Accomplished painter and sculptor grades Dalston with a new series of playful, throught-provoking, unreal presentations.
Ingrid Castelein has been exxibiting her work institutionally since the mid 80’s. She went on to be a professor at Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, where she studied painting and sculpture, where she stayed for 30 years. Exhibiting across Europe throughout the 70s and 80s, in Belgium and the Netherlands, solo and group exhibitions at museums like the Dhont-Dhaenens in Deurle, Museum voor Moderne Kunst in Hasselt, and Haags Centrum voor Actuele Kunst in Den Haag.
Spanning 50 years consisting of constant experimentation and process-oriented output, Castelein plays the game between ‘the painter-maker and the painter-viewer’, a conversation between artist and audience that plays with viewer expectations with a series of provocative moves and countermoves.
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Dreamland is for a friend. A long time he lay in a kind of sleep. Was he dreaming? Did he see light, colours, shapes, compositions, scenes? Or was everything dark? And then when he opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling with big black eyes – I mean with the pupils so wide open that they push aside the grey-blue iris – did he see past moments of life as if projected? An imagined future? There are only questions – these and many others. What life, confined inside your body? I know all my presentations of it to be unreal. But painting is also conjuring.
Ingrid Castelein
April 2025