Publications

From Virtuality to Reality
Hans Vandeschilde finished his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Den Haag, with Auke de Vries as his mentor. After that, he continued his work for one year in San Fransisco, as a visiting professor at the San Francisco Art Institute, meanwhile exhibiting his impressive paintings.
Back in The Netherlands, Vandeschilde continued exhibiting his paintings as well as his photography. He was involved in places where young artists were given the opportunity to experience new possibilities and to exhibit their work. In this period Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, amongst others, collected his work.
From 1994 Vandeschilde developed his artwork in the new digital techniques. He became a specialist in 3-dimensional possibilities on the computer. From 1999, he became also an active member in the board of The Institute for Multimedia in The Netherlands, where artists could learn how to switch from the 'old' to the 'new' media, to express their ideas, or to find out how to combine both worlds.
From 2005 Vandeschilde works in Belgium, where he develops a digital world of virtual models.
Characteristic in his work is the abstraction of the world around him, or what might have happened in that world. The models seem to refer to famous historic images or positions, but they grow more and more into abstract figures, so that, at the end, the images that remain only refer to what they were before.
The most important difference with his former work is that nothing is reality anymore, it all became virtual, but the viewer might still experience reality.
Annelies Habers, 2007

Work in private collection