Jan De Vylder has been systematically repainting De Standaard Magazine with white paint every week for quite some time. He then hangs the magazine to dry on the laundry rack. Posture Editions assembled a selection from the more than 1,000 overpaintings for the book ‘ZONDAG SCHILDER MAGAZINE’. The spreads from the magazines play with the hidden or obscured, encouraging the viewer to look for the subtle differences within the almost nothing.
The act of repainting can be read as a response to today's confusion between culture and consumption, but also acts as a counterbalance to architecture. “I draw. And craft. And paint. PART-TIME AMATEUR TOURIST as background.”
In his text PAINTINGS ON A MAGAZINE, De Vylder gives an insight in his architectural practice and view of life via ordering, space, construction, technique, material, craftsman, beauty, desire and of course—Elsworth Kelly. Add on / take away.
Published by Posture Editions
Moderated by Christophe Van Gerrewey
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Jan De Vylder is an architect based in Ghent and Brussels. He has founded architecten de vylder vinck taillieu together with Inge Vinck and Jo Taillieu in 2010. The office has realized several works in Belgium and abroad and it has been exhibited in Art Galleries all over the world. Moreover advvt won international prizes (Schelling Architektur Preise 2016, Leone d'Argento in La Biennale di Venezia 2018) and curated the Belgian Pavillion at La Biennale di Venezia in 2016. Besides Bravoure Scarcity Beauty and Unless Ever People opened new reflections on architecture and practice. Jan De Vylder has taught at Sint Lucas School for Architecture in Gent and Brussels, at TU Delft, at EPFL Lausanne, at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and he is now teaching as a professor at ETH Zürich since 2017.
