Peter Waterschoot (1969-2022) - Profile · Composition abstraite

• Artist: Peter Waterschoot (1969–2022) Belgium
• Title: Profil
• Date: 1996
• Technique: Mixed media and acrylic with textured material on thick paper

• Dimensions: 69.8 × 53.5 cm
• Signature / Mark: Signed and titled on the back by the artist “Waterschoot ’96” and “Profile”
• Framing: Not framed
• Condition: Very good overall condition

Description of the work
The explosive composition revolves around an abstract profile suggested in the upper part of the work by powerful black and blue gestural lines. These dynamic forms evoke a face or silhouette that emerges with force from an incandescent background, structuring the pictorial space in an expressive and dramatic way.

The vibrant and warm palette combines intense reds, blazing oranges, solar yellows, touches of deep blue, bright white, and black accents. These colors are applied in thick, layered, interwoven strokes, creating a lively surface, great emotional intensity, and a sense of perpetual movement. The whole evokes a human figure emerging from a chaotic, colorful, and textured environment, characteristic of the artist’s expressive abstraction.

Material work
The piece is characterized by a surface treatment that is particularly rich and sculptural. The artist has incorporated mineral charges, generous impastos, and filamentous or scraped elements (visible in the areas of white, intertwined graphism), producing a dense relief and an almost tactile presence.
The contrasts between areas of thick texture and more fluid or scraped passages reveal the different layers of color. This dialogue between relief and transparency creates a subtle play with light and enhances depth as well as the gestural energy of the composition.

Artist
Peter Waterschoot is a Belgian artist whose painting practice sits within contemporary expressive abstraction. His work explores the relationship between gesture, material, and pictorial space. The works from this period, such as this “Profil” from 1996, testify to an experimental approach where texture, incandescent color, and the energy of gesture become fundamental elements of the composition.

Condition of conservation
The work is in very good overall condition.
The paper is sound and stable, with no tears or visible restoration.
The pictorial surface fully preserves its reliefs, textures, and the vividness of its colors.

Shipping
The work will be carefully packaged with rigid protections suitable for works on paper, to ensure safe transport.

This work titled “Profil” constitutes an emblematic piece of Peter Waterschoot’s 1996 output, combining the expressive power of texture, incandescent color palette, and gestural energy, qualities particularly valued in contemporary abstraction.