Selection by Brett Littman
![No title (From the book Le Cri du Pinçon [The Cry of the Finch]), 2005-2006, Watercolour on paper, 42.5 x 60 cm](https://i0.wp.com/philippevandenberg.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/21023022.jpg?fit=917%2C650&ssl=1)
![No title (From the book Le Cri du Pinçon [The Cry of the Finch]), 2005-2006, Watercolour on paper, 42.5 x 60 cm](https://i0.wp.com/philippevandenberg.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/21023023.jpg?fit=917%2C650&ssl=1)
![No title (From the book Le Cri du Pinçon [The Cry of the Finch]), 2005-2006, Watercolour on paper, 42.5 x 60 cm](https://i0.wp.com/philippevandenberg.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/21023024.jpg?fit=917%2C650&ssl=1)
![No title (From the book Le Cri du Pinçon [The Cry of the Finch]), 2005-2006, Watercolour and ballpoint pen on paper, 42.5 x 60 cm](https://i0.wp.com/philippevandenberg.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/21023025.jpg?fit=917%2C650&ssl=1)
![No title (From the book Le Cri du Pinçon [The Cry of the Finch]), 2005-2006, Watercolour and ballpoint pen on paper, 42.5 x 60 cm](https://i0.wp.com/philippevandenberg.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/21023026.jpg?fit=917%2C650&ssl=1)
![No title (From the book Le Cri du Pinçon [The Cry of the Finch]), 2005-2006, Watercolour and ballpoint pen on paper, 42.5 x 60 cm](https://i0.wp.com/philippevandenberg.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/21023027.jpg?fit=917%2C650&ssl=1)
![No title (From the book Le Cri du Pinçon [The Cry of the Finch]), 2005-2006, Watercolour on paper, 42.5 x 60 cm](https://i0.wp.com/philippevandenberg.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/21023028.jpg?fit=908%2C650&ssl=1)
![No title (From the book Le Cri du Pinçon [The Cry of the Finch]), 2005-2006, Watercolour and ballpoint pen on paper, 42.5 x 60 cm](https://i0.wp.com/philippevandenberg.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/21023029.jpg?fit=908%2C650&ssl=1)
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Artist or art professional:
- Brett Littman is the Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York, US
About the selection:
When I came to visit the Vandenberg studio in September 2011, I was particularly interested in one of Philippe’s drawing books in the archive. Here, the abstract patterns overlay the “concrete” poetic handwritten texts. For me the merging and overlaying of the abstract and text based concerns in the drawings, which are both prevalent in Philippe’s later paintings, gives us deeper insight into his thinking and aesthetic approach.