Works from 2006 to 2017

In his works on canvas created over the past twelve years, René Daniëls often returns to his paintings from the period before 1987. He
adopts ciphers deriving from these works but uses them to develop a different, unprecedented language. Changing pictorial
constellations express an existential situation of non-communication and isolation but are also pushed beyond these limits into a
realm of extraordinary painterly possibilities. The present publication accompanies an exhibition of René Daniëls’s work from 2006 to
2017 at Reset in Borgloon, Belgium, curated by Ulrich Loock, who is also the editor of this book. It marks the first time that the
paintings Daniëls has produced since his devastating stroke in 1987 have been presented as a substantial and autonomous body of
work.