ANTILOPE GALLERY
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.