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BEHIND
THE LINES
dialogue on the thread of a colorful world
finissage 14/11 - 18h-22h
expo until 24/11/2024
Wednesday to Sunday 12h – 18h or by appointment
“Behind the Lines” brings together 9 Belgian and international artists who have in common the ability to juggle lines, threads and the straightness of materials in compositions vibrant with color and emotion. Mastering a wide range of original techniques, these men and women fashion often three-dimensional works whose colourful language speaks to many of our senses, whether they are placed on the ground, suspended in the air or hung on walls. These works also carry meaning, translating better than words the states of mind of the artists who created them.
JOAN COSTA
Trained in Palma, Siena and Carrara, Joan Costa (Palma de Mallorca) was strongly influenced in his early years by Talayotic sculpture. His early works feature large, gravid volumes rooted in the earth, but he gradually refined his style to reinforce the lightness of his pieces, which are increasingly organic and ethereal, undulating and light. He continues to use the marble with which he discovered his soul as a sculptor in Carrara, but never ceases to explore the possibilities of molding and the use of cast iron, as well as other noble materials such as bronze, aluminum, steel and wood. From 2002, he began to use color and the purest chromatism, often obtained with lithographic inks. This resulted in a substantial body of abstract work that complements his three-dimensional oeuvre. Rooted in the Mediterranean, his source of inspiration, his scenography denounces the irreversible destruction of nature.
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DUGA
DUGA (aka Christian Dugardeyn – Genappe, Belgium) is an artist of emotion and free expression. After a spell at the Beaux-Arts, he was able to emancipate himself from the artistic techniques taught and let his instinctive emotions (re)speak for themselves. He paints and sculpts viscerally, in a state of regression, on the bangs of contemporary artistic trends. He gives free rein to his emotions through a variety of techniques, with drawing, painting and sculpture remaining his preferred mediums. DUGA is obsessed with the representation of the human figure, with human relationships and conflicts, with the difficulties our civilization is going through. He feels the need to start again from scratch, from a primitive stage, from a violent and childlike simplicity of expression, to return to the sources of mankind and to disregard current artistic knowledge. What he proposes is a return to the primitive arts and raw expression.
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ÑACO FABRÉ
Ñaco Fabre (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) began his training at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios Artisticos de Palma, which he continued with painters Juan José Deudero and Ellis Jacobson and trips to London, Venice and Paris. Oil, graphite, charcoal and vinyl are the materials with which he brings to life the balance found between geometric forms and subtle gesture, through planes of color and graphics, reflecting his lyrical vision of landscape and nature. The artist has integrated the presence of geometry into his language, from the choice of format and size of his works to the appearance of figures in his compositions.
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TONI GARAU
Toni Garau(Sóller, Spain) began his professional career as a graphic and industrial designer. His first exhibition was at the modernist museum in Can Prunera (Sóller), and from then on he began working with various galleries and curators around the world, including Belgium, Switzerland, Japan and Dubai. The artist is deeply linked to the history of his village, Sóller, which developed an important textile industry in the early 20th century. His work reinterprets the use of a historic Majorcan material, thread, to bring the island’s history to public attention. The yarns used in his works come from the village’s old factories, paying tribute to the work of the women workers of the time.
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JOSÉPHINE
After 17 years as a secondary school science teacher, Joséphine (aka Myriam Struman – Waterloo, Belgium) has been exploring her passion for painting on canvas since 2015 and Plexiglas photosculpture since 2018. Her talent for combining colors and textures and her scientific background make her paintings sparkling, colorful works, always arranged in a harmonious, geometric whole. Starting with warm colors and a structured composition, Joséphine’s work is a blend of several materials: acrylic paint, concrete and Plexiglas, which has become her signature material. his artistic signature. His inspirations are manifold, but always profoundly Belgian.
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VALOU KERVYN
Valou (aka Valérie) Kervyn discovered her passion for drawing and painting thanks to a workshop she had been attending every week since the age of 10. After studying art humanities, she went on to study graphic design at the École de Recherche Graphique (ERG) and the École du 75 (Brussels), followed by evening classes in illustration with Alain Goffin. In 2012, she rediscovered her first love, and happily returned to her studio. Since then, she has spent her days there, punctuated by colors, materials, movement, research and pleasure. Attracted by colors, shapes and textures. Curious about working with different materials and objects. Colors are layered, acrylics are worked with pallets, cardboard, wire, wire mesh… Emotions are stacked, too.
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MATHIJS SIEMENS
Born into a creative family, Mathijs Siemens (Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1982) produced numerous drawings during his teenage years, whose style evolved from street art to more figurative and surrealist forms. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts, he became more interested in architectural perspectives and the function of color and depth. At this time, Mathijs began working with different materials such as resin, wood and foam board, adding three-dimensional elements to his surrealist works. The next logical step was to free himself from all realistic limitations and take the plunge into abstract art. Today, he is developing techniques in which cotton thread is the most important material. By subjecting this fragile thread to maximum tension, he creates strong figurative compositions, where the space between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional merges. Sometimes with an almost hallucinatory or kinetic effect, often with an architectural layering.
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XAVIER STORMS
Xavier Storms sees himself as a sculptor of emotion, and introspection is his main source of inspiration.. Depuis toujours, il s’intéresse à l’art, visite des expositions et collectionne des œuvres… sans cependant créer lui-même. Il suit des études de psychologie et fait carrière dans des agences d’études de marché investiguant l’impact des émotions sur les comportements de consommation. En 2017, il participe à un workshop de sculpture en bronze. Il s’inscrit ensuite à l’académie de Heist-op-den-Berg et termine ses études de sculpture en 2022. Xavier travaille dans trois domaines distincts : les sculptures en bronze, les portraits et les installations. Ses œuvres se caractérisent non seulement par un style personnel, mais aussi, fort de son parcours en psychologie, par l’expression d’émotions fortes et de sentiments profonds.
