Book launch Jan De Vylder 27.08 at CIVA

Posture Editions N° 59: Jan De Vylder ‘Zondag Schilder Magazine’

BOOK LAUNCH: CIVA Brussels Wed. August 27, 7 pm

Jan De Vylder will present the installation PAINTINGS ON A MAGAZINE Christophe Van Gerrewey will interview him about his work (in English).

Rue de l’Ermitage 55 Kluisstraat
1050 Brussel

Tickets: free – BOOK HERE

In 2020, Posture published their first book with the internationally renowned architect-artist: “WAT. IS. DIT” (N° 38), a selection from his numerous Moleskine sketchbooks. The book has since sold out.

De Vylder has been systematically overpainting De Standaard Magazine with white paint every week for quite some time now. Then he hangs the magazine to dry on the laundry rack. 

De Vylder sees this act as a poetic response to today's mix-up of culture and consumption. The book compiles a selection from more than 1,000 overpaintings into a voluminous reference work in which the many spreads from the magazines play radically with the hidden or concealed and where the viewer is encouraged to look for the subtle differences within almost nothing.

De Vylder himself writes a text for the book in which he relates repainting to the search for the negative spaces, the openings, and the fade-out within his architectural practice.

In the context of the book, Jan De Vylder developed editions and a multiple. More info