Jean-Pierre Gonthier
Painter from Belgien
- Winner of an art award
- Press articles / Publications
- In private collections
- In public collections & museums
- internationally established
- studies at an art academy
- art scholarship
- master class student (or: postgraduate master student under a professor)
- professorship at an art academy
- International exhibitions
"Das Undenkbare denken, das Unverständliche verstehen, zwischen Infragestellung und Angemessenheit wird die Freiheit zur Verwandlung erfunden, um Offenheit zu empfangen und der Undurchsichtigkeit der Gefühle zu entkommen ." - Jean-Pierre Gonthier
Biography of Jean-Pierre Gonthier
Born in 1956 in Rocourt, Belgium
Studied painting at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Liège
Presentation of the artist Jean-Pierre Gonthier’s monograph at the International Frankfurt Book Fair 2008
Numerous exhibitions in Belgium and Germany
About the art of Jean-Pierre Gonthier
For Gonthier, painting is an intellectual discipline, with perception originating in the brain. Like a master watchmaker, he sees the challenge in complexity. "The theme of Jean-Pierre Gonthier’s modern art is painting itself. And particularly the confrontation between figuration and abstraction, which mix, align, and sometimes cause confusion," as Jean-Michel Sarlet aptly described. A Gonthier work emerges through an intense creative process, guided by demanding criteria. The result is not accidental; it is the virtuoso composition of a modern master of his discipline, who is carving his own path in modern art.