Charlie De Voet (1977, Ronse BE) researches the interplay between painting and sculpture, where he experiments with texture, shape and colour. He’s exploring the tension between the figurative and abstract and how perception and imagination can complement and challenge each other. By creating temporary series that interact with each other, the space and the audience, his constellations form rhythmic units with their own logic, message or poetry. He focuses on paint as matter, exploring the effects of excessive layering. His monochrome paintings, with subtle transitions from dark to light and painted wet in wet painted with oil paint, emerge from an intensive process that De Voet describes as ‘almost meditative’. The simplicity in his work provides a counterpoint to the abundance of stimuli in the world. These paintings create a space for reflection and invite the viewer to experience the power of simplicity and the depth of matter to experience.