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'In the work of Stefaan van Biesen an associative solidity has arisen between thinking, acting, environment and well-being. Formulated as a question: 'how do our thoughts manifest themselves via acts in our environment and to what extent do they contribute to our well-being?' (Stef Van Bellingen, 2006).
The body is experienced as an influential instrument, a subject that feels out its environment and resonates out of a sensitive thinking. The body thus moves in an optical and emotional field out of a panoramic perspective, a sanctuary.
'Today we discover that thinking is a physical matter (…). Nowadays the embodied nature of subjectivity is emphasized. The body is thinking. I do not stand knowing, distant in this world. Through the body I rather have an understanding, a proximity with this world.' (‘The anarchistic body’, Francis Smets, 2004).
Stefaan van Biesen’s way of thinking is in a current way in keeping with the nomadic aspect of the renaissance artists, who travelled all over Europe. Dürer is a striking example of this. These journeys were art projects, in which streams of thoughts, drawings and other artefacts arose from encounters. These journeys were laboratories of thoughts. Knowledge transformed into an impassioned knowledge. Stefaan van Biesen shows this lab. Notes, artefacts and drawings embellish his journey.
Van Biesen is a landscape artist. This does not mean that he spends his days painting idyllic nature scenes. No, the landscape artist works with the landscape, the environment. He integrates nature in his art or communicates with it by means of his art. In his artistic vision concepts like body-mind, nature-culture, ecology-economy, are no longer considered to be irreconcilable. He's devoting an important part of his artistic activity to exchanges and collaborations with other artists and experts from various disciplines. Stefaan van Biesen worked as an artist in Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Brazil and China.