Jan De Vylder

112 pages, illustated 30 x 21 cm, softcover, EN-NL

Architect-artist Jan De Vylder has been systematically repainting De Standaard Magazine with white paint every week for quite some time. He then hangs the magazine to dry on the laundry rack.
De Vylder sees this act of repainting as a poetic response to today’s confusion between culture and consumption.
Posture Editions assembled a selection from the more than 1,000 overpaintings into a reference work where the many spreads from the magazines play with the hidden or obscured in a radical way and where the viewer is encouraged to look for the subtle differences within the almost nothing.

The publication ‘ZONDAG SCHILDER MAGAZINE’ also includes a text by De Vylder in which he relates the act of overpainting to the search for negative spaces, openings and fade-outs within his architectural practice and within his view of life.