Luc Verbeke
An artist with a passion for creations in stone. Luc Verbeke combines craftsmanship with an artistic vision and explores the limits of sculpture with all kinds of techniques.
Turbulence
The terrorist attacks at the airport of Brussels and in the subway, were a hard shock to Belgium. With my work I suggest that after misery life begins again.
Florescendo
What a sense of freedom a plant must feel when she opens into bloom
Fior di Pesco
The evolution of nature provides marble sometimes with colours that even an artist couldn't imagine.
L'Origine du Monde
Ode to Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
Aphrodite(Venus)
The most beautiful creature, symbol of physical love, she was born from the foam of the waves. Venus is carried on a shell by the western wind to the island of Cyprus.
Freedom
Spread your wings
to the blue sky
Have faith,
Take a big leap
you sure didn't know
that you can really fly
The Sun
Enjoy its light and heat.
The battle of the Titans
At the beginning of the creation of the earth, the Titans fought a terrible fight with the Olympic Gods. The battle was so fierce that mountains rose from the sea!
Manta
This fish is not swimming, it's flying gracefully in the sea...
La Notte
The grey darkness of the end of the day, a blessing or a threat?
La Curva
This stone is blowing in the wind and enchants us with its beautiful curve.
Salsa
Returning from a holiday in Cuba I felt the need to express some happy Cuban dance vibes.
Alliance
Joined by battle or by love, they have in common that the wind hits them from the same direction.
Helleborus
The flower plant is the first to emerge between snow and ice. They come to tell us: prepare for spring.
Love
Although made in one piece, there are clearly two entities. They embrace each other tenderly.
Nimrud
Was the second capital of the Assyrian Empire from 850 BC. Not far from Mosul in Iraq. ISIS destroyed the old site because pre-Islamic art is considered to be pagan.
The Beginning
There was once the primal stone from which everything arose. It carried perfection but didn't want to become perfect.
La Primavera
The joy of spring.
Ode to red wine
The whole thing is reversed: the background is red, the drops of red wine are white. The glass at the top is half full and not red either.
Artistic objects with a useful purpose
Art combined with craft to give the object a function in a daily live.
The Three Graces
Aglaia (beauty), Euphrosyne (joy), Thalia (happiness).
22.03.2016
The terrorist attacks at the airport of Brussels and in the subway, were a hard shock to Belgium. With my work I suggest that after misery life begins again.
The seat of past and present
A work that is now located in a residential care centre in Gits. Two parts are cut in one piece. There is an older part where residents can find themselves. And a design part as a symbol for the new age.
Note that in the railing I copied the hands of random residents.
Metamorphoses
Movement, evolution. The challenge to overcome the heaviness of the material in a composition of circles that look light because of their thin silhouette.
From Hell to Heaven
Man has to see Hell before he reaches Paradise.
Metamorphoses
The circles are connected by an imaginary thread. When you look inside the tunnel of circles, your eyes meet infinity.
The Beautiful but Horrible Sea
Luc Verbeke, who is also a Skipper, knows very well that the charming sea can turn into a monster that wants to swallow you.
After the Explosion
War Memorial
This was left
a hole of emptiness
the seed of future
replaced by blood
please remember them
don't let those die
for the second time (L. V.)
Yin & Yang
(in cooperation with Veerle De Vos)
Tai-Chi circle, symbol of opposition and balance
Apart, but close to one another
Attracted, but the two parts separated
Melting, but not mixed
Sugar and salt (L. V.)
Order and Chaos
(in cooperation with Veerle De Vos)
Chaos turns into Order
And order dissolves into Chaos
So it is, and so it will always be
Through thousands and thousands of years
This has been the building stone of our evolution (L. V.)
The Secret Meeting
It is full of fragments from a secret diary with letters from my mother to my father in their early love life.
The Tearing
These three works represent how a crack becomes irreversibly larger.
Panta Rhei
Everything flows, everything is moving. (Greek natural philosopher Heraclitus 540–480 BC)