—in some instances—to specific paintings and—in others—to themes and compositions that the artist had explored and would continue to in the years to come. De Keyser often worked on paper— speaking about this practice as a liberating and generative one. And while it was not unusual for the artist to make black and white versions on paper after works that were completed on canvas, creating them in such a formally concise series, and further bracketing them by the insistence on the day they were created, is singular in Raoul De Keyser’s oeuvre (…)

The series, March 7, 1990 is not only about looking back; it is a mnemonic device, but it also looks ahead. Remarkably, the motifs in two drawings would only later appear on canvases. The first, Oost, 1992, is an all-over based on the branches of a monkey puzzle tree, which appeared in his work in the years prior but never as such an abstracted field. The second, Noord, 1992, is a densely worked, dark canvas, which has a white line extending from the bottom at a steep angle into the composition. On paper, the impasto brushwork is done in pencil, and the white line in thick gesso.

Raoul De Keyser
March 7, 1990, 1990
pencil, ink and gesso on paper
27.5 × 34 cm

17 November 2021

Raoul de Keyser
Untitled, 1996
36 x 21 cm
watercolour on paper

Raoul de KeyserWorks on Paper
17 November 2021 – 22 January 2022
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerpen

Raoul de Keyser

Whitechapel (Special ‘Hors Serie’), 2004
18 x 26,2 cm
watercolour on paper

Raoul de Keyser
Untitled, 1988-1991
41,5 x 29,0 cm
Indian ink and pencil on paper

30 January 2018

John Körmeling

Drolligs Kamer, 2015
pencil on colored paper
21 x 29,7 cm

Works on Paper I 
with works by: Anton Corbijn, Raoul de Keyser, Jan de Maesschalck, Yun-Fei Ji, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Grace Schwindt, Mircea Suciu, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré

17 January – 24 February 2018
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerpen

Raoul De Keyser

Untitled, 1999
watercolour on paper
16 x 11 cm

John Körmeling
De Wereld in Rechte Lijnen, 2016
pencil on paper
21 x 30 cm

Cristof Yvoré
Untitled, 2013
ballpoint pen and soft pastel on paper
21,9 x 29,7 cm

Grace Schwindt
Blade, 2014
pencil, acrylic on paper
34,9 x 27,7 cm

6 December 2015

Raoul de Keyser

Closerie VIII (Berliner Ensemble), 1998
Gesso, charcoal, and fixative on canvas
63 x 55 x 2 cm

Raoul De Keyser | Drift
26 November 2015 – 23 January 2016
Gallery David Zwirner, New York

Raoul de Keyser
Untitled, 2006
Oil and charcoal on canvas
43 x 36.1 x 2.5 cm

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