I work mostly on paper ( sometimes on canvas). with pencil, charcoal, watercolor, gouache and oil painting. This visual work evolves into an abstraction.
For my installations I’ll use a mixed technique. My starting point is what the environment where I am evokes in me. Something from nature or an object in the room where I am.
My video-performance where the Act is registered arises from a connection with the environment where I am located, the tension, the interaction with myself.
Education
- Degree in art History K U L Belgium
- graduated free graphics screen printing ( 7 years part-time art teaching)
- graduated monumentale arts Antwerp
Artist Residences
- Italy Assisi 1989/90/91/92/93/94
- Italy Rome 2007 ( academia Belgica )
- Thailand - Chiang mai - Doi Saket in 2014
- Thailand - Chiang Mai - Doi Saket in 2015
- India - Varanasi 2017
- Finland - Kärismäki 2018
Books
The books that have been important for my work:
- Merleau-Ponty - La Phénoménologie de la perception, Paris, nrf, Gallimard, 1945
- Merleau-Ponty -L'Œil et l’esprit, Gallimard, 1960
- Peter De Graeve - Frederich Nietzsch, Chaos En (Ver)Wording, Sun, 2003
- Francois Cheng - Vide et plein : le langage pictural chinois, Éditions du Seuil, 1979
- Francois Cheng -Cinq méditations sur la beauté, Albin Michel, 2006
- Francis Smets Lof der onwennigheid, 2011
- Francis Smets De vleugels van de weemoed, een pleidooi voor schoonheid, 2014