Willy De Sauter
° 1938
Lives and works in Tielt, BE.
There are few painters who, like De Sauter, succeed in pushing painting as far beyond itself while remaining faithful to the painter’s traditional gestures: applying a coloured medium to a ground. Because his objects’ implicit subject – the perfect distance – is relational and contingent, they act as architectural sculptures and choreographies of space, endlessly renegotiating their relation to us, themselves, and their environment.
His work is collected by institutions such as M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens (Sint-Martens-Latem), Vlaamse Gemeenschap (Belgium), De Bond (Bruges), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), and Groeningenmuseum Bruges.
