ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
ONE-DAY-PRESENTATION
Sam Scarpulla
Bart Spitaels
We warmly welcome you to the one-day-presentation of Sam Scarpulla & Bart Spitaels on April 28, from 2PM to 5PM at Hektor, in presence of the artists.
We kindly ask you to RSVP if you will join us.
About the artists
Sam Scarpulla
I tend to have no clear idea of what I'm painting, but human forms continually emerge, abstractions of an embrace.
Sam was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1985 and grew up in Umbria, Italy. He currently lives and works in Ghent and from his suitcase.
He is known for his large-scale muralisms across the globe, as a first means to make his art known to the world, but chose for a career in painting as a means to attain absolute freedom and to save himself from sheer madness.
Lately, his work made a leap from figurative to abstract, as figurative proved to be adding to the noise already present in the world
Bart Spitaels
Bart Spitaels (°1987, Mechelen) graduated in 2012 as a Master in the Arts at LUCA School of Arts.
He draws, makes installations and (wall) paintings in which architectural elements blossom. Throughout his oeuvre, Spitaels thinks up outlandish constructions that look like they were built from the remnants of a late-capitalist ruin. With just the right amount of graphic lines and meticulously measured swatches of colour, he conjures his own wayward world—one that shelters, shushes and prompts pensive moments
(text: Rufus Gallery)