Exhibited Works
Black snow, 2025, II, 2, 2025
acrylic and oil on canvas
78.74 x 59.06 in ( 200 x 150 cm )
Blood on the hands, 2018, 2021, 2023, X, 3
acrylic and oil on canvas
78.74 x 59.06 in ( 200 x 150 cm )
Chemical snow, 2025, VII, 1, 2025
Oil on canvas in painted frame
28.54 x 20.47 in ( 72.5 x 52 cm )
Fading memory, aan hunnen voorzitter (à leur président), 2026
bronze
19.69 x 15.94 x 9.06 in ( 50 x 40.5 x 23 cm )
4.11.2021, 10:15, 2021
mixed media on paper
16.54 x 11.69 in ( 42 x 29.7 cm )
2024, V, 1, 2024
oil on canvas
28.54 x 22.05 in ( 72.5 x 56 cm )
Gargiliesse, 2025, VI, 1, 2025
oil on canvas
22.24 x 19.29 in ( 56.5 x 49 cm )
Informations
Solo exhibition by Ronny Delrue
ENIGMA
26.02.2026 - 25.04.2026
Opening on Thursday 26 February at 6 pm
Artist Talk & Book Signing on Saturday 28 February at 4.30 pm
"The landscape is a portrait and the portrait is a landscape. He is a unique artist who combines the past with the present and bewitchingly depicts existential questions. He stands in the midst of a world, flees from this world, and in a virtuoso way, brings a new, confronting world to life."
“Delrue’s work focuses on faces that are not really faces. These are memories of faces or shadows of human expression. They are executed in various media, of which pencil and watercolour are the most important. The palette is limited and plays out on the border between brown, blue and grey, supplemented by the inevitable red to emphasize details, introduce a scar, or emit a pool of blood. Six drawings in two rows. In this case, six heads turned three quarters to the left or to the right. The silhouettes can be discerned, but their gender is unclear. The face remains blank, or one or two eyes are suggested. The gaze is trained upon infinity or turned uneasily towards the viewer. The individual is reduced to a non-identity. This is Ronny Delrue’s hazy image of humankind, one that expresses his quest for the essence of existence.”
From the essay: Coming from the inside, facing the outside. Delrue’s journey of uncontrolled soul-searching and expression, Em. Prof. Dr. Katlijne Van der Stighelen, 2024.
Em. Prof. Dr. Katlijne Van der Stighelen is a Belgian art historian . She’s the promoter of Ronny Delrue’s PHD and is known for her research and publications on portrait painting by the Flemish masters. Em. Prof. Dr. Katlijne Van der Stighelen received her PhD in art history from KU Leuven in 1988, with a thesis on Anna Maria van Schurman. She was subsequently appointed senior lecturer at the same university in 1990, full professor in 2001 and full professor in 2007. In 2002 she held the Rubens Chair at the University of California, Berkeley for three months. Since 2003 she has been a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts .
Exhibition views : © Louis Weber