Cel Overberghe

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Cel Overberghe (born May 30, 1937 in Antwerp ) is a Belgian graphic artist and painter , jazz and improvisation musician ( trumpet , double bass , saxophone , piano) and poet.

Act

Overberghe is a self-taught painter ; After completing his vocational training in arts and crafts, advertising and book illustration at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp as a graphic artist, he studied with René De Coninck, then at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts with Jos Hendrickx. During his studies he made his debut as a jazz musician in 1955 as a trumpeter in New Orleans Jazz , as a bassist he appeared in Germany in the Trio of Jack van Poll ; Furthermore, he played with Jack Sels and as a tenor saxophonist in the Belgian Congo (1960). He later improvised in various constellations with his brother-in-law Fred Van Hove , with whom he can be heard on several albums (first with the Requiem for Che Guevara , recorded at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1968). In 1972 he and Van Hove refused to appear at Jazz Middelheim because of the discrimination against Belgian jazz musicians compared to (expensive) American musicians, who were considered an attraction. Numerous other improvising musicians supported their protest and the Werkgroep Improviserende Muzikanten was born. Their first anti-festival Free Music took place (at the same time as Jazz Middelheim ) in Cafe De Muze . He currently maintains the group CO2 with his son, the film director and guitarist Tom Van Overberghe .

Overberghe illustrated dozens of children's books, but he mainly devoted himself to etchings and monotypes, as well as paintings. In 1958, at a young age, he was a founding member of the artist group G58 , which existed until 1962 . a. Bert De Leeuw , Jan Dries , Vic Gentils , Walter Leblanc , Pol Mara , Paul Van Hoeydonck and Dan Van Severen included. At first he painted abstract with a tendency towards monochrome, then he turned to pop art for several years . Further changes of style followed, with Overberghe practicing alternating abstraction and figuration several times in his artistic career. A constant in his work is that characteristic elements of his earlier periods keep recurring. The exhibition of his works in 1976 in the Campo Gallery in Antwerp's Meir was important . In 1996 he showed his sense of humor with an alleged collection of a (fictional) archaeologist Massimo Mendace in the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren , with which he wanted to protest against the established establishment (all his own work). In 2002 there was a comprehensive retrospective from 1957 to 2002. An interaction between his musical and plastic improvisation ability can be seen in his work to this day. In recent years he has also been busy writing; In 2016 his book Reports was published.

In 1982 he received the Grand Prize of the Festival International de Gravure in Uzès .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1960 - G58, Milan (group exhibition)
  • 1972 - Motte Gallery, Geneva
  • 1976 - Campo Halle, Antwerp
  • 1979 - Palazzo Rucellai , Florence
  • 1980 - Sebastian Moore Gallery, Denver
  • 1981 - Groote Witte Arend, Antwerp
  • 1983 - International University, San Diego, Wenger Gallery SanDiego
  • 1984 - Groote Witte Arend, Antwerp
  • 1984 - Monte Carlo
  • 1986 - Groote Witte Arend, Antwerp
  • 1987 - Bologna
  • 1988 - Groote Witte Arend, Antwerp
  • 1987 - Nice
  • 1988 - Stockholm
  • 1992 - Novanta Nove, Amsterdam
  • 2002 - Centrum T'Elzenveld, Antwerp (retrospective)

literature

  • Patrick Auwelaert: Het vierkant als tegenwicht. Over Cel Overberghe in: Vlanderen 56 (2007), pp. 169-173
  • Jos Daelman: I have a permanent laboratory: de rijkdom der variaties in het Werk van Cel Overberghe . Shields 1986
  • Johan De Roey: Het lot van Cel Overberghe , in: Knack, March 21, 1984, p. 157-159
  • Frank Heirman, Walter Siemons, Galerie S&S: Swing swang swingin 'Cel Overberghe Antwerp 2014
  • Wim Meewis: Cel Overberghe: een benadering , in: Cel Overberghe 1957-2002: een overzicht (catalog), AAA Kunstpromotie, Antwerp, 2002
  • Paul Verbraeken: Cel Overberghe , in: G 58-85 (cat.), Educatieve Dienst van de Musea, Stad Antwerpen, 1985, p. 90-91
  • Jan Walgrave: Cel Overberghe: de goden van Firenze achterna , in: Rik Decan (Koord.), Kunstbeeld in Vlaanderen vandaag: 100 hedendaagse kunstenaars, Lannoo / BRD, Tielt, 1982, p. 154

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personal data
SURNAME Overberghe, Cel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian graphic artist, painter, jazz and improvisation musician and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp