Biography

1936

° 29 June 1936 Boom, Belgium (brickmakers’ festive day)

1956

first reliefs, collages and small sculptures

1957

honorable mention 'Prize Young Belgian Painting 1956' - Groot wit

1958

experiments with colour and materials, mostly zinc and iron

first personal exhibition in “Les Contemporains” - Brussels (15 - 27/2/58)

1959

works with pulverized brick in filler - drawing in Indian ink during military service member G58 Hessenhuis, Antwerp

1960
1961

reliefs and bas-reliefs + a few paintings without extra materials

1962

reliefs with bicycle chains - Rood punt

1963

apart from the reliefs also deeper boxes - larger sizes, more variety in materials, some of them in bright colours

1964

Altaar om de schijnheiligheid te bestrijden: first monumental work and first protest work (exhibition Mouvement Phases - Museum Elsene)

1965

Het hemels hinkspel (Berthe-Art prize)

1966

De Russische roulette: first environment: Gallery Saint Laurent, - Brussels, (5 - 24/2/66)

De engelse soldaat precursor of a series of iron sculptures, next to assemblages, objects and sculptures, mainly in wood

1969

Het grote orgel (KMSK Antwerp)

1973

Burger Lijken Stand

Het concilie van Wounded Knee (Flemish Community): environment with the Indian as the central figure, symbol of the oppressed, the destitute, the dishonored, the abused, the mutilated... the outcasts of the earth

1974

De zonnewagen (open-air museum Middelheim, Antwerp)

1975

more protest works against religions and against various types of pollution

1977

Handelingen XXVI, 24 Ge Raaskalt... (Free University Brussels)

1980

De laatste dag, als het heidens oog vol is (Ugent) - donated by R. & C. De Neef

1982

first Portret van Paul Klee (fascination for Klee's work from the very beginning)

1984

Gepantserd strandkarretje
simultaneously anti-war and anti-violence as well as an ode to Breughel

1986

Prize 'Louis-Paul Boon'

Watou: Waarom vermoordt ge niet alle Indianen met Yperiet?

7 works to Max Ernst (the number 7 plays an important part from then on)

1987

Belgica underground station Belgica (Brussels)

1988

J’ai rendez-vous avec vous
(to my friend Walter Van Herp)

after another Portret van Paul Klee follows a whole series of greetings to: Schlemmer, Duchamp, Picabia, Rothko, Broodthaers, Jul De Roover, Florence Nightingale

1992
1993

later followed by Marlène Dietrich, Malevitch, then in 1993 Cox, Fautrier, Miro, Puni; from literature the South-American authors: Marquez, Galeano, Arguedas, Llosa and European authors: Van Ostayen, Marguerite Duras, Thomas Bernhardt, a.o. later still: a.o. Soutine, Cornell, Schoonhoven, Mondriaan, Morandi, Jawlensky, Gauguin, Delahaut, de Staël and the aboriginal Rover Thomas

the first greetings to Paul Joostens date from 1967, the most recent ones from 2004: Groeten aan nonkel Paul

1995

clean-cut architectural sculptures in Cor-Tensteel Gesloten toren and assemblages in iron such as Libertad I & II (Free University Brussels), Spoor

1997

(s)lang  exhibition Cultureel Centrum Spinoy (Mechelen)

1998

Zij leren lezen: Conscience Building (Flemish Community, Brussels)

Zonne wijzer : Zonnebeke (roundabout De Brieke)

Gravensteen - Grafsteen (Gravensteen, Ghent in cooperation with Willie Verhegge)

2001
2005

Livresse environment in collaboration with Demian (Antwerp 2003)

from 2001 to 2005 assemblages and collages - uses more colours in his work: especially red

Eerste brief aan William Faulkner (collection KSMKA)

2006

exhibition in the Royal Library in Brussels

from 2005 onwards numerous objects: extensive exhibition (Braempavillion Middelheim open air museum Antwerp 2009)

Rood-groene scene, Stap, Drietrap

2008

moves Opgedragen aan de steenbakkers (1966) to an old brickyard building in De Schorre in Boom

2010

very simple structures (maquettes?)
Openbouw 3 after a visit to Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau

in reaction to these complicated structures De toren van Soutine

2011

suddenly a.o. again 7 collages: Brief aan Paul Klee, Brief aan Chaim Soutine, brief aan Giorgio Morandi, brief aan Kurt Schwitters, Brief aan Joseph Cornell, brief aan Constantin Brancusi and Brief aan Wassily Kandinsky

2012

7 boxes with ordnance maps from WWI

book: From 1914 (and before) to 1918 (and later) with 28 collages

De trap naar het huis van Soutine

2013

Huis van Soutine (7 objects)
O. Schlemmer beweging (7 boxes)
Stoel van Soutine (7 objects)
W.O. ’14-’18 (7 boxes)

2014

double abstract collages Rose collage
Groeten aan Van Tongerloo and Groeten aan Georges Braque
Quarantaine (box with 40 small drawers)
+ objects + 50 collages ongeloof (postcard size)

2015

2015 smaller works Stippel lijn
double collages Rode schijf
5 (out of 7) new letters to William Faulkner
21 postcard collages

2016

2 final letters to William Faulkner (series 2)
works dedicated to Georges Vantongerloo
trap voor de Yanomami Indianen

2017

book collages: 4 blaadjes and journal pour rire stairs

2018

meerdere werken met plafonneerlatten i.v.m. het werk van Soutine en een bezoek aan Céret in Frankrijk waar Soutine vrij veel schilderijen maakte.

daarnaast enkele kleurrijke werken en 2 objecten in de vorm van een theater les plus grands succes en Huis van Soutine in Céret

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