Contemporary artists & photography | Online Art Magazine | ArtReview

Stefan Annerel Male Antwerp Belgium: Share on Facebook Share Twitter

Blog Posts (5)
Groups (2)
Artworks (69)
Photo Albums (5)
Video

Stefan Annerel's Friends

VIEW ALL ›

Stefan Annerel's Groups

New Abstract Circle

257 members
London Art Studios

120 members

VIEW ALL ›

Stefan Annerel's Page

Latest Activity

victor gutsu and Stefan Annerel are now friends Nov 20, 2011

Stefan Annerel and Jeanne-Marie are now friends Nov 16, 2011

16 more…

Photos posted by Stefan Annerel Sep 16, 2011

Stefan Annerel and caravaglia are now friends Sep 16, 2011

Wilma Kun left a comment for Stefan Annerel

Hello Stefan How are you? thanks to contact me. See you! a hug Wilma

Jun 19, 2011

Stefan Annerel and cosi are now friends Jun 19, 2011

Stefan Annerel and Coming Soon galerie are now friends Jun 13, 2011

view

Photo posted by Stefan Annerel May 17, 2011

0 Comments

Profile Information

Website: http://artnews.org/stefanannerel

Member type: Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Painting

I am...: °1970, Dendermonde, Belgium
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium

Education
1988-1992: HIBK, Higher Institute for Visual Arts (option painting), Sint-Lucas, Ghent
1992-1995: HISK, Higher Institute fot Fine Arts, Antwerp/Ghent

Represented by

Galerie Kusseneers
De Burburestraat 11
B-2000 Antwerp
Belgium
www.kusseneers.com

Locuslux gallery
Brouwersgracht 51
1015 Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.locusluxams.com

About my artwork: It's like standing with your nose against the wall. You can see the wall, yet at the same time you can't. You can see its colour, its structure, but the wall itself remains hidden. This brings to mind another situation: it's possible to focus so hard on something, that you no longer know what you are focussing on—the image in your mind does not become clearer, rather it tends to become blurred. It's like when you concentrate very hard on a particular thought, and as a result you lose it, like it detaches itself from you. Actually, blurriness need not be the contrary of clarity: it can also be an extension of clarity—an emphatic clarity that results from an utterly consequent form of thinking that causes the clarity to evaporate.

A similar structure underlies the art of Stefan Annerel (b. 1970). Annerel isolates motifs he borrows from everyday images (advertisement photographs, patterns of textiles,... i.e. all sorts of images trouvées) and blows them up to such a size that they are no longer recognisable. Or rather: to such a size that they just become unrecognisable, because looking at these images amounts to balancing between seeing and not seeing, to anticipating the slight shock of sudden recognition, which, however, usually does not follow—but only just. Annerel's images are like words that are on the tip of one's tongue. And there they stay, eluding us. It's like being almost happy, because we almost overcome a failing memory.

But in Annerel's game of knowing and recognizing, the stakes are much higher. The fundamental issue in this instance, is how art relates to reality—how the image relates to the object that is being depicted. It's about the illusion that causes fiction and reality to merge seamlessly.

Centre of the artworld:: New York

Stefan Annerel's Photos

Loading…

Stefan Annerel's Blog

MIND’S MATTER #3

Season's end 2010-11

Stefan Annerel, Leigh Clarke, Andrew Graves, Bob and Roberta Smith, Marilou van Lierop, Wim Wauman, Lars Weller

We kindly invite you to the opening on Thursday 12 of May. (6 to 9…

Continue

Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:04am

Stefan Annerel

Opening Thursday 21 January, from 6 pm

22/01/10 -06/03/10

Kusseneers Gallery

De Burburestraat 11

2000 Antwerp

Belgium

Ph. + 32 (0)3 257 24 00

info@kusseneers.com www.kusseneers.com

Open: Wed. -> Sat. 2 till 6 pm

The belief in the possibility of objective perception, of collecting reliable perceptual data, has long been abandoned. Man is no longer the centre of the world; his manipulated eyes are no… Continue

Posted on January 4, 2010 at 8:00am

MONOCHROME

Opening Friday 25 September, from 6 pm

25/09/09 - 25/10/09

Sometimes you can say more by saying less. Many artists find that the intentional reduction of visual information actually increases a work of art’s impact. One such reduction is the use of color, creating engaging art through the use of a single hue. Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center is proud to announce the start of its 6th season with the exhibit Monochrome.

Participating artists

Stefan… Continue

Posted on September 15, 2009 at 7:00am

Kusseneers Gallery at The SOLO Project 09,Basel

Stefan Annerel (B)

Curtis Mann (USA)

SOLO project Basel

8-14 June 2009

www.the-solo-project.com

SOLO PROJECT 09

St Jakobshalle

Brüglingerstrasse 19-21

4052 Basel

Switzerland

Monday June 8

VIP Preview: 11 AM- 8 PM

Tuesday-Sunday June 9-14

General admission: 11 AM-8 PM

The Solo project organisers are pleased to announce that after a successful first year in 2008, the… Continue

Posted on May 18, 2009 at 8:16pm

TEASERS & PLEASERS

Group exhibition with artists of the gallery

Stefan Annerel, Katharine Bernhardt, Eddy De Vos, David Goldbold, Andrew Graves, Tobias Hild, Curtis Mann, John Phillips, Jason Salavon, Bob and Roberta Smith, Wolfram Ullrich, Maarten Vanvolsem.

Opening Thursday 7 may January, from 6 pm

Exhibition until 27 juni 2009

Galerie Kusseneers

De Burburestraat 11

2000 Antwerp

Belgium

Ph. + 32 (0)3 257 24 00

info@kusseneers.com… Continue

Posted on April 29, 2009 at 2:30am

Comment Wall (14 comments)

You need to be a member of artreview.com to add comments!

Join artreview.com

At 6:38am on June 19, 2011, Wilma Kun said…: Hello Stefan

How are you? thanks to contact me.

See you!

a hug Wilma

At 9:22am on May 6, 2011, Janice Toulouse said…: Thanks for the invite, have a great show!

At 8:25pm on May 2, 2011, Cody said…: Best wishes re. opening. Can't make it but would love to be there - Cody

At 3:58pm on March 4, 2011, Russell Moreton said…: Thanks Stefan, will find some time to comment later.

At 8:34am on February 21, 2011, Benjamin Davies said…: Hello

At 11:11pm on February 17, 2011, babyandlou said…: Gosh if only....How nice it would be to leave for a day or so! Sadly the foundations would give way. I can only say how i envy you!! I hope it all goes smoothly and bring back the lowdown.OH and of course...put in a good word ;) keep in touch

At 11:03am on February 17, 2011, muller jean francois said…: great painting.

At 10:22am on February 17, 2011, Ann Mc Cormick said…: Best of luck with the exhibnition Stefan. I'm sorry I can't attend. Iv'e really enjoyed looking at your work anew here. Best Ann!