Location: atelier +3

Stefaan Van Akoleyen (b. 1962, Dendermonde) collects dead wood and other rejected material, and decorates it with shiny adhesive tape in base colours, to bring it back to life. With these ‘blood vessels’ he creates evocative painting-as-sculpture. The vivid, contrasting colours give his dynamic work a high pop art calibre. For The Raft. Art is (not) lonely he created an installation on a basis of five boards: an ode to spontaneity, to the power of an open mind and to beauty