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Nicolas Wolkenar

 

1. Composite technique on 6 canvases acrylic, pastel, scraps of metal.
Six 80-centimetre-wide and 100-centimetre-high canvases (240-centimetre-wide and 200-centimetre-high together).
242-centimetre-wide and 202-centimetre-high metal framing.
Title : ële grand Ocre’ (Liège, 1998)
Photography taken by P. Houcmant.

2. Double structure made of Cor Ten steel - 2 x (100 x 100 x 10 centimetre).
Title : Mouvement- Inertie  (Liège, 1997).
Photography taken by P. Houcmant.

Painter and sculptor
Born in 1954 in Herve
Nationality : Belgian
Address : 2 rue Charles Morren B - 4000 Liège
Phone number : 0032 / 4-253.3.85
Studio : 39 rue Henri Bles B - 4000 Liège
Phone Number : 0032 / 4-226.16.00 - 4-226.16.55
Fax Number : 0032 / 4-224.21.55

Education :
-He studied at Saint Luc Fine arts School, Liège, monumental painting, Raymond JULIN’s studio.
-He went to live in Germany (Köln) for 2 years and then, came back to Belgium (Liège) where he started teaching at Saint Luc secondary school.
-He lived in the Netherlands (Maastricht) for 6 years and has been travelling throughout Europe, the United States, South America and Asia, looking for light.
-Nowadays he lives and works in Liège and regularly stays in Köln too.

Exhibitions :
-Since the mid-seventies he has organised his own exhibitions and has taken part to many group exhibitions not only throughout Belgium, but also in some European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, ...).
-His works have also been on display at some Festivals of Arts in France , the Netherlands, Great Britain and Romania.

His way of working :
The search for self-expression can use different ways, painting and sculpture are the disciplines chosen by Nicolas Wolkenar : " the difference between the mural (the canvas) and the three-dimensional object (the sculpture) is tiny " he says. He enjoys insisting especially on 3 similarities between both forms of art :

• the monumentality, i.e. format, specific materials (Cor Ten steel, concrete, wood,...), multiplicity of panels and volumes, works with an architectural function.
• the search for aesthetics : full experiments of the materials and their utter resistance, balance and imbalance games with the forms, transfer of the centre of gravity, link between the surface and its relief, between the volume and its relief
• the logical relationship between two and three-dimensional sizes when the painting leaves its environment and the wall too to conquer some space around it.

Extract from a text by Yves CAELEN

Large spaces of deep black which are breathing, bright, without anxiety. The light comes from the infinite and the irregular surface looks apparently smooth.
We can see shapes again and again, troubled and turned round, but they never look the same.
Peace and quiet, like in a desert. With Nicolas Wolkenar’s gaze in the distance.

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