Martin Mangelinck

Born in the XX in Belgium. Worked in London and working today in Belgium. Personnal Exhibitions since 1997. Private and public collections.

My whole creative act consists in paying my attention to the body, to the human figure. The city of the XXIst century registers record rates of population density, noise, pollution, goods, exorbitant rents, tight spaces, without any real rather artificial nature. I look at this body, I observe it. The sculptural form obtained by my work is linked to the body just like conversations; bodies dramatize, stretch, see, feel, reject, expand, contort, enjoy, mutilate, disgorge, seek, copy, transform, print, hide, fall apart, shift, implore, ... The human and his model of society focus the meaning of life on frenzied virtual consumerism and seem to divert the individual from questions of well-being and identity. His body expresses itself through the unconscious, takes on sculptural forms of opposition. The report seems to be made, the written form. What then is my role as an artist to play in the city? What alternative can I offer? In my creative act I try to reintroduce new spaces, significant for "the human figure". Messrs.
 "Art is a cry to combat suffocation" F. Bacon


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Master degree in Fine Arts - Sculpture

From now and. since exhibitions.
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CH - ZURICH - SWISS ART EXPO . August 2020.
USA - MIAMI ART WEEKS. December 2019
B - MAMAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Résistances, Out of ACA, Liège, Belgium. 2013
MUSEE CURTIUS, Curtius Circus, Liège Belgium
2012
D - DOCUMENTA 13 OFF. Implantation libre de 13 micro-sculptures spirituelles « men in the city ». Kassel, Deutschland Solo Exhibitions
2005
B - Liège, Palissart, Spiritual Door, Belgium. Second phasis.
2004
UK - Charing Cross Station, Monumental project, London,
2003
B - Liège ville de, Palissart, Spiritual Door, Belgium. Acquisition.
1998
B - Galerie Le Moderne, Furia Express, Liège, photographies, Belgique
1997
B - FNAC Liège, forum, août, exposition photographique, Belgique
F - 1996 Collection, critique d’art Alain Bosquet.