{"id":1227,"date":"2015-05-27T18:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T22:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2017-04-06T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T17:27:25","slug":"stephan-balleux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/stephan-balleux\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephan Balleux"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3360\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1227-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/stephanballeux.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/stephanballeux.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/stephanballeux.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1338\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1338\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Copyright-Patricia-Mathieu-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"photo by Patricia Mathieu\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Copyright-Patricia-Mathieu-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Copyright-Patricia-Mathieu.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Copyright-Patricia-Mathieu-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Patricia Mathieu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stephan Balleux\u00a0(b. 1974, Brussels, Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The work of Stephan Balleux\u00a0dramatises the activity of painting. You see an obvious stroke of applied paint, whether you are looking at a portrait, an interior or a relatively abstract play of forms.<\/p>\n<p>Balleux paints figurative images, which tackle classical motifs, saving his work from mere conceptual narcissism. He may cast a skull as a model, photographing it as a basis for a painting. Layer by layer, the painting takes shape. First comes the drawing and then the paint, until the piece looks effortless. Balleux also employs illusionist devices. He paints so dextrously that one would scarely realise that the canvas had been painted if he did not continually remind us of the fact.<\/p>\n<p>In the last couple of years, Stephan Balleux has exhibited at the following: Saarlandisches K\u00fcnstlerhaus, Saarbrucken (GE), Iselp, Brussels (BE), Wiels, Brussels (BE), Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Ixelles (BE), La Maison Particuli\u00e8re, Brussels (BE), La Centrale Electrique, Brussels (BE), BroelMuseum, Kortrijk (BE), D+T Project, Brussels (BE), Larmgalleri, Copenhagen (DK), Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing (F), Fondation Culture et D\u00e9velopement, Sofia (BG), Glaspaleis, Heerlen (NL)<\/p>\n<p>Learn more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephan-balleux.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his website here.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1355\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1355 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Hold-everything-dear-2_2010_Oil-on-canvas-1024x795.jpg\" alt=\"Hold everything dear #2_2010_Oil on canvas\" width=\"625\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Hold-everything-dear-2_2010_Oil-on-canvas-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Hold-everything-dear-2_2010_Oil-on-canvas-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Hold-everything-dear-2_2010_Oil-on-canvas-624x484.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hold everything dear #2, 2010, 200x250cm, Oil on canvas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1357\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1357 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Thank-god_2007_100x50cm_oil-on-canvas-510x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Thank god_2007_100x50cm_oil on canvas\" width=\"510\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Thank-god_2007_100x50cm_oil-on-canvas-510x1024.jpg 510w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Thank-god_2007_100x50cm_oil-on-canvas-149x300.jpg 149w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Thank-god_2007_100x50cm_oil-on-canvas-624x1253.jpg 624w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Thank-god_2007_100x50cm_oil-on-canvas.jpg 1901w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thank god, 2007, 100x50cm, oil on canvas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/stephanballeux.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listStephan Balleux\u00a0(b. 1974, Brussels, Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels. The work of Stephan Balleux\u00a0dramatises the activity of painting. You see an obvious stroke of applied paint, whether you are looking at a portrait, an interior or a relatively abstract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}