Anti-catalogue in form of a newspaper in which the artist analyses and documents preliminary works and art pieces exhibited at Air de Paris gallery in 2014.
Kempens is the name of the artist's home region. It is also the title of a local newspaper for which Jef Geys used to work. He now uses the name of this newspaper for his own periodical, which he sees as an educational and artistic outlet for his own critics and researches. This edition of Kempens notably covers Cow passports and !Women's questions!, two series displayed at the gallery Air de Paris in 2014.
Published following the exhibitions of the artist at Air de Paris, from January to March 2014, and Cneai, Chatou, from February 8, to June 22, 2014.
See also
Jef Geys – Kempens Informatieboek.
Jef Geys (1934-2018) was a Flemish artist. Both intimate and of social concern, his work is a permanent articulation between culture and triviality. In Geys' works, the private aspect of a personal event is always hidden within a collective effort. If the artist always intervened and experimented locally, his artwork is nonetheless carrying a global meaning. Since 1971 the artist had published the newspaper Kempsen Informatieblad, a documentary publication which accompanies every Geys' exhibition. Jef Geys represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale in 2009.
