Born in 1963 in Pola de Laviana (Spain).
Nationality : Belgian.
Address : 19, rue du Meunier. B - 4671 Barchon
Phone number : 00 32 (0)4 387 74 66.

Education

He studied Painting at St.Luc Fine Arts School of Liege in 1987.
He studied pedagogy at Jonfosse Pedagogy School in Liège.

Professional activities

He has worked in IKEA S.A. Belgium to design kitchen.

Awards and exhibitions

Laureate of the Bruxelles-Pekin contest (l'estampe belge : 1988)
First prize of painting at the Ixelles museum (Bruxelles 1988)
First prize of sculpture at the Charlemagne contest (1990).
Noted at the "Jeune peinture belge. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (1992).
Exhibition "15 artistes Belges" in Barcelona, Flux (1992)
First prize of design contest "Jeunes créateurs" Habitat (1997)
Noted at the contest of the "Centre de la gravure et de l'image imprimée", La Louvière (1998).
Noted of design contest "Jeunes créateurs" Habitat (1996 and 1998).
Biennale of Venise 1999 : "No milk today".

Artistic process

The techniques he practices include painting and design, as well as sculpture, installations, photography, engraving (etching), and infography. Trained as a painter, he never hesitates exchanging his paint brushes for a keyboard or a screwdriver.

P.G. was first influenced by lyrical abstraction and gesture painting (Rothko, De Kooning,), and little by little he got closer to conceptual trends, i. e. based on the idea (Duchamp, Y. Klein, Minimal Art…) and to contemporary artists such as J. Charlier, J Kounellis, Pistoletto, F. Hybert…

His philosophical and poetic investigations are noticeable in his present work whose leading features are undoubtedly a ritual and unconscious taste for the aestheticism and sensuality of the materials. Pleasure, motivating his work, as well as poetic and philosophical reflection, are part of his latest investigations.

Introspection, contemplation and insight into our society can often reveal the meaning of his work.

For the last two years he has been concentrating his quest around the theme of emptiness the concept of which is suggested by motley objects and is often expressed through the white color. "Our relationship to emptiness is universal concern; it leads us to our existential anguish regarding life and death", explain P.G.

His Works