b. 1976 in Kortrijk , Belgium
Lives and works in Rumbeke, Belgium
Tinus Vermeersch operates in the art historian context of the Flamish late Gothic, Renaissance and early Barock, focusing on the permanent, irrational and de-stabilizing transfiguration of apparently banal motives from the nature and everyday’s life, creating in this way subversive sensual metaphors of uncertainty and improbability. His subtle drawings and paintings open a hidden universe of small, almost unvisible, unnoticed realities, which reveal tremendous, deeply disturbing, almost frightening perspectives of unlimited obscurity where irrational, inexplicable, unsolvable processes and forces are shaping our world. The horror of the unknown, the shock of the obscure are appearing in a retarded, indirect, silent way.
