{"id":2192,"date":"2012-07-21T12:15:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:51:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:51:57","slug":"stephan-balleux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/21\/stephan-balleux\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephan Balleux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes people talk about an artist being a “a painter’s painter”. This is a painter who really revels in painting itself, and whose work is more about actually painting than about making paintings “of” things. Stephan Balleux<\/a> is like that.<\/p>\n

Balleux is a Belgian living and working in Berlin – but still sells most of his work in Belgium. Why not, right? Berlin is a lovely city.<\/p>\n

Stephan Balleux is a painter’s painter, but in a much more conceptual sense. His work nods to historical traditions of painting and is quite conceptual in its play with surface – as – subject that has been such an important part of art theory in regards to painting over the years. What does it mean when the brushstroke is not only visible but is replicated with photorealistic techniques? It’s all very meta.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t