MACKOWIAK ERWIN, abstract painting, Belgian composition sculpture, painted wood, rope, fabric, 1963

MACKOWIAK ERWIN, abstract mixed technique composition from 1963, oil paint on panel, assembly of ropes, fabric and painted wood detached from the background (chipboard panel). Fabric canvases stretched by ropes (a bit like sails), aluminium-coloured on a matt black background.

Produced in the style of the French painter Georges Mathieu, this is a strong indication of the artist's need for abstract creativity in his early career.

A striking work, part brutalist wall sculpture, part abstract painting.

In good original condition.

• Collection:Free.
• Delivery in Belgium:50€.
• Delivery in France:150€.
• Delivery in Europe:200€.
• Delivery in the rest of the world:400€.

Biography:

Belgian painter born in Germany (Gladberg) in 1926, trained at the Academy of Dusseldorf, he moved to Belgium in La Louvière in 1948. He began his career with Surrealism and then Lyrical Abstraction when he arrived in Belgium, before moving on to Hyperrealism (Figurative). Later, influenced by Pop Art and photography, he painted the naked bodies of blurred women, as if a camera had shaken during the shot. The theme of women is almost omnipresent in his provocative and sensual work, magnified by delicate chiaroscuro effects. In La Presse: ‘Her works, with their dreamlike realism, are architecturally constructed. Her compositions are underpinned by curves that celebrate feminine grace in a sumptuous setting. Her colours create astonishing contrasts with the pearly, bronzed, lascivious flesh of her models'... JPB Prize, Prix H. Jacquet, Prix Europe de Peinture à Ostende, Co-founder of Groupe G.3. Works acquired by the State and the Province of Hainaut and in the Museums of Charleroi, Verviers, Frankfurt, Gladbeck. Mentioned in BAS II and in ‘Deux Siècles de Signatures d'Artistes de Belgique'. Numerous exhibitions, including Brachot in Brussels in 1972.