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His Art Explores Life’s Gray Areas

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His Art Explores Life’s Gray Areas

Hans Op de Beeck invites contemplation, solace and wonder with his enigmatic sculptures and installations — one of which includes a Delvaux handbag.

Hans Op de Beeck’s first dalliance with a luxury house feels a lot like his art — hushed, contemplative, and slightly under the radar.

Historic luxury handbag maker Delvaux, Belgium’s answer to Hermès, recently tapped him to create a major installation at its Brussels headquarters where its artisans, employees, business partners and invited guests of the brand can take in stands of bamboo, a rotating orrery, two young figures propped at opposite ends of a long lily pond and enigmatic still-life arrangements standing between workbenches.

Now Delvaux is widening the circle, installing Op de Beeck artworks at its Fifth Avenue flagship in New York, though without great fanfare. His ash-gray sculptures, which are disquieting, yet tender and steeped in wonder, go on display from around Nov. 9 until February 2027.

“The characters I depict in sculpture are usually drifting into a melancholic moment,” the Belgian artist explains. “It’s never a spectacular gesture or something dynamic… It’s about letting go, being adrift.”

Op de Beeck works across many mediums: sculptures, installations, video art, photography, animated films, drawings, paintings and short stories. (A primer on his visual universe is only a few clicks away on YouTube, where one can view his mesmerizing “Staging Silence” films for free.)

His dalliance with a luxury brand is new, and he’s the first to admit he’s not a fashion guy — with an important caveat.


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