Pieter VERMEERSCH

Perrotin is pleased to present the second exhibition Focus, an initiative dedicated to special projects and thematic presentations. This time, Focus offers an intimate setting for Pieter Vermeersch to explore his artistic research of painting expands beyond the confinement of the canvas.


Vermeersch’s artwork feeds on all the antagonisms of the discipline, seeking, for example, to be both figurative (it always has a photographic source, and these photographs are always made by Vermeersch, even when they are what he calls “accidental”) and abstract (because these “accidental” photographs often only have to offer a few informal color variations).

Even when the canvas is “abstract,” it is paradoxically fabricated as a photorealistic painting, the photographic image being reproduced in it through a meticulous system of grids.

Text by Eric Troncy