Landscapes and urban views poised between abstraction and representation The paintings of Koen van den Broek (*1973 in Bree) draw attention with their genuine, unique perspectives and range of perceptual possibilities. The artist wanders the surface of the world, finding visual inspiration on the peripheries of the city, on insignificant façades, empty highways, closed garages, lofty viaduct pillars, and desolate curbsides. Using his own photographic diaries of trips throughout America, Asia, and Europe as source material, van den Broek turns layered visual experience into compelling oil paintings on canvas. The compositions are vaguely familiar, but brushstroke and paint texture re-create, re-imagine and invent new realities. This publication presents the conflation of two exemplary projects: a monumentally-scaled series of paintings from the Insomnia cycle, painted in Antwerp, and a smaller, intimately nuanced group of paintings of the Greenhouse, created by the artist during a residency in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Landscapes and urban views poised between abstraction and representation The paintings of Koen van den Broek (*1973 in Bree) draw attention with their genuine, unique perspectives and range of perceptual possibilities. The artist wanders the surface of the world, finding visual inspiration on the peripheries of the city, on insignificant façades, empty highways, closed garages, lofty viaduct pillars, and desolate curbsides. Using his own photographic diaries of trips throughout America, Asia, and Europe as source material, van den Broek turns layered visual experience into compelling oil paintings on canvas. The compositions are vaguely familiar, but brushstroke and paint texture re-create, re-imagine and invent new realities. This publication presents the conflation of two exemplary projects: a monumentally-scaled series of paintings from the Insomnia cycle, painted in Antwerp, and a smaller, intimately nuanced group of paintings of the Greenhouse, created by the artist during a residency in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.