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Walter Swennen what the body can do
, Posture Editions, 2025 Hardback, 112 pages, Dimensions 195 x 130 mm, text Eng/ French edition. ISBN 9789491262661.
Walter Swennen (b. 1946) is known for his radical, experiential and associative approach to painting, which is perhaps best summarised as a belief in the total autonomy of the artwork. For Swennen, a painting does not need to be 'emotive' or 'understood': the primary goal of painting is, quite simply, painting. Everything-form, colour, subject-comes from the outside. A poet before he became a painter, it is no coincidence that language plays a vital role in his practice.
