Catharina van Eetvelde

A rabbit with large ears and a dissymmetric body, a snow-capped mountain with its slopes covered with vegetation, an abstract scroll of paper... Catharina van Eetvelde picks up details, hardly anything, and gradually her intuitions come back so that she captures fragile moments. The drawings by this Belgian artist are a breath of fresh air, mental, poetical constructions which give birth to abstract or realistic shapes, very far from logo recycling and altogether different from the by-product images of this culture industry which colonizes our imaginative world without our noticing. A drawing by Catharina van Eetvelde, most of the time made on A4 paper, never exists for itself. It is always part of a narrative, it interacts with another composition. This is why the artist, according to her own tempo, carries out a dreamlike, organic arrangement : on the sheet of paper, the precise, delicate line mingles with the neat, emotional colours, forms, shapes. A subtle combination of feeling and imagination. While being mysterious, Catharina van Eetvelde sings of the world complexity. For her first personal exhibition, she reveals a daring work : a transversal section of her own drawings, a falsely hyperrealist representation, half way between an industrial line and the anatomic section of an organ... Just fascinating.

Nicolas Thély

Catharina van Eetvelde