The Walter & Nicole Leblanc Foundation is proud to present the exhibition Resonance by Walter Leblanc and Keisuke Matsuura.

It is the very first curatorial project of the Foundation that is organised in-house. For this exhibition project, Japanese artist Keisuke Matsuura (°1970, Kyoto) was given carte blanche to imagine a conversation between his works and those of Leblanc selected from the Foundation’s collection on the theme of natural energy fields.



Walter Leblanc (1932–1986) is an important Belgian figure of European post-war art. Over the years, he has built an extremely coherent oeuvre staging light without artifice or any disrupting elements. Within the international, neo-avant-garde network of the Nouvelle Tendance, ZERO, op art, kinetic art, concrete art and (neo)constructivism, Leblanc gained both national and international recognition. After the death of his widow, Nicole Leblanc, the Walter Leblanc Foundation was founded in 2006 as a non-profit entity to bring greater awareness of the oeuvre of Walter Leblanc and, as Jan Hoet wrote, “to do justice to an artist who deserves a place in the international pantheon of art”. 



Giving voice to an artist of a younger generation—such as Keisuke Matsuura—is a great opportunity to create a new discourse but also to rediscover all the subtleties of Leblanc’s work and reassess its enduring topicality. Keisuke Matsuura discovered the artists of the ZERO movement during a trip to Europe, and their spirit would mark him and influence his future research. Inspired also by Walter Leblanc, his work lends itself particularly to this dialogue between two generations.



An immersive installation, Resonanz / Leblanc, has been created to mark the occasion and is visible in the Foundation’s garden. The artist revisits the work of Leblanc and leaves a statement that not only pays homage, but also opens a way forward towards new possibilities and challenges The work invites the viewer to experience an ever-changing composition of lines integrated within the surrounding natural world. The elementary geometric figure made of straps seems to create a stable tension, yet is moved by the forces of nature to produce changes in structure, colour, and even sound, in a work that echoes the kinetic research of Leblanc in the fields of light and space.

A fully illustrated exhibition catalogue accompanies the exhibition.