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The contemporary pervasiveness of gentle abstraction - the reanimation of modernism - leaves De Keyser awash in his own lineage's current genericscm,
disentangled by his underdog aura, the underground, spotlight aversion "authentic": a "lifelong residence in the small East-Flanders town of Deinze." Whereas today's re-visitation mines the signs of modernism as a conceptual rationale for its nicety, De Keyser's working from its origin instead presents its bent version, an awkwardness to its tropes, undermining its pleasantry with, when at its best, its own game, making it disobey its order, reminding us why we liked all those modernist paintings to begin with.
And see too :
Zak Prekop at Shane Campbell ,
Ida Ekblad at Herald St. ,
Sanya Kantarovsky at Marc Foxx ,
Joanne Greenbaum at Crone ,
Albert Oehlen at Skarstedt