Vernissage Ptrik (Patrick Leenaers) 2023 & Degustatie Wine&Shine wijnen
Vernissage Ptrik (Patrick Leenaers) 2023 & Degustatie Wine&Shine wijnen
31 oktober van 18u tot 21u & 1 november van 14u tot 19u
Op 31 oktober en 1 november toont Patrick Leenaers (Ptrik) zijn nieuwe werken : schilderijen, beelden en andere creaties. Uiteraard steeds met 'zijn' herkenbare 'Mennekes'. www.ptrik.be
Tegelijk zal ook het project, i.s.m. Rotary Hasselt Hasaluth en UHasselt, voorgesteldworden : een groot werk van 6m op 2 m dat vanaf maart 2024 zal prijken op de muur van de oude gevangenis in Hasselt. De opbrengst hiervan gaat naar verschillende projecten ter bestrijding van intrafamiliaal geweld. Zijn tentoonstelling loopt vervolgens tot eind februari 2024. www.nomoreexcuses.be
Tijdens de vernissage toont ook Katerin Theys een aantal prachtige werken uit haar laatste mode collectie. Katerin, Limburgse maar woont en werkt al 10 jaar in Hong Kong, ontwierp in 2019 haar eerste mode collectie. Stijlvolle creaties, draagbare mode met intrigerende designs geïnspireerd uit haar leven in België en Azië. www.katerintheys.com
Wine & shine zal u tijdens de vernissage een degustatie aanbieden van de lekkerste wijnen ! www.wineandshine.online
Patrick Leenaers
Patrick Leenaers (Ptrik) is born in 1968 in Tongeren, the oldest city of Belgium. In his childhood he already had a creative mind and he loved to make small, even tiny little things. In his teenage years, he went to the Art Academy in Hasselt and Tongeren (Belgium), but school implied to many rules for Patrick. He abandoned Art for many years and started only professionally in his forties. The little ‘things’ became a definite form, his signature piece of Art: sitting men. From a tiny few centimeters to finally more than one meter!
As he lacked rules in school, he also lacks rules in his Art-works. He likes to make pieces and sculptures using old materials from demolished buildings to natural wood, stone, … But always with his signature small sitting men. He also paints. Sometimes using bright colours, sometimes only brown and white. Different techniques, using different materials to paint. Often using strange materials as metal, old books, even money bills from all the world wide countries he visited. And of course never without his signature small sitting men.
His art expositions are always a mixture of very different things, pieces, colors, etc. It is never boring. Because that is how his mind works. But always one thing makes it very clear who is the artist of the work: the little sitting men, in Flemish called ‘mennekes’.
