Jan Gielens

Aguila (Jan Gielens, 15th January 1937), artist and founder of the "probability reality", a new tendency in contemporary art. His works consists of oil paintings , drawings, monumental installations, conceptual architecture, naval design and computer art .
Aguila studied visual and monumental art at the Higher Institute for Arts and Sciences in St Lucas, Brussels under such artists as Jos De Maegd and Maurits Van Saene.
During the last year of his art education Aguila came to the conclusion that rather than focus on color, priority should be given to strong compositional elements and the contact the painting has with the environment, thus extending the composition of the work into the three dimensional environment.
In 1974, Aguila was invited to exhibit his paintings at the University of Ghent and to give some conferences, also at other European universities.
Former conservator of the Museum for Modern Art in Brussels, Mrs. Phil Mertens, became interested in Aguila's way of painting, and recognized in him the founder of a new tendency in contemporary art , called "The Multidimensional Transparent Art".
Later on, Aguila was invited to work as a full time teacher and lecturer at Cool International School in Brussel...

Aguila studies visual arts and monumental art at the Higher Institute St Lucas in Brussels (Univrsity of Louvain), where some famous artists like De Maagd and Van Saenen were among his teachers.
He also studies first industrial design at Ter Kameren in Brussels and then in Holland and finally is having some practice in Germany.