About Timothy Van de Laar | Belgian Painter
°1988 Borgerhout, Belgium
Lives and works in Antwerp.
Timothy Van de Laar is a Belgian contemporary painter
based in Antwerp, Belgium.
based in Antwerp, Belgium.
The Unbounded Body.
The body is the oldest subject in painting. Everything ever painted returns to it, sooner or later: as hero, as victim, as god, as flesh.
I paint images I have never seen before. That is the only thing that matters. Layer by layer, figure by figure, until something stands on the canvas with its own logic: something that could always have existed,
but never did.
but never did.
The Handfoot is my basic form: the most human thing I know, and the most impossible. Not how strange a body can become, but how much humanity it can continue to carry.