crying monk Sculpture

Born in Brussels in 1968. Artist, painter, installer since 1990. The work of Jean-Marc De Pelsemaeker (1968) is one of the forms of what you could call free figuration. The artist is fascinated by the energy that emerges from life, by its good or bad use. His creations are the result of a meticulous observation of the History of Art and of the behaviour of alive beings(animal, human, vegetable). They lead the spectator to ask him questions about wrong ways of humanity (violence, religious extremism, hunting, weapons) but also about its more beautiful achievements. He transposes this vision of the world by the use of an black lines alphabet inspired of European and Eastern calligraphy as well as flat tints of colors that become sometimes very sharp. He uses acrylic in his paintings, and it is sometimes sensitive to the ultraviolet rays (fluorescent, phospho-rescent). He also applies gold sheets and covers surfaces with an obsessional automatic writing. This true practice of Benedictine monk consists in as well intensifying the report/ratio of fragmentation of the light with respect to pictorial surface as with exorcise this fear of the vacuum which in addition characterizes the whole work of the artist.All these means allow him to capture energy on the canvas. After several collaborations (Brother Inkjet, CIBA Vision,), his stylized drawings, and in particular the intensification saturated with the black lines which give on painted surface a convulsive dimension, have been the object for four seasons of the collection of accessories World of Wonder just as they were adopted for its collections by the fashion designer Jean-Paul Knott. Jean-Marc collaborates also with the artist and serigrapher Pascal Durant. They work together on various installations and customi-sations: pieces of furniture, tissues, wood, etc. that they have presented in many exhibitions.
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