Bio
Willfried Vandenhove
Wilfried Vandenhove is a visual artist who has been living in Mexico for a few years, with a great sense of visual exploration and a great curiosity. First as a photographer and later venturing into other disciplines of the visual arts.
The scenarios through which he has transited are as diverse as his way of understanding art and life, from his family farm in Belgium when he was a child to the arid territory of Mexico’s border.
In this invitation to walk through the printing of old camera film rolls of slides to his colorful graphic work, it is always a door ajar, that invitation that is never verbalized but there it is.
A distinctive sign in his trajectory, is the arduous and disciplined work, that exercise of squeezing and unfolding every angle he sees possible in a piece to transform it into one and another one so different from the beginning.
Knowing the processes, the artist defines the engineering of the work and its final appearance, there are no coincidences, everything is there, it is only looked at again and again to find the new plastic solution that will take it to the next level.
Vandenhove gives us an experiential continuum through his images, today now he continues to develop his art in Mexico.
From the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, when he felt he could devote himself to being a war photojournalist, to the silent roads of Canada or the mountains of Mexico and the secret of their rituals, his work has flourished. In 1989, in a burst of genius and ruthless self-criticism, he destroyed all his work because he could not transmit what he wanted with all the material compiled throughout his many trips in and out of Europe.
Committing himself to start from scratch; he moved his life to the border with the United States and later to Mexico City, where he lives until today.
Using traditional media such as slides, or the «olddies» polaroids adopted by photographers at various times in history as an immediate witness to the truth that is only clear in the eyes of the artist.
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