Jos Devriendt | FLOWers

For Jos Devriendt's 5th presentation at Demisch Danant, we are excited to feature over 50 new works in his solo exhibition FLOWers. For this latest collection, Devriendt experiments with color to alter the appearance of the forms. Like a painter, his color palette is guided primarily by his intuition. Through chiaroscuro, the works play with the nuances of natural and artificial light, serving as sculptures in daylight and as luminous objects once night falls.

This new exhibition explores the solitude of the flower as a metaphor for the fragility and impermanence of humanity, while abstracting the beauty of the flower. The themes reveal Devriendt’s openness to the outside world and his keen observation of nature. For FLOWers, Devriendt has combined different materials, such as bronze, ceramics, brass and epoxy - creating new forms, new colors, and new stories regarding light.

Jos Devriendt is constantly reinventing himself through his art. A Belgian designer born in Ostend in 1964, Devriendt studied ceramics at the LUCA School of Arts and sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. Fascinated by the aura and tactility of forms, Devriendt's practice simultaneously embeds the earthiness of the ceramist and the ethereality of the poet; a seductive take on functionalism.