" Blue Santo " Copyright©Gartner (2016) Painting by Gartner

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1947 --- Born in Antwerp February 1
1956 --- Attended music school Classical and Jazz music
1962 --- Worked as author and composer
1964 --- Concentrated on writing poetry and began to make his first drawings.
First price poetry:Belgian Radio Television contest
1968 --- After completing his studies, began to travel around the world.Being attracted to Latin-
America,traveled through Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina
1969 ---Traveled to the U.S.A and attended Woodstock
1970 --- Met Jacques Brel in Paris
1972 --- Traveled to Brazil.Met singer-poet and diplomat Vinicius De Moraës
1975 --- Traveled throughout Spain and discovered the works of Tapies and Clavé
1980 --- Decided to live a couple of months a year in Brazil.Traveled through the Amazon and met its native peoples. Began to paint as an autodidact
1991 --- First exhibition in the U.S.A. Avanti Galleries in New- Jersey and New York
1992 --- First collaboration with Gallery Cédric Van Der Planken Antwerp
1992--2023--- Art Fairs and exhibitions around the world.



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• Nationality: BELGIUM
• Date of birth : 1947
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Belgian Artists