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Raoul De Keyser (29 August 1930 – 6 October 2012) was a Belgian painter who lived and worked in
Deinze Deinze () is a city and a municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders. It comprises the city of Deinze, and the towns of Astene, Bachte-Maria-Leerne, Gottem, Grammene, Hansbeke, Landegem, Meigem, Merendree, Nevele, Petegem-aan-de-Lei ...
,
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. He was associated with the Flemish New Vision movement and gained international recognition after Documenta IX in 1992. His works are held in major museums such as the MoMA in New York and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.


Early life and education

De Keyser was born in Deinze on 29 August 1930, and lived there all his life. His father was a carpenter. He began to paint on his own as a teenager but soon started writing for daily newspapers,
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He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Deinze under the painter
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from 1963 to 1964.Raoul De Keyser: FREEDOM, 20 September – 29 October 2011
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, New York.
While at school, De Keyser joined ''New Vision'', a Flemish movement led by Raveel with the avowed aim of "revaluing everyday reality". His wife, Dina Baudoncq, whom he married in 1952, died in 1984.


Work

De Keyser created abstract paintings and works on paper. He switched from acrylic to oil paint in the mid-1970s. His mature paintings often consist of a few sparse casual patches of paint laid over a monochrome field. The paintings are layered or washed with muted tones, and feature primal organic shapes, grids, lines and strokes. Many of the images are based on small cardboard cutouts, continually rearranged.


Exhibitions

De Keyser has been the subject of solo exhibitions in
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(1991), and regular exhibitions in
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and elsewhere. For much of his career he exhibited primarily in Belgium and the Netherlands, achieving international recognition only after his work was included in
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in 1992. In 2011, he had a solo exhibition at the De Loketten, Flemish Parliament, in Brussels, Belgium, and in 2009, a retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany. In 2004, a retrospective of Raoul De Keyser's paintings was held at the
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in
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, and toured to Museé de Rochechouart,
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, France;
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, The Netherlands; Fundacao Serralves,
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, Portugal; and the Kunstverein St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland in summer 2005. At the end of 2006, there was a large overview of his work at the Museum of Fine Arts in
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, Belgium. Other solo exhibitions include the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2008); Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek, Deinze, Belgium (2007); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2002);
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, Ghent; The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (both 2001); and The
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, Dublin (2000). He has been included in major international group exhibitions, such as
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IX (1992), ''Der Zerbrochene Spiegel. Positionen zur Malerei'' (Vienna and Hamburg, 1993) and ''Unbound. Possibilities in Painting'' (
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, 1994.


Collections

De Keyser's work is held in public collections worldwide, including the
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, Pittsburgh;
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, Cologne; the
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, New York;moma.org
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;
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, Ghent.


Art market

De Keyser estate is represented by Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin and
David Zwirner David Zwirner (born October 23, 1964) is a German art dealer and owner of the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City, Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, and Paris. His gallery represents over seventy artists. Early life and education Zwirner wa ...
, New York, (since 1999).


References


External links


Raoul De Keyser at David Zwirner
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, August 2009

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