Wannes Cools left behind a series of landmarks on Lanzarote. Read more about these interventions here.

Since 2016, Wannes Cools works as a visual artist in an array of mediums, ranging from drawing to installations and much more.

During his residency he wants to expand and explore further on an already existing series of paintings. As of right now the series uses landscape as the main narrative and a very specific source material.

His focus of investigation will be the landscape and the exotic. This will form the base of the questions he wants to apply to himself. More practical it means he will working in the field a lot: walking, drawing, talking/recording, pictures and observing, mostly in a sort of solitude.

He will then bring his findings as previously described, in different media, into the studio of Hektor, where further deploy his practice as a painter onto the findings he gathered. Starting with mainly gathering source material, his residency will evolve into more applied work and connecting with the local communities to help him out with translating drawings into paintings for example.

While working on a hand full of paintings he wants to use his time to get to know the local people and talk to them about what the term landscape means in an array of layers concerning for example heritage, culture, geographical esthetics, etc. He wants to try and record as much of these conversations as possible.

During his last week Wannes will make a publication of sorts in which he can showcase both the investigations and the possible end results of his stay in Hektor.

Wannes intends to leave behind a body of work at Hektor.

Rawhide Landscapes

Catania

YP (yellow pages)

Sicily

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