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Paul Van Hoeydonck
Belgian, b. 1925

Paul Van Hoeydonck Belgian, b. 1925

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Paul Van Hoeydonck, PVH111 - Composition, 1961

Paul Van Hoeydonck Belgian, b. 1925

PVH111 - Composition, 1961
Ink on paper
55.5 x 73 cm
Signed and dated lower right
Certificate of Authenticity by Paul Van Hoeydonck
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Paul Van Hoeydonck started associating with the ZERO group around 1957. A year later, Van Hoeydonck was a founding member of the now legendary G58 group, which grouped the Belgian...
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Paul Van Hoeydonck started associating with the ZERO group around 1957. A year later, Van Hoeydonck was a founding member of the now legendary G58 group, which grouped the Belgian post-war avant-garde. During the four years of its existence G58 organised eponymous exhibitions at the Antwerp Hessenhuis, bringing together the Belgian, French and Italian innovative artistic elite. Paul was was a driving force behind the historic 1959 G58 exhibition 'Vision in Motion, Motion in Vision', where his so-called 'Lightworks' featured alongside works by Yves Klein, Heinz Mack, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely and Soto.

Van Hoeydonck's career developed from a concretely constructed abstraction of reality from which purely geometrical structures took form. His ZERO works led him to movement and light-intervention which then gradually developed Paul's spatial sensibility to Space Art during the early 1960s. In 1971 the crew of Apollo 15 placed Van Hoeydonck's Fallen Astronaut on the moon surface, an opportunity granted to the artist that still remains unique today. Van Hoeydonck's oeuvre and contribution to the Belgian avant-garde is truly monumental. His rich mind, unique sensitivity, and innate intelligence still informs his unique expression today.

Van Hoeydonck's work is represented in many museum collections, including: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Walraff-Richartz Museum, Cologne.
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Provenance

Acquired directly from the Artist; Private Collection, London.

Exhibitions

Paul Van Hoeydonck: a Lifetime of Art to Honour the Artist at 95, Campo and Campo, Antwerp, 2021.
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