Overview of 40 years fine arts, with contributions from Marc Ruyters, Eric Rinckhout and Koen Leemans.0Kris Fierens (° 1957) uses the character of a preliminary study or a sketch as an enduring thing. Or, in their possibility they imitate the character of a preliminary study. Reality and emotion reach a virtual zero point. The gestures that he makes simply become the 'objets trouvés'. The object 'on his own' is never present. It's the included matter that enables him to save his dream. Traces of something that still needs to happen. Of which a disappearing memory can already be hold.00This book is not an exhibition catalogue, but will be presented at the opening of the artist's exhibition at De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium (21.03.-24.05.2020).