Jean-Luc Moerman

Based in Brussels, Jean-Luc Moerman is a self-taught and iconoclastic artist. Drawing is the medium he likes the most and constitutes the beginning of any work. Known to the general public for his street practice and his stickers with an inimitable touch, the artist above all does not want to let himself be locked in any straitjacket whatsoever; his motto would rather be Neither God nor Master, nothing but the gesture. The thousands of stickers he has produced are nevertheless a good starting point for anyone who wants to understand his way of considering the artistic discipline. The collage, the marking of a territory thanks to the stickers relates not to a desire for egocentric demonstration but to the affirmation of beauty in what it sometimes has most incongruous and when it lodges where it is not there. do not wait there. These kinds of urban tattoos, Jean-Luc Moerman subsequently transformed into what he calls “hybrids”. His art is going viral in the noble sense of the term; the artist needs space, his painting needs to unfold. The formats grow and the lines develop like lianas; Moerman's work now calls in an inextinguishable way to the organic. It almost seems that his painting is dictated to him; it recalls the shamanic influences of the abstract expressionist Pollock. The artist offers clean lines to the eye because each of them seems to be arranged naturally in an organized tangle. The features, colored or not, challenge the viewer as they seem to have their own individuality. The evocations are numerous but left to the free interpretation. Because more than a visual pleasure, the artist's hybrids are a gateway to the imagination, the revelation. The profusion of forms echoes that of the ideas and torments of each individual. Moerman's work is in a way a gateway to the Unspeakable.