PIF

As the days go by, we know, artists accumulate notes, sketches and texts-in short, scraps with no immediate consistency but which we guess are the origins of an idea that is destined later to find its finished form and to be the basis of a work.
Walter Swennen has, for decades, been putting drawings or sentences on paper and piling them up. From this daily exercise, he has taken a selection of just over 200 sketches. We will find humour masking seriousness and detachment going hand in hand with a sort of wisdom. And in Swennen's daily excursions, we find the Belgian artist's entire, sensitive mental view of the world, whose work has now generated a revived interest among collectors and critics.