Art Story

In "De beperktheid van een oneindige verticale", Roger Raveel depicts a round pillar that appears to rise from behind a wall. A light blue color palette with white "spots" dominates the pictorial surface, creating a sense of vibrancy, light, and openness. In the distance, a darker blue is visible, possibly referencing the sea-a classic symbol of infinity. The work, as is often the case within Raveel's contemplative oeuvre, is open to multiple interpretations. The composition might suggest a tension between the truncated verticality of the pillar, which abruptly ends against a white block (ceiling), and the elusive, expansive horizontal space of the sea. There is also a subtle contrast between the two red lines in the painting: one, seemingly truncated in a vertical manner, and the other running horizontally across the painting, respectively striped and solid. As Raveel once said: "I want to paint reality as it presents itself to me." This work demonstrates how reality can be both constrained and (un)graspable.