Raoul de Keyser

de Martin Germann, Bernhart Schwenk

After his debut in 1964 the Belgian painter developed a working method that was as obstinate as it was tactical, in which the common distinctions between abstraction and figuration dissolve in the poetic binding of the work with the everyday. The catalogue to the first posthumous retrospective exhibition is conceived as a classic monograph on the life and work of the artist. Alongside a detailed account of the development of his oeuvre, the catalogue contains an comprehensive illustrated chronology as well as, for the first time, a chapter on drawing and photography. Equally interesting are quotes by artists such as Tomma Abts, Maria Eichhorn, Werner Feiersinger, Suzan Frecon, Roland Jooris, Thomas Scheibitz and James Welling about their colleague.--