Any Colour you like

Larsen Bervoets

21.02.26 - 22.03.26

For his first solo exhibition in his hometown of Antwerp, Larsen Bervoets (b. 1979) adopts a markedly more restrained register. Known for his monumental murals with bold colour contrasts, geometric compositions and pronounced perspectival effects, he shifts here towards a muted, almost bleached palette.

The paintings present object-like and architectural volumes, approached from varying angles. Buildings are observed from a distance, at times from a viewpoint that suggests an aerial perspective. The familiar interplay of form, contrast and optical tension remains present, yet is deployed with greater restraint and concentration. The strictly geometric subjects are rendered with a surprisingly loose line quality, allowing the controlled three-dimensional perspective to retain a sense of vitality.

Alongside acrylic and oil paintings in a range of formats, the exhibition includes works on paper. Circular fields of colour emerged through the prolonged exposure of paper to sunlight through a round aperture: yellow, green and red “suns,” as well as a pale “paper moon” on a flag stored in a flight case. Prominently suspended in the space is a black flag made from the same paper. Draped and stilled, it resists explicit interpretation.

Several motifs reappear in ceramic form. A building that is viewed from above in the paintings stands here in black clay as a tangible volume. Small surveillance aircraft are likewise rendered in ceramic. They appear to be flying off, recalling the porcelain swallows once displayed above a mantelpiece — a subtle shift from domestic ornament to contemporary visual language.

Submarine-like forms, drones, stealth aircraft, black flags and buildings seen as if through a targeting lens: elements that have become familiar within recent visual culture quietly enter the work. Bervoets does not adopt them as statements, but as images. He observes. He registers. Meaning remains open, shaped in part by the viewer’s gaze.

With Any Colour You Like, Larsen Bervoets presents a body of work in which form and perspective remain central, yet where distance itself becomes the subject. The intensity no longer resides in colour, but in the act of looking.

21 February → 22 March 2026
Open Fri – Sat – Sun, 13–18h or by appointment

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