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Guy Vandenbranden is one of the main pioneers of Abstract Art in Belgium after World War II. From the late 1950s, he is involved in several artists groups: from the Brussels Art Abstrait, Formes and Art Construit to Jef Verheyen’s New Flemish School. Vandenbranden eventually sticks to Constructivism, that is to ‘cold’ or geometric abstraction. At the beginning of his artistic career he avoids each form of colouring and uses monumental, rigid black-and-white compositions. In contrast, in his later work he experiments extensively with a very personal and bold colour palette. Since his death in 2014, Antwerp’s Callewaert Vanlangendonck Gallery has been looking after the artist’s archive and legacy.