Jean-Christophe De Clercq

Initiated by Ung-No Lee, one of the greatest masters of calligraphy and Korean painting, for many years Jean-Christophe De Clercq has been practicing a pure gestural art of which perhaps he has not been the author but merely the vector. His self-effacement facilitates the expression of the mediums and the tools which germinate and predetermine the morphology to come. We deduce the figure from the interaction between the medium, the graphite pencil, the perfectly cleaned brush and the way that the brush becomes exhausted and recharges itself on the paper.