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Andre Goezu
Born in Antwerp (Belgium) in 1939
Studied at the Royal Academy and
at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp,
of which he became a Laureate in 1963. He was a visiting
lecturer at the Royal Academy of Antwerp as well as
at the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris. He has lived and
worked in Paris since 1968. In 1991 he became a Member
of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature and Fine
Art of Belgium.
He was awarded several distinctions
among which the prize "Art of Engravings"
of the Province of Antwerp and the "Triennial Prize
for Painting" from the Province of Antwerp. His
works of art are permanently shown in several museums
and institutions: i.e. the Belgian State, the Royal
Belgian Library, the Print Museums of Brussels, Antwerp
and Paris, the Foundation Enzo Pagani in Milano, the
Museum ad Dimona in Israël, the Rockefeller Art
Center in New York and the "Musée de Montreal"
in Canada.
Over a hundred exhibitions in galleries,
cultural centers and institutions in Europe, America
and Japan.
His canvasses, etchings and monotypes are full of symbols
which he observed in the various regions of Belgium:
female profiles, birds flying, horses cavorting, dogs
barking, trees and twigs in transparent autumnal light.
Goezu's universe of poetical sensuality reveals an earthy
interrogation and intuitive penetration into the realms
of reality and illusion, as well as the past and the
future.
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