1967 "Garress"

37" x 62"

Guillaume Leunens

The painter Guillaume Leunens is a person of feverish sensibility, who embraced his time with unconditional enthusiasm. His exhibition in the Péguy showroom are a hymn and tribute to a material that is fundamentally characteristic of our time: metal, used more in our modern civilization than ever before. Rather than submitting in a positive way to the reign of metal, Leunens has tried to penetrate its system in order to reveal its hidden threats.

Craftsman and technician, but also endowed with a generous character, Leunens has in a certain way tried to exorcise the metal - in this case the aluminum - of a more poetic treatment and of being considered simpler and more noble than other metals, and to make it more propitious to man by revealing its beauty.

With this purpose in mind, he developed, after numerous experiments, a new language enabling the human spirit to penetrate the material.

Reggui (Orléans)

Copyright 1996 ArtMetal / Victor Leunens