GUILLAUME LEUNENS, FLEMISH ARTIST PAINTER
Graphic Poetry (Gaaress)
Painting with metal is, on the other hand, Guillaume Leunens'
art. Born in Belgium but living in Paris, he has, in the last few years,
created his own discipline, for which he has meanwhile largely softened
and developed the resources. He uses the projection of molten aluminum
and its artisanal treatment in order to develop, within this support itself,
generally spiral or circular rhythms from which emerges something like
the mystery of an elementary cosmic presence. Giving a cold industrial
material the poetics of suggestion, a visual warmth and a whole range of
luminous vibrations is the profound, and so fascinating, characteristic
of his originality. The modulations he imposes on the plays of light, of
darkness, of shades of color and of reliefs identify themselves with a
vital authentic impulse, thus proving that there is no gap in his works
between the imagination and the creation, between the subjectivity of the
design and the means causing it.
L.L. Sosset, Brussels, Beaux-Arts, 1968
metal on metal Gaaress 37" x 62"
victor.leunens@leunens.ca
