I was born in Blankenberge in Belgium in December 1970.
I have been living and working in Paris for the last 3 years.

Text in French at:

http://moons.fr/2008/08/01/quelques-notes-sur-ma-demarche/

Forewarning: I dont make Chinese art, kitsch art, pop art, joke art, new, post or hyper something art, psycho art, conceptual art and I dont and I will probably never refer to Kasimir Malevitch, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys,or the Fluxus movement to justify my work.

In art, it has to do with innovation and invention.

Invention is the keyword of abstraction. Freedom of creation is its constant, and poetry its oxygen.

To innovate in art doesnt necessary mean to bury the past. In any case, this is not my point of view. For me, it means trying to make a small contribution to the old painting tradition, as old as the history of the humanity. It means trying to follow the example of great painters. My reference points in the abstract painting of the last fifty years are Alfred Manessier, Ren Bazaine, Maurice Estve, Julius Bissier, Joseph Lacasse, Maria Viera da Silva, Paul Jenkins, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Gerhard Richter to name only the most famous.

As regards society, the painter must at least show respect for people and shouldnt impose his bad mood or his anxiety, vain narcissism, immature impulses, a sectarianism, pedantry because in fact what does society have to expect from painters, if not at least to decorate walls or to offer windows to a fantastic dream, a poetry, to something great, strong and beautiful and finally confront their own humanity.

I make abstract painting (totally non-figurative) because Im fascinated by the huge realm of possibilities it gives, captivated by the imagination and the creativity of the human being. Im not interested by the imitation of reality. The matter in abstract painting is the creation, it is to cease resisting to the creation impulse, it is to build a whole universe with powerful colours and captivating forms. Abstract painting is so other and without references that it can cause vertigo. I feel it is a universal language which is more comparable to music than to figurative painting itself.

Painting, even abstract painting, still have to convey and illustrate ideas. Either in my watercolours or in my acrylics on paper, my message, or my favourite topic is the same, that is to say, the inexorable passing of time, the change, the crumbling, the ephemerality, the degradation of everything and its joyful acceptance, an antique way of materialism in harmony with the universe and this without transcendence (or fairy story), because Nature is given to our comprehension from the smallest to the biggest phenomenon.

Laurent Moons