Wim Nival: Retrospective

This retrospective presentation shows how Wim Nival’s view has sharpened over the years. The painterly touch gave way to what we could call the ‘emotional value of the material’, and his color palette now tends to a restrained monochromy – or rather, is often dictated by colors specific to his materials. Where Nival connects this Vorleben with his own interventions, the character that characterizes and distinguishes his works arises. Nival ‘activates’ dormant, unnoticed structures in the ordinary and everyday, the lure of rhythms, schemes and patterns. It leads to a reduced visual language that seduces but never ‘decorates’, that is well-considered-geometric, but never cooled down.