Vincent de Roder

Vincent de Roder was born in 1958 in the Netherlands, and he currently lives and works in Wetteren, Belgium.

His work could be described as an ongoing study of the line. Horizontal, vertical or oblique; often repeated, or not. Thick lines that become blocks, then thin lines, before disappearing, lines intersect.

Abstract painting par excellence, Roder's work gives great clarity to "nothing" and leads us to perceive the many things with which we fill nothingness, when we encounter it. Small paint accidents are preserved and cherished with great precision, inspiring tenderness. It is precisely this tenderness that transforms the repetition of lines (or bands or blocks) into a tautological gesture, an apparently logical proposition, a quality that cannot be defined.