ABOUT MY ART
De Queeste Art 2019
De schilderijen van de Belgische artieste Nele Boudry bestaan uit een herinterpretatie van renaissance portretten en zijn een reactie op hoe de hedendaagse moderne maatschappij eerder valt voor faam en beroemdheid dan talent en kwaliteit.
Deze reeks ontstond nadat de kunstenares het Louvre bezocht en er getuige was van een stampede van bezoekers die met hun smartphones in de hand op weg waren om een selfie te nemen met de Mona Lisa.
Dit alles terwijl ze de talloze andere meesterwerken in het museum compleet negeerden.
Nele Boudry stamt uit een kunstenaarsfamilie. Ze studeerde ondermeer aan de Academie van Schone Kunsten te Antwerpen.
In haar artistieke praktijk staat de kennis en voorkeur voor de materie centraal. Dit vertaalt zich in een obsessie voor de schilderkunst. Haar beeldtaal focust veelal op het menselijke lichaam en het portret als vorm maar ook als filosofisch – emotioneel concept. Ze woont en werkt in Caunes-Minervois, Frankrijk.
The paintings of the Belgian artist Nele Boudry are a reinterpretation of Renaissance portraits and are a response to how today's modern society falls for fame and fame rather than talent and quality. This series came about after the artist visited the Louvre and witnessed a stampede of visitors on their way to take a selfie with the Mona Lisa, smartphones in hand. All this while completely ignoring the countless other masterpieces in the museum. Nele Boudry comes from an artist family. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, among others. Knowledge and preference for the subject matter is central to her artistic practice. This translates into an obsession with painting. Her visual language often focuses on the human body and the portrait as a form, but also as a philosophical - emotional concept. She lives and works in Caunes-Minervois, France.
life in Art...2017
Nele Boudry was born into a family of artists, who included her father, grandfather and most notably, the celebrated painter, Alois Boudry, her great Uncle. An artist is what she has wanted to be ever since she was a very small girl. She began at a school that favoured the arts when she was six, graduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Art when she was twenty-two. Her studies have been multifarious - from ceramics, bronzes, jewelry to sculpture, glass-making and footwear.
The look, feel and spirit of the materials she uses are as vital to Nele Boudry as the subject of the work. For her, the material chosen has a life and a meaning all its own. The human body which has fascinated her most of all. It is, she says, not just the way human beings look, but the emotion they express, their ‘feeling’ that she wants to understand and paint. Painting is very much, for her, an emotion, a matter of finding her way into the secret life of the person she paints - whether itis a model, a friend or even a portrait by an old master.
She sees herself very much as Flemish painter, not only in her admiration for the great earlier artists of Flanders , but in expressing the soul and the sensitivity that makes human beings so strange and utterly individual and which the Flemish masters achieved so memorably. She is, she says of herself, a very emotional painter, deeply affected by the extraordinary look and feel of the human body. Her technique involves building a portrait using many transparent layers to capture the light and mood, but also the feelings of those depicted in her portraits. She is looking for life, as it were, at the very nerve ends.
Boudry’s is a painstaking and very Flemish journey, one favored by the magnificent Primitive painters of Flanders. Often the subjects of her portraits turn their backs on the viewer, or hide their eyes; sometimes their faces dissolve, or are shown at one or more removes, thus inviting - or daring - the viewer to make the journey into the secret lives of those who appear in her portraits.
Christopher Hope
De Queeste Art 2019
De schilderijen van de Belgische artieste Nele Boudry bestaan uit een herinterpretatie van renaissance portretten en zijn een reactie op hoe de hedendaagse moderne maatschappij eerder valt voor faam en beroemdheid dan talent en kwaliteit.
Deze reeks ontstond nadat de kunstenares het Louvre bezocht en er getuige was van een stampede van bezoekers die met hun smartphones in de hand op weg waren om een selfie te nemen met de Mona Lisa.
Dit alles terwijl ze de talloze andere meesterwerken in het museum compleet negeerden.
Nele Boudry stamt uit een kunstenaarsfamilie. Ze studeerde ondermeer aan de Academie van Schone Kunsten te Antwerpen.
In haar artistieke praktijk staat de kennis en voorkeur voor de materie centraal. Dit vertaalt zich in een obsessie voor de schilderkunst. Haar beeldtaal focust veelal op het menselijke lichaam en het portret als vorm maar ook als filosofisch – emotioneel concept. Ze woont en werkt in Caunes-Minervois, Frankrijk.
The paintings of the Belgian artist Nele Boudry are a reinterpretation of Renaissance portraits and are a response to how today's modern society falls for fame and fame rather than talent and quality. This series came about after the artist visited the Louvre and witnessed a stampede of visitors on their way to take a selfie with the Mona Lisa, smartphones in hand. All this while completely ignoring the countless other masterpieces in the museum. Nele Boudry comes from an artist family. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, among others. Knowledge and preference for the subject matter is central to her artistic practice. This translates into an obsession with painting. Her visual language often focuses on the human body and the portrait as a form, but also as a philosophical - emotional concept. She lives and works in Caunes-Minervois, France.
life in Art...2017
Nele Boudry was born into a family of artists, who included her father, grandfather and most notably, the celebrated painter, Alois Boudry, her great Uncle. An artist is what she has wanted to be ever since she was a very small girl. She began at a school that favoured the arts when she was six, graduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Art when she was twenty-two. Her studies have been multifarious - from ceramics, bronzes, jewelry to sculpture, glass-making and footwear.
The look, feel and spirit of the materials she uses are as vital to Nele Boudry as the subject of the work. For her, the material chosen has a life and a meaning all its own. The human body which has fascinated her most of all. It is, she says, not just the way human beings look, but the emotion they express, their ‘feeling’ that she wants to understand and paint. Painting is very much, for her, an emotion, a matter of finding her way into the secret life of the person she paints - whether itis a model, a friend or even a portrait by an old master.
She sees herself very much as Flemish painter, not only in her admiration for the great earlier artists of Flanders , but in expressing the soul and the sensitivity that makes human beings so strange and utterly individual and which the Flemish masters achieved so memorably. She is, she says of herself, a very emotional painter, deeply affected by the extraordinary look and feel of the human body. Her technique involves building a portrait using many transparent layers to capture the light and mood, but also the feelings of those depicted in her portraits. She is looking for life, as it were, at the very nerve ends.
Boudry’s is a painstaking and very Flemish journey, one favored by the magnificent Primitive painters of Flanders. Often the subjects of her portraits turn their backs on the viewer, or hide their eyes; sometimes their faces dissolve, or are shown at one or more removes, thus inviting - or daring - the viewer to make the journey into the secret lives of those who appear in her portraits.
Christopher Hope