Project Description

Oil on panel

Dimensions : 65 cm x 48 cm

Signed lower right Hock

Composition ferovial

Jean-Pierre HOCK (Brussels, 14/11/1931 – 08/08/2012)

Painter, engraver, designer, graphic designer, sculptor, self-taught.
Took courses at Saint-Luc in Brussels and at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. Lived in the Far East and visited South America, Central America, Italy and Yugoslavia.
First exhibition at the Gallery “Breughel” in Brussels in 1955. Lebon Prize (1964).

Predilection for figures. The colour, rhythm and movement characterize his work. Evolves from modernist tendencies towards abstraction and expressionism. Was influenced by pop art and fresco art. His subjects are sometimes allegorical. He painted a series of Tributes to Picasso”.
Works and exhibits in Latin America and the Far East. Exhibited at the Gallery “The Forge” and has opened his studio to the public twice a year for the years 80.

Kaleidoscope exhibition at the Crépuscule Orange Gallery in Rhode Saint Geneste – Belgium from 7 the 21 November 1989.

“For many years my public has been invited to visit exhibitions, each built on a particular theme.: concept of the necessary homogeneity of a period, somehow. But there is also a series of research belonging to different periods of my painting. These are the images that the Galerie Crépuscule Orange is currently showing. Like, drypoint and Indian ink drawings, watercolors and egg temperas, oils on paper or charcoal enhanced with casein travel from America to Tuscany and from the painter’s studio to the Sea of ​​Storms….

Works at the Brussels Museum. Mentioned in BAS II and in “Two Centuries of Signature of Artists from Belgium”.

Sources : Arto - Biographical Dictionary plastic arts in Belgium.

Site internet : http://lucantheunis.be

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