perfectdrawing:

The ballpoint landscapes of Dominique Vangilbergen .  The objective in these is to suggest a mood, to stage and imply a narrative, without telling one. The subjects and settings in his drawings mostly deal with his characters and their relationship to nature. Here nature is usually represented in a controlled or curated format: a greenhouse, the set of an opera, a deserted settlement on a mountain, all of these settings have witnesses, an audience. The audiences in the images call attention to the relationship the actual audience (us) have with these drawings. like a play, the stage and recreation of reality as a sete mimics the staging in his drawings, he see’s his drawings as a stage for his imagination. “I sometimes like to ‘fog’ the issue. People often invent their own explanations for my pieces, create a theatre around them. It’s flattering, but sometimes it is literally just a few marks made with a ballpoint pen, everything is open to interpretation.  I create new fiction, I make images that don’t already exist and I include narrative elements, but I don’t provide the dénouement. These have an underlying theme; some of them are about global warming, for those who care. But the bigger picture is that they talk about life and men.” -Dominique Vangilbergen