Damien De Lepeleire: La Lettre Volee. (Brussels).(Brief Article)

Damien De Lepeleire is a Belgian painter whose work proceeds in series, with all that this implies in dealing with difference and repetition, coherence and uncertainty. In response to the invitation from the publishing house La Lettre Volee to produce an art book, the artist chose as his subject--having already treated such diverse themes as soccer, Op art, and pornography--the art book. The result is "Trop beau pour etre vrai" (Too good to be true), 2000-2001, a series of sixty watercolor and ink renditions, more or less exact, of selected pages.

One group took as a ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.