EVENT DESCRIPTION
White Cube is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Léon Wuidar, marking the artist’s inaugural show in Asia.
Chronicling Wuidar’s remarkable six-decade career, the selection of paintings spans from the early 1960s to the present day, uniting the artist’s exuberant simplicities of form with his distinctive, exacting technical precision.
Further illustrating the artist’s enduring experimentations with colour, line and composition, accompanying the paintings is a series of previously unseen works on paper, created by the artist in the 1990s.
ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER
Born in Liège in 1938,
Wuidar often cites childhood recollections of post-war Belgium as formative to the development of his practice, as well as his friendship with the late Belgian architect Charles Vandenhove, who designed the Brutalist house and studio in Esneux where Wuidar now lives and works. A drawing and graphic arts teacher since 1959, early on Wuidar explored many different artistic styles through self-directed study – naturalistic illustrations were as much part of his practice as were still lifes or works inspired by Cubism and Surrealism. But by the 1960s, Wuidar directed his focus fully to a form of painting that would ultimately define his career.
