90 x 90 cm
Lopha Christagalli
oil on canvas
70 x 70 cm
Fossils
oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Astrea
oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
oil on canvas
oil on canvas
oil on canvas
oil on canvas
oil on canvas
STEVEN TUERLINCKX
As his name suggests, Steven belongs to the large Tuerlinckx family, which for decades has lent its name to printing houses in Aarschot and the surrounding area. That background is visible in his artistic creations. Steven was born in Aarschot on 11 July 1929 and after all these years has become completely rooted in the Hageland. His studies at the Art Printing School in Ghent, the Drawing School of Aarschot (later the academy) and the Academy of Antwerp, where he published the art magazine “Pijpkruid”, made Steven a true craftsman in all disciplines of printing. In 1957 he married Nele Thijs. Nele and Steven live in the Amerstraat, and have 5 children and 13 grandchildren.
His work cannot be pinned down to a single -ism. It is colourful, flamboyant and also strongly symbolic. Tuerlinckx practises linocut and pen drawing with a certain originality, and likewise tries to give abstract painting an important role. What strikes us in his contemporary work is the austere colouring combined with an interplay of lines that produces pleasing effects. During the 1960s he worked on a collection of ex libris (a bookplate, an artistic signature with which the bibliophile makes his books recognisable). Steven soon belonged to the top ten of Belgian ex libris makers. Thanks to his contacts with other artists from all over Europe he succeeded in building up a rich collection of ex libris. No influence of other graphic artists or painters can be found in his work. He does, however, feel interest in and admiration for the work of the Aarschot natives Maurice Haccuria, Juul van Gaubergen, Flor Hermans and Emiel Bergen, while he puts contemporary artists such as Theo Humbled, Marie-Rose Lannoit, Goderis and Marstboom in the places he has chosen for them.
He exhibited several times as part of a group, 6 times in Graz (Austria), Aarschot, Willebroek, Mechelen, Herselt and so on. He also exhibited on his own in Mechelen, Aarschot and Averbode.
