After studying theology, architecture and free graphics, Bert De Geyter (°1984) obtained his master's degree in visual arts. He founded the cultural platform TUMULT.FM and the creative enterprise Studio SOSO with illustrator Eva Mouton.
Language, archetypes and the universal power of loss are very important in De Geyter's work. Art is communication and words and images are woven into his work. Bert knows from experience how comforting, healing, relativizing and empowering art can be and with intellectual pleasure manages to elevate the personal into a universal and spiritual whole with a particular interest in creating rituals. Uncovering the undercurrents that connect us.
In addition to works on paper and canvas, his oeuvre includes sculptures, installations, sketchbooks and text works in public spaces. Large installations made of black impregnated wood are astutely interwoven with impressive canvases in space. Letters and abstract forms play with black, white and light. Language and structure take the space in layers. Playing is important to De Geyter and not optional. "It is playing with the children in me, well on a very deep level, but it is and remains playing," the artist jokes. That joy of play is legible in each individual piece and comes together in a powerful whole where sculpture, space and line provoke an instinctive experience.
It is in the overall experience and in what you don't see but feel, that the intensity and warmth of his 'terribly joyful' work reveals itself. It is there that infinite new beginnings emerge like a memory still in its infancy. Like a perpetual mobile of hope.'
