{"id":21192,"title":"• 0070 • Cathédrale de la Lumière","dimensions":"97 x 130 cm, 107 x 141 cm with frame","date_begin":"1960-01-01","material":"Oil paint on canvas","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":84,"category_id":181,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":15,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Axel and May Vervoordt Foundation","cached_tag_list":"Jef Verheyen Zwart","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003e---------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nArtist\u0026#39;s frame\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOriginal stretcher\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSigned on the reverse\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nDated on the reverse\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nInscribed on the reverse: \u0026#39;Anvers\u0026#39;\u0026nbsp;(twice)\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the meaning of \u003cem\u003eLichtkathedralen \u003c/em\u003e(Cathedrals of Light), the artist wrote in his notebook in 1961:\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eL\u0026rsquo;art flamand est un art sacrale. \u003c/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAl wat onze voorvaderen schilderden, diende om de kathedralen te versieren. Mijn schilderijen zijn ook sacraal of zij zijn kathedralen van licht of zouden in de kathedraal van het licht moeten zijn.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nKathedraal van licht is Kosmos.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nHet huist van het licht. \u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeintures fait pour la cath\u0026eacute;drale de la lumi\u0026egrave;re. \u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":129,"permalink":"70-cathedrale-de-la-lumiere","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/044/489/medium_500/70_asset1.jpg?1556020968","cached_actor_names":"Jef Verheyen, Axel Vervoordt, Galerie Bernard, Jos Macken","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Painting","nl":"Schilderij","fr":""},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/044/489/large/70_asset1.jpg?1556020968","poster_credits":"(c)Jef Verheyen, photo: Axel Vervoordt -  Jef Verheyen Archive","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e[...] In both operational and theoretical terms, these are somewhat eccentric positions to put forward in a European context, where the point of reference was still the pictorial dimension: a dimension which Verheyen himself was to resolve in a different and more evocative direction, in a sort of chromatic pantheism which receives spatial and light-related stimuli in a quite different way, leading to an explosion of \u003cem\u003eflows of light\u003c/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ecathedrals of light\u003c/em\u003e, which, in their very titles, bespeak his particular vocation and frame of reference. [...]\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSource:\u0026nbsp;Francesca Pola, \u0026#39;Bodies of light and dialectics of the immaterial. Spazialismo, Essentialisme, Achrome\u0026#39; in \u003cem\u003eJef Verheyen and Friends,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eexh. cat., 2010: p. 157.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAround\u0026nbsp;1966 \u0026ndash; 1967, Jef Verheyen would paint\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;Lichtkathedralen (Light Cathedrals).\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1232,"name":"Jef Verheyen","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}