Jean-Pierre Temmerman
The idyllic, dreamy works Temmerman makes on small pieces of paper recall nature and landscape scenes. A large spectrum of often oxidized shades of green and brown predominate the works.
Time is an important factor as it often takes more than 10 years before the works get their mysterious depths and oxidized colours. The result of a long and patiently executed process. By strongly enlarging some of these smaller watercolour paintings, Temmerman is creating (monu)mental landscapes that invite the viewer to watch, dream and travel in the mind.
The enlargement results in powerful yet sensitive works.
The watercolours bear the unmistakable stamp of Temmerman. Again they can be defined as "mental landscapes": works that are the result of intellectual and emotional reflections, of reality and abstraction. Works that can both lead to harmony or chaos. All images are part of a larger whole, but also of a greater, never-ending movement, a film of successive sequences. In this way stories appear, not with a beginning and an end, but with open structures.