springeensintheair Painting

Marc (1972) is an autodidactic artist. His passion for creating art originates from his background as a graffiti artist. From the mid 1980s up to the beginning of the 1990s Marc was a graffiti and character designer. What typified him during this period was his in-depth research in the styles, context and movements of the graffiti art-form. During the mid 1990s he gained new interest in the Cobra movement (Cobra Museum) . Although there is a 50 year difference between the start of both movements, according to Marc, there are a lot of similarities between the graffiti movement and Cobra art. The directness of form in the characters and the exclusion of concessions with the established order especially make the combination of both art movements ideal for an artist like Marc. With passion, he starts his own experiment using styles and techniques from both eras. The result is a fusion of Cobra and graffiti art. The final result of an art work is not defined. The only goal is to create colourfull, joyfull and powerfull images.