Agnès Van Ransbeeck has a unique place in the varied Flemish tradition of the visual arts. Stone, bronze, marble, steel and Belgian bluestone conjure a male world of raw strength, monumental heaviness and the overpowering of it all. A cutter and tamer of images.
Since she finished her art education warm bronze seems to be the favourite material for giving gestalt to her dream world.
Adverse to trends and the related commercialism, she removes herself from social contact, perfectly honest with herself, in search of new, additional and enriching materials and forms. The tension in her work increases, her intrinsic duality becomes more and more visible.
She experiences inner solitude as a space in which she can exist and which she fills with an almost eccentric interest in other art-forms. She loves architecture, music, cookery, theatre, opera, is an avid reader of biographies, prose-Yukio Mishima is one of her favourite authors- and poetry in particular. Her intense relationship with poetry is mainly expressed in the titles of her works. Her titles, often perfect lines of poetry, give a hint, a specific impulse to look. At the same time they produce proof of her love for literature and form a poetic support for her entire oeuvre.
Agnès Van Ransbeeck is and works honestly. No capriciousness, no false airs. She always tries to renew herself, not to stagnate, and passionately seeks the appropriate image-language for her experienced and desired dreams.
Koen Stassijns en Ivo van Strijtem, poets.