PETRUS ANDREAS DE VUYST
Pictorial Art
Our
LATEST SPECIALS
Describe what you offer here. add a few choice words and a stunning pic to tantalize your audience and leave them hungry for more.
CV
Petrus Andreas De Vuyst was born in March 1954 in Ghent, Belgium. Following in the footsteps of his father, the painter Gaspard De Vuyst, devoted himself from an early age to drawing and painting as his forms of expression.
At 6 years old, he won the 1st prize for painting in his hometown (there is no image), which will serve as an incentive to professionalize his talent in Plastic Arts at the Saint Luke Superior Institute of Fine Arts in Ghent (1972-1976).
His academic learning process will be complemented in his father's workshop, achieving a formation with a clear vision of art in general and also a professionalization at the level of pictorial techniques, both with great focus on the art of the Flemish Primitives, known for their workmanship, meticulous and detailed, the work with glazes, its rich colors and therefore its very realistic style.
He completes his studies with a postgraduate degree in Art Works Restoration at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (1976-1978). Later, and until the end of 1987, he continued to develop his talent in the plastic arts and in teaching at the Saint Luke Superior Institute of Fine Arts, dedicating himself to the art of ceramics and restoration of stained glass. At the same time, he collaborates with the "De Vuyst" Art Gallery in Lokeren, Belgium.
In 1988 he traveled to Ecuador to coordinate for 6 years an international training program for young technicians in the specialty of preservation, conservation and restoration of movable heritage objects in the city of Quito.
Between 1990 and 1995 he managed the De Vuyst - Endara art gallery in Quito.
Since 1995, he was in charge of the direction of the bi-national VVOB development cooperation program between Ecuador and Flanders-Belgium.
In 1998 he organized with his Belgian colleague F. Liefooghe and the Faculty of Arts of the Central University of Quito the artistic mega-event "Plaza de la Igualdad" in the historic center of Quito.
In 2011 he honed his knowledge in the area of conservation with the diploma "Expert in Preventive Conservation in Museums and Exhibitions" from the University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.
He then carried out, with funds from the Embassy of Belgium and in collaboration with the University of Ghent (Belgium), a training project in preventive conservation for the National Institute of Cultural Heritage of Ecuador and the Equinoctial Technological University of Quito.
In 2012 he started two large-scale pictorial projects:
- "The Encounter between Related Souls"; and
- "The Spirit of the Place"
In the same year he obtained second place and an additional mention in the photography contest "Quito from the sky".
June / July 2017: participation in the Malaga Art Fair, Spain
June / July 2017: participation in the International Biennial of Contemporary Visual Art, Quito, Ecuador, with the triptych "An Encounter between Related Souls". Receives the visit of the Minister of Culture of Ecuador, Raúl Pérez Torres
August 2017: The triptych made within the project "An Encounter between Related Souls" will be part of the permanent collection of Contemporary Art of the Museums of the House of Ecuadorian Culture in Quito.
September 2017: participates in the III International Biennial of Contemporary Digital Art Photography, Ecuador 2017, with the Sunsets series.
'Untitled', painting with markers, 27.3 x 21.5 cm, Ghent, 1960.
"Quito", second place in the photography contest "Quito from the sky, Quito, 2012
"La Plaza de la Igualdad", Quito, 1998.
'Nude', drawing in sepia, 21 x 30 cm, Ghent, 1974
November 2017: participates in a group exhibition at the Luna Quiteña restaurant art gallery, Quito, Ecuador.
From March 9 to April 9, 2018, he exhibits his pictorial project "The Spirit of the Place" (see website tab) with poems by the Ecuadorian writer Manuel Jiménez in the Oswaldo Guayasamín room of the Casa de la Cultura in Quito, Ecuador
Terminando la pintura base en blanco y negro (técnica de grisaille) para refinar el dibujo inicial y establecer los valores tonales para la pintura.
From January 17 to 28, 2019, he participates in the collective exhibition "The true color of the peoples" at the Trude Sojka Cultural House in Quito, Ecuador
Two awards in 2018 by the London art magazine ARTIT
"Artit is an independent art contest platform to discover, promote and reward the brightest emerging visual artists and undiscovered talents." www.artit.co, London, United Kingdom.
The awards consist of the publication of the selected works in their magazine
"After the Storm", acrylic on canvas, 70 x 200 cm, Quito, Ecuador, 2015. Awarded with its publication in the third edition of the ARTIT Art Magazine, London, UK.
"Andean landscape with moon". Oil on panel, 42 x 23.5 cm. Quito, Ecuador, 2015. Awarded with its publication in the fourth edition of the ARTIT Art Magazine, London, United Kingdom.
July 2, 2019: new publication
The London art magazine ARTIT selected for their 7th issue 'Voice of Artists' my painting “Cliffs of Cascais” (Lisbon, Portugal 2019), 14 x 32.5 cm, mixed media on canvas.
September 2019:
1) Participation with two paintings in the collective online exhibition as a finalist in the international contest "Skies" organized by the Art Gallery 'Fusion Art', Palm Springs, California, USA.
https://fusionartps.com/3rd-skies-art-exhibition-september-2019/
2) From September 27 to October 30, 2019: participation in the collective exhibition 'Art and Healing' as part of the 11th International Art Festival South of the South, Ministry of Culture and Heritage, Quito, Ecuador.
From October 18 to November 8, 2019: participation in the collective exhibition 'The true color of the peoples', an intercontinental meeting of visual artists France-Ecuador, Robert's Art Gallery, Quito, Ecuador.
May 2020 : digital exhibition "Tu Mejor Pintura - Your Best Painting" organized by the Arte Libre gallery https://www.artelibre.net/ , Zaragoza, Spain. Participating painting: "Condor Machay Cloud Forest" from the series A Contraluz, Quito 2019. The exhibition is shared by the Chinese Art portal www.clatia.com
July 2020:
From July 17 to August 30: participation in the collective exhibition 'Summer Salon 2020, Buy Local', meeting of visual artists from Ghent, Belgium, in Kunsthal Ghent, Caemersklooster. Participating work: "Mother Earth stretches with the aroma of flowers."
