Artist Spotlight - Jean Doulliez — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

La Louvière, Hainaut, Belgium, 1943
Professor of « Theory of Architecture » and « History of Architecture” » at the Higher Institute of Architecture (ISAI - Mons) to 2008.

Lecturer, University of Liege, Faculty of Applied Sciences until June 2006.
Lecturer at the Higher Institute of Architecture "La Cambre" (ISAE), Brussels, (1978-79).
Lecturer at the Higher Institute of Architecture "Victor Horta" (ISABr), Brussels, (1982-83).
Author of several books, articles and papers dealing with themes related to architecture.

Practice drawing, painting (charcoal, ink, pastel, oil, acrylic and mixed media).
He participated in numerous group exhibitions from 1975: La Louvière, Manage, Haine-St-Paul, Liege, Spa, Chaudfontaine, Nivelles, Tournai, Braine-le-Comte, Mechelen, Seraing, Hornu, Mons, Verviers, Dour, Ecaussinnes, De Panne, Vierset, Brussels, Nieuwpoort and in solo exhibitions : Paris, Mons, Aubel, Verviers, Visé.

Artist Statement

How to fill an aesthetic obsession? By creating without conditions, without repetitions, an original world while allowing itself stylistic and technical variations.
Place to the imaginary, on the border of figuration and abstraction so that reading is not immediate.

Nothing must be given to see without a part of ambiguity and mystery. The speed of execution is part of this process: it is the love of the sketch and the unfinished. The ephemeral instant of a world in eternal change. Technical research mixes charcoal, pencil, markers, ink, pastel, oil or acrylic.

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In this way, the style is realized between expressionism, lyrical abstraction and Neo-Cobra.
In the spontaneity of the raw work, in the evocation rather than in the realism, here is a presentation between lines and surfaces inspired by nature, time flowing and existential concerns.

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