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Octave Landuyt
Born 1922 in Ghent Landuyt, Octave, Belgian painter,
born in Ghent in 1922. Innovator and sole representative
of current plastic art characterized by an extraordinary
speculative, emotional, and at times lyrical and often
vitriolic content. This universal Fleming, son of Uylenspiegel
and Verhaeren, is as much at ease in lost civilizations
as in our own robotized world. Whether in pre-Colombian
cities or in Tibetan remples, he is everywhere at home.
No myth, no spiritualist concept is a child of both
his own and of all times. The fantastic world in which
he moves is one of a superb and devouring splendour.
The anxiety he expresses taps our deepest questionings.
But it is undoubtedly in his power as a medium, the
basic ingredient of all his works, whether drawings,
canvases, sculptures, ceramics or jewellery, that we
perhaps find Landuyt's true secret, the secret of which
Emile Langul said that it never fails to escape us.
An inspired medium, author of a vision of man and his
destiny which both deforms and synthesizes, of man whom
he magnifies not without at times a trait of liberating
humour, Landuyt "can be read in all languages and
all latitudes". Distinctions
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