2013
The artictic work of Tinus Vermeersch - anachronism in the imaginationTinus Vermeersch creates work that probes and spins within itself, like a focused vortex of thoughts that go back in time, with the same timeless, experimental and human themes that unravel an identical socially obvious relevance. This oeuvre restricts itself to the human scale and to propoportions in wich the iconography revolves in the rich history of art without lapsing into copying or gratuitous appropriation. It is remarkable how Tinus Vermeersch imagines himself to be in a bizarre fairytale world where situations arise that anticipate what is in itself a persistently enigmatic outcome with no final end - against the background of viewer's attempts to decode the artwork and/or to envelop the idea behind it (and therefore also the artist's world) with content and thus try to take possessions of it. This oeuvre does not put on airs; it looks like it is scurrying ahead of its time and does not leave the impression that it has to justify itself, for example by introducing words of guidance. It remains incredible that a young artist can react against the noise and bustlle of the day and is able to opt decisively to produce art whose cornerstones are concentration, semi-art-historical feedback and technical skill.
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Tinus Vermeersch is not an artist who likes to show off and/or juggle with fine explanations or concepts. His work is, a priori, already in the fibres of those who look at it; a tension immediately arises in wich the image reposes as if in a channel between past and present. Tinus Vermeersch's drawings, turned over and over with pleasure and much time, immediately play a nasty trick on the 'topicality' of contemporary art. We, the viewers, see an anachronism in wich imaginary, staged scenes weather the insinuation that we are looking at an image from a completely diffrent era. And there lies the relevance of this work, executed with technical mastery, wich is seductive yet at the same time misleading.
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Luk Lambrecht, May/June 2013. (For complete text see bibliography: Publication 'Tinus Vermeersch' ISBN 9789490800147 , Art Paper Editions)
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