lisbone (2019) Photography by Olivier De Pooter

Olivier De Pooter was born on September 4, 1972 in Braine l'Alleud. A large part of his life took place in Nivelles in Belgium where he studied at the Sainte-Gertrude college. Towards the beginning of his adolescence, Art began to take an important place in his life. Poetry, writing and painting have accompanied him since that day. Abstract painting is an important motor allowing him to transpose the imagination. The art of transforming an image with regard to the photography of everyday life in such a way as to give it an impression of the unreal. Abstract painting has a very large place in his creative world.

Olivier De Pooter is a self-taught artist: "Presenting an artistic approach is something so difficult, because each human being perceives as he feels what the artist is trying to transpose. What we discern through his gaze is unique to each one… My way of working with photography or rather photographic art as well as painting is something so subjective that describing it is difficult or almost impossible" as he likes to point out. What he offers you to do is simply to explore his vision of the world or rather what he perceives and to share it with you.

"Even if it may seem primary or primitive, "action painting" is a thoughtful pictorial movement as far as I am concerned and it allows me to be able to create forms or rather interpretations from my unconscious or my mood of the moment. Leaving everyone free to make their own vision, their own perception. The play of colors as well as the transposition in certain cases of geometric shapes are a juxtaposition between the concrete and abstract world that surrounds us. The lines or the movements of colors that accompany it are a link that operates between the two worlds.The world of the visible and that of the invisible.Looking at an abstract work never leaves you indifferent: you enter it or you reject it, but in no case can we remain without an opinion What I humbly try in creating his works is just to invite people who wish to enter my world and accompany me on this journey which is infinite. "

• Nationality: BELGIUM
• Date of birth : 1972
• Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value, Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Certified Artists Professional Artist Contemporary Belgian Artists