art from hildegarde handsaeme
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Joseph Chilton Pearce~
Biography
Born in Kortrijk Hildegarde resides and works in Terlanen (S.E. of Brussels). With an articulate preference for the figure and the nature of woman she went the self-teaching way in the plastic art form. The sensitive approach of this theme remains her source of inspiration which is utterly inexhaustible . The recognition of her artistic plastic language was a fact a couple of years ago when she obtained the third international prize for painting in Libramont.
THE WORK
Hildegarde Handsaeme paints mainly women and follows a harmonic and constructivey perfect pattern. The figure in itself is dominating but she knows how to put it the right surroundings where nature and cosmos play a symbolic part. With a set of straight lines she builds a mysterial haze of inner feelings on the canvas in a simple but penetrative way. She does not call for hallucinating images bet lets herself go with sensitivity guided by an unfailing intuition . Even when the figures at first sight seem distant they point to a certain duality and yet her usage of colours express a honest alliance between the data and the deeper thoughts.
Simply and honestly Hildegarde gives us the message of love and tenderness which should be shown to each individual. In a pictural equilibrated and harmonic way she knows how to remind us of the glamorous intuition of woman. (F. De B. 1997).
THE REVIEWS
Hildegarde's work presents such an original form and content that it is difficult to classify her in a painting school or to compare her to an eventual equal painter. Only gifted artists succeed to be independent from the start and grow gradually to a recognisable style. This is utterly rare. As a red thread Hildegarde's personality runs through her works which show us a very characteristic world. She seems to know always what she does and why and she leaves nothing to fate. her work is as she meant it and what she means she gets by her own way from background into focus so one can say without looking at her signature that her personality is clearly there. Her work is very personal and shows that art in se has no boundaries, is not subject to strict laws, is unseizable and difficult to put into words (E.BOON).
Influences
Miro, Picasso, Fernand Leger, Corneille, Karel Appel, Alechinsky
The artist at work
Solo Expositions
2018 Pjez Unique Antwerp, Belgium
2016 art from Hildegarde Handsaeme Rotselaar Galery DaDa, Belgium
2014 Constructieve Curven De Bosuil, Witherendreef 1, Overijse, Belgium
2014 Girls Ursulakapel, Sint Ursulastraat Begijnhof, Tongeren, Belgium
2014 GLOBALART Shopping Julianus Tongeren, Belgium
2014 PASSION Short Term Gallery, rue Blaes 150, Brussel, Belgium
2010 GALERIJ GEENS OVERIJSE, Belgium
2009 BRUISENDE KUNST OVERIJSE @ home, Belgium
2009 ODE AAN DE VROUW Art Gallery Charlotte van Lorreinen, Nieuwstraat 16, TERVUREN, Belgium
2006 EXPOZO UNIZO, Sint-Niklaas, Knaptandstraat 204 en Dendermonde, Hoogveld 22, Dendermonde en Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
2005 Hildegarde Handsaeme artwork BREMBERGCENTRUM, Bremberg, 1, Haasrode (Leuven), Belgium
2004 MONTILEDER-STOUTEN BEEK DEN HAAG MONDILEDER STOUTENBEEK DEN HAAG, Waldorpstraat 274 , 2521 CE, DEN HAAG, Netherlands
2004 DE DREMPEL ELECTRO MARTIN, Roeselarestraat 260, WEVELGEM, Belgium
Collective Expositions
2019 Kunst in Overijse OVERIJSE, Belgium
2019 Art Suspendu Sanary-sur-Mer, France
2019 Exposition Hotel Le Cinq Codet Paris, France
2018 Pjez Unique Antwerp, Belgium
2016 Museum Apeldoorn, Netherlands
2015 THE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR Brussels Brussels, Tour Et Taxis AvAvenue du Port, 86c, 1000, Belgium
2015 Adaf Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014 Kunsttentoonstelling in de abdij van Grimbergen Grimbergen, Belgium
2014 ANIMALS/PEOPLE Tongeren GA vzw Julianus Tongeren, Belgium
2014 Expo Stadshalle Nieuwpoort Nieuwpoort, Belgium
2014 DESIRE KunstSalon Kasteel Daelenbroeck, Kasteellaan 2, Herkenbosch(Roermond), Netherlands
2014 Kunst in Overijse Den Blank Overijse, Justus Lipsiusplein, Overijse, Belgium
2013 Hemelse ontdekking in de Galerie ' De Ontdekking van de Hemel' galerie 'De Ontdekking van de Hemel', Brusselsesteenweg 72, Halle, Belgium
2012 Art Takes Times Square Art Takes Times Square, Broadway between 42nd Street and 44th Street, NEW YORK, United States
2012 KUNST IN OVERIJSE OVERIJSE, Belgium
2011 Sensation Modern Fine Art Gallery London Sensation Modern Fine Art Gallery London, At 133-137 Westbourne Grove. Notting Hill, United Kingdom
2010 ZOMERKUNSTEN AARDENBURG AARDENBURG, AARDENBURG, ZEEUWS VLAANDEREN, Netherlands
2010 KUNST IN OVERIJSE OVERIJSE, Belgium
2010 KUNSTVEILING ART&AUCTION, Hoge weg 19, HULST, Belgium
2005 RENDEZ-VOUS VAN HEDENDAAGSE KUNST Het Achturenhuis, Spoorweglaan 7, Kortrijk, Belgium
2003 Art in Progress HALLEN VAN KORTRIJK, KORTRIJK, Belgium
2003 artinprogressHALLEN VAN KORTRIJK, KORTRIJK Belgium
2003 Hildegarde Handsaeme KUNST-EVENT stand 162, Bouwcentrum Antwerpen -Jan van Rijswijcklaan, 191, ANTWERPEN, Belgium
