Secura encourages artistic expression. Each year, works are bought of an artist we consider interesting. At the Secura offices an exhibition is organized to display the artist’s work.

2010: LUC DONDEYNE

Luc Dondeyne was born in Genk in 1963.
Today he lives and works in Kapelle-op-den-Bos.
He studied Printmaking at Sint Lukas in Brussels and afterwards Painting at the Academy of Anderlecht and Sint Lukas.
Since 1988 he is teaching at the Municipal Art Institute of Ghent.

Luc Dondeyne has both feet planted firmly in daily reality, a quality that shows in his paintings: they seem to have an immediately recognizable quality. But appearances can be deceptive; there always seems to be something wrong with the trivial details upon which most of his paintings are based... a vague feeling that has bothered most of us at some point, namely alienation.
There is more going on in our daily reality than can be seen at first glance, though we are unable to put a finger on it...
Dondeyne’s paintings offer us a way to give definition to that vague feeling: by looking through reality. But looking through things takes effort. And practice. And distance. And patience. And guts. As it happens, painting also has all these qualities.
The reality that Luc Dondeyne shows us can only be painted.