Lukas Mutsaerts

Luk Mutsaerts is a Belgium based painter whith interest in our "˜symbolic order' as well as in art history. Strongly influenced by photography and digital images, this results in a mixture of old and new elements with emphesis on the essence and of purification and abstraction of the image. His paintings can be seen as "˜contemporary landscapes'. His work tells stories about space.
Internet images as well as snapshots are used; images are abstracted and become "˜the surface of our daily reality' while a play of reflection and transparency diversificates the image.

I am an autodidact as painter and studied for bio-engineer and urban planner as well as antropology...the contempory 'symbolic' western culture is of main interest for my art.,