Bert Danckaert
Né en 1965 à Anvers, Belgique.
On a souvent comparé les photographies de l’artiste belge Bert Danckaert à des peintures abstraites. Possédant un sens inouï du génie de la composition , à la manière d’un peintre abstrait néo-plasticien avec une précision géométrique étonnante pour réaliser des images qui séduisent par leur philosophie minimaliste en apparence simple, épurée et parfaite. Sa palette, surprenante par sa chromaticité et par sa clarté évoque le conceptualisme et la nature rebelle, pour ne pas dire inébranlable, de prédécesseurs comme Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore et Lynne Cohen qu’à ces visionnaires de la peinture, les néo-plasticiens abstraits.” James D. Campbell, Ciel Variable #111
Bert Danckaert a étudié la photographie à l’Académie Royale des beaux-arts d’Anvers. Il travaille comme photographe depuis le milieu des années quatre-vingt-dix et il a présenté ses oeuvres dans de nombreuses expositions solo et collectives en Belgique, au Luxembourg en Chine et à Cuba. Bert Danckaert écrit à propos de la photographie pour le magazine européen ART et il a oeuvré comme commissaire indépendant. Il est professeur associé de photographie à l’académie Royale des beaux-arts d’Anvers et membre de POC (Piece of Cake), un réseau international de photographes.
Born 1965, Antwerp, Belgium.
“The photographs of Belgian artist Bert Danckaert have been likened to abstract paintings. Given his uncanny eye for the compositional “Eureka!” behind the lens, it’s as though he is using masking tape in the same way that a hard-edge abstract painter does, and cropping with an uncanny order of geometric precision, to produce images that beguile us with their apparently simple, clean and pristine minimalist ethos. Appearances can be deceiving, however, because his palette, startling in its bold declarative chromaticity and hallucinatory in its clarity, owes rather more to conceptualism and to wayward, if stalwart, forebears such as Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore, and Lynne Cohen than to the hard-edge abstractionists.” James Campbell, Ciel Variable #111.
Bert Danckaert studied photography at the Academy for Fine Arts and the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts (NHISK) in Antwerp. Since the mid nineties, he has been working as a photographer and has showed his work in several solo and group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad. Besides his artistic activities, Danckaert also writes about photography for several newspapers and magazines but (mainly for ART) and has worked as freelance curator. He is associate professor of photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp. Bert Danckaert is POC (Piece of Cake) member, an international network of photographers.
In 1999, Danckaert started the series ‘Make Sense!’ which was published as a book in 2006. In 2007 he started working on a series entitled ‘Simple Present’ of which the book ‘Simple Present – Beijing’ appeared in 2008, ‘Cape Town Notes’ in 2009 and finally the complete series ‘Simple Present’ in 2013. In 2016 his 5th book ‘Horizon’ appeared together with the English translation of his novel ‘De Extra’s’ as ‘The Extras’.
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