Jan van den Abbeel

About Jan van den Abbeel

Jan van den Abbeel belonged to the Optical Art Movement.

Together with Willy Plompen and Yves De Smet, van den Abbeel founded the PLUS group, which aimed to give concrete expression to a new relationship between the work of art and the optical environment.

He created visual works in which he rejected all lyricism and emotion, and in which only the colours and the structural elements created the optical effects and the rhythmic movements. The aim was to integrate this result into the environment and living space.

Born in Denderbelle in 1943, passed away in 2018.