Vander heyden is a painter, who’s concern is an intensification of life as a whole. You see fragment of the reality, chosen by chance. The artistic reality with interiors, details of paintings, screens, bluesky, clouds, horizon, TV’s references to art history, nature, grids, photographs, flying in airplanes, mountains(the unreachable Himalaya), fragments of fragments of images, impressions of space, instruments etc. He made cabins-as a head in which images a restored-in which you see the same fragments, ordered in another way than elsewhere and more intimate.

The formats are large or very small, as you remember things in your head, some events were more important than others, in his work is a scarch for unexpected connections between these fragments, between inside and outside, between the image and reality-a TV set with the convex glass facing upwards, covered with plastic foil. The rain fell on the TV set, while the TV showed the weather forecast.

We all have in our head thousands of images. In our dreams they occur from time to time. Everyday we receive new images, which a restored. Vander heyden -you can say-shows us how he handles with his reality and his image and the relations between them.

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