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HILDEGARDE HANDSAEME
Born in
Kortrijk Hildegarde resides and works in Terlanen (S.E. of Brussels). With an
articulate preference for the figure and the nature of woman she went the
self-teaching way in the plastic art form. The sensitive approach of this theme
remains her source of inspiration which is utterly inexhaustible. The
recognition of her artistic plastic language was a fact a couple of years ago
when she obtained the third international prize for painting in Libramont.
THE
WORK
Hildegarde
Handsaeme paints mainly women and follows a harmonic and constructively perfect
pattern. The figure in itself is dominating but she knows how to put it the
right surroundings where nature and cosmos play a symbolic part. With a set of
straight lines she builds a mysterial haze of inner feelings on the canvas in a
simple but penetrative way. She does not call for hallucinating images bet lets
herself go with sensitivity guided by an unfailing intuition . Even when the
figures at first sight seem distant they point to a certain duality and yet her
usage of colours express a honest alliance between the data and the deeper
thoughts.
Simply
and honestly Hildegarde gives us the message of love and tenderness which
should be shown to each individual. In a pictorial equilibrated and harmonic way
she knows how to remind us of the glamorous intuition of woman. (F.
De B. 1997).
THE
REVIEWS
Hildegarde's
work presents such an original form and content that it is difficult to
classify her in a painting school or to compare her to an eventual equal painter.
Only gifted artists succeed to be independent from the start and grow gradually
to a recognizable style. This is utterly rare. As a red thread Hildegarde's
personality runs through her works which show us a very characteristic world.
She seems to know always what she does and why and she leaves nothing to fate.
her work is as she meant it and what she means she gets by her own way from
background into focus so one can say without looking at her signature that her
personality is clearly there. Her work is very personal and shows that art in
se has no boundaries, is not subject to strict laws, is unseizable and
difficult to put into words (E.BOON).
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