Rudy Meganck
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Meganck is an all-round artist.
In 1968 he made his debut with a collection of poems named Orchis. Only one year later te College of Education in Ghent selected his poetry to be given as memorial volume to the students of the year 1968-1969.
Soon Meganck switched to painting, where he portrayed the colours of his own world view. His first works were material paintings and graphic studies. Being a searcher, he quickly overcame the resistance of materials and venture works in mixed media.
He also took up het challenge of manipulating threedimensional formss and used metal constructions as methaphors for abstract thinking.
This primary period of intensive searching, experimenting and tasting was successfully compledted with a fisrst series of oil paintings; the press unanimously considered ‘Man and Woman in Purlple’ to be his best and most promising word.
Then followed a short period of landscape paintings, which the artist struggled throufg in a very original way.
He interpreted and developed the landscape in a distinct style.
Both forms and colours remained elementary because of the tangibility of het subject. In 1974, however, the artist threw off te yoke of the experiment and from this moment, his art anchored in his name and vice versa.
Apart from a few material paintings, he mainly opts for oils now, and the human being is central in his work.
The painter analyses mand and integrates him in his own image.
Strange creatures appear which, apparently chained in their dark environment, caught in the gibberish of the unconscious, suffer an intolerable pain and cry out for rescue. This lugubrious reality turns into surrealism.
‘Morbid details fascinate and repel. The thought of death is predominant’.
His metaphysical anxiety to understand man, tot catch the uncatchable, to figure out the end of man’s destiny becomes ever more coercive.
The paintings give us a feeling of ‘unheimlichkeit’. We run off, but we come back. Is the way to the essence of things not the way to alienation?
Throughout the years his style becomes more mature and his works lead their own existence free from any concrete restrictions.
From 1975 onwards, Meganck also models clay sculptures. Like his paintings, they are creations of lonely, sexless creatures the piercing expressions of which reflect sublimated desires. More and more, this kind of plastic expression forms an essential part of the artist’s work.
Finally, in the functional design of jewels and carpets Rudy Meganck’s art is stylized in a most refining way.
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Meganck est un artiste polyvalent.
Le recueil de poèmes ‘Orchis’ marqua ses débuts en 1968. Ce n’est du’un an après la publication en 1970 gue cette oeuvre fut sélectionné par l’Ecole Normale de Gand comme livre mémoire pour les étudiants de l’année 1968-1969.
Son goût de la peinture ne se fit pas attendre et ses tableaux furent la mise en imag...
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ENGLISH * * *FRANCAIS
Meganck is an all-round artist.
In 1968 he made his debut with a collection of poems named Orchis. Only one year later te College of Education in Ghent selected his poetry to be given as memorial volume to the students of the year 1968-1969.
Soon Meganck switched to painting, where he portrayed the colours of his own world view. His first works were material paintings and graphic studies. Being a searcher, he quickly overcame the resistance of materials and venture works in mixed media.
He also took up het challenge of manipulating threedimensional formss and used metal constructions as methaphors for abstract thinking.
This primary period of intensive searching, experimenting and tasting was successfully compledted with a fisrst series of oil paintings; the press unanimously considered ‘Man and Woman in Purlple’ to be his best and most promising word.
Then followed a short period of landscape paintings, which the artist struggled throufg in a very original way.
He interpreted and developed the landscape in a distinct style.
Both forms and colours remained elementary because of the tangibility of het subject. In 1974, however, the artist threw off te yoke of the experiment and from this moment, his art anchored in his name and vice versa.
Apart from a few material paintings, he mainly opts for oils now, and the human being is central in his work.
The painter analyses mand and integrates him in his own image.
Strange creatures appear which, apparently chained in their dark environment, caught in the gibberish of the unconscious, suffer an intolerable pain and cry out for rescue. This lugubrious reality turns into surrealism.
‘Morbid details fascinate and repel. The thought of death is predominant’.
His metaphysical anxiety to understand man, tot catch the uncatchable, to figure out the end of man’s destiny becomes ever more coercive.
The paintings give us a feeling of ‘unheimlichkeit’. We run off, but we come back. Is the way to the essence of things not the way to alienation?
Throughout the years his style becomes more mature and his works lead their own existence free from any concrete restrictions.
From 1975 onwards, Meganck also models clay sculptures. Like his paintings, they are creations of lonely, sexless creatures the piercing expressions of which reflect sublimated desires. More and more, this kind of plastic expression forms an essential part of the artist’s work.
Finally, in the functional design of jewels and carpets Rudy Meganck’s art is stylized in a most refining way.
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Meganck est un artiste polyvalent.
Le recueil de poèmes ‘Orchis’ marqua ses débuts en 1968. Ce n’est du’un an après la publication en 1970 gue cette oeuvre fut sélectionné par l’Ecole Normale de Gand comme livre mémoire pour les étudiants de l’année 1968-1969.
Son goût de la peinture ne se fit pas attendre et ses tableaux furent la mise en imag...
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ENGLISH * * *FRANCAIS
Meganck is an all-round artist.
In 1968 he made his debut with a collection of poems named Orchis. Only one year later te College of Education in Ghent selected his poetry to be given as memorial volume to the students of the year 1968-1969.
Soon Meganck switched to painting, where he portrayed the colours of his own world view. His first works were material paintings and graphic studies. Being a searcher, he quickly overcame the resistance of materials and venture works in mixed media.
He also took up het challenge of manipulating threedimensional formss and used metal constructions as methaphors for abstract thinking.
This primary period of intensive searching, experimenting and tasting was successfully compledted with a fisrst series of oil paintings; the press unanimously considered ‘Man and Woman in Purlple’ to be his best and most promising word.
Then followed a short period of landscape paintings, which the artist struggled throufg in a very original way.
He interpreted and developed the landscape in a distinct style.
Both forms and colours remained elementary because of the tangibility of het subject. In 1974, however, the artist threw off te yoke of the experiment and from this moment, his art anchored in his name and vice versa.
Apart from a few material paintings, he mainly opts for oils now, and the human being is central in his work.
The painter analyses mand and integrates him in his own image.
Strange creatures appear which, apparently chained in their dark environment, caught in the gibberish of the unconscious, suffer an intolerable pain and cry out for rescue. This lugubrious reality turns into surrealism.
‘Morbid details fascinate and repel. The thought of death is predominant’.
His metaphysical anxiety to understand man, tot catch the uncatchable, to figure out the end of man’s destiny becomes ever more coercive.
The paintings give us a feeling of ‘unheimlichkeit’. We run off, but we come back. Is the way to the essence of things not the way to alienation?
Throughout the years his style becomes more mature and his works lead their own existence free from any concrete restrictions.
From 1975 onwards, Meganck also models clay sculptures. Like his paintings, they are creations of lonely, sexless creatures the piercing expressions of which reflect sublimated desires. More and more, this kind of plastic expression forms an essential part of the artist’s work.
Finally, in the functional design of jewels and carpets Rudy Meganck’s art is stylized in a most refining way.
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Meganck est un artiste polyvalent.
Le recueil de poèmes ‘Orchis’ marqua ses débuts en 1968. Ce n’est du’un an après la publication en 1970 gue cette oeuvre fut sélectionné par l’Ecole Normale de Gand comme livre mémoire pour les étudiants de l’année 1968-1969.
Son goût de la peinture ne se fit pas attendre et ses tableaux furent la mise en image universelle de couleurs vécues. Ses premières oeuvres furent des peintures de matière et des études graphiques. Tout chercheur qu’il fût, il vainquit bientôt la résistance de la matière et se risqua aux oeuvres en mixed media.
Ik défia également la manipulation des formes tridimensionnelles: ses constructions métalliques furent des métaphores de la pensée absraite. Cette période primaire de recherches et d’expérimentations intensives, qui permettra à l’artiste de totu goûter et savourere, fut parfaitement clôturée par un première série de peintures à l’huile, dont ‘Homme et Femmeen Mauve’ fut consideéré par une presse unanime comme son oeuvre supérieure et prometteuse.
Suivit alors un brève période de paysages que l’artiste traversa d’une manière originale. Il les interpréta et développa d’un style distinctief.
La forme, totu comme les couleurs, resta simple pour augmenteer la tangibilité des sujets. Toutefois, en 1974, l’artiste brisa le joug de l’expérience et, dorénovant, son art et son nom se confondent.
Quelques peintures de matière mises à part, il opte principmalement pour la peinture à huile. L’homme devenant le centre de son ozuvre, il est analysé et synthétisé suivant l’image de l’artiste.
Des êtres étranges surgissent: apparemment prisonniers de leur sombre entourage, victimes du radotage de l’inconscient, isl souffrent des peines atroces et crient la liberté. La réalité lugubre devient surréalisme.
‘Des details morbides fascinent et répugnent. La pensée de la mort prédomine.’
Son souci métaphysiques de comprendre l’homme, ainsi que la conquête de l’insaisissable et le dénoncement dus sort des hommes deviennent davantage impératifs.
Ses tableaux nous rappellent un sentiment d’unheimlichkeit’. Nous nous échappons, mais nous revenons sur nos pas. Le chemin vers l’essentiel, n’est-il pas celuis de l’aliénation?
A travers les années, son style mrit et ses oeuvres perdent tout lien concret.
A partis de 1975, Meganck élabore des sculptures en glaise. Tout comme dans ses peintures, il crée des êtres solitaires san sexe, dont l’expression cuisante reflète le désir sublimé. De plus en plus, cette forme constituera une partie intégrante de l’aéctivité artistique de Meganck.
Dans la création de bijoux et de tapis, on retrouve la stylisation la plus raffinée de l’art de Rudy Meganck dans des objets fontionnels.
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