Cedric Van Eenoo  France		T
	1.Almost Nothing, 2010 Digital Photography and Computer Graphics 45x30 In. US$300     2.Almost Nothing, 2010 Digital Photography and Computer Graphics 45x30 In. US$300     3.Almost Nothing, 2010 Digital Photography and Computer Graphics 45x30 In. US$300     4.Almost Nothing, 2010 Digital Photography and Computer Graphics 45x30 In. US$300

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With these pictures, almost nothing becomes a landscape, so called imperfections transform into an escape from the world as we know it. At the cross between painting, photography and abstraction, these textures also figure another world and a space for imagination. Today, we are drowning into a sea of explanations, words and things, hence, into confusion. Minimalism is the possibility to get rid of the too much and to focus on the essence. With less, we can access a freedom we are in need of: a freedom of interpretation. An artwork with fewer and simpler elements offers a space for imagination, for emotion, for a smile or a tear, for a gap in the incessant noise in our minds.

Abstraction in its diverse uses and meanings can be observed in Cedric Van Eenoo's artwork, choosing to give a conceptual inclination to the usual perception of the world and its ways of representations. Clearly this lost of connection with the real world as it appears results in astonishment and a constant artistic innovation. Through his work, it is possible to subtly perceive his way of expressing feelings, a journey that led him to divest himself of anything that is not essential. Yet the colors and outlines that shape his collection of works produce an amazement in which they articulate our universe of signs and visionary codes. Watery celestial surfaces, purple, pink, entwined with uneven black lines and circles: these are some of his complex and meticulous works which retrieve the essence of universe. The backgrounds of his paintings are enigmatic material interventions aimed to provoke a gentle transparency. This is how, beyond the rupture of that modernization that gave input to the origins of the abstraction, he arrives to use signs associated to what is purely intimate. He shows us his experience accumulated and well established in the very real meaning of it, engaging us to new forms of abstractions or to a more actual denomination that embraces the reality which shapes the visual storm of our day by day. (Rose Marie Bellemur, Art Critic, Camden Art Gallery, London, England, 2009)

Striking and darkly emotive, Cedric Van Eenoo's abstract acrylic paintings are impressive expressionistic works painted in a deep, rich palette of midnight blues, somber reds, lush purples, and illuminated by cool, lucid whites. The colors are profound and brooding as a stormy firmament or the fertile textures of earth. Expansive color fields are bounded by coarse but definitive lines - beautiful imperfections, threads of light, scars and fissures of accumulated time - scratched into the surface of layered medium. Dark landscapes, thickly painted with vigorous, dynamic brushstrokes, Cedric Van Eenoo's works are at once sensuous and somber in hue, arcane and wonderfully raw in style. Cedric Van Eenoo is an artist with the gift of an improvisational mind and the talent for the delicate balancing of structure and aesthetic latitude. (Art Mine Press Release, Agora Gallery, New York, NY, USA, 2005)