Dirk Van Saene
° 1959
The art world has always been rather suspicious of any form that is purely visual, a form where beauty or emotion prevails. A form that is often referred to as ‘design’ or ‘decoration’. Yet, this is precisely what fascinates Van Saene.
As an artist, his work has no functionality: it still shows the human body, not in a direct context but rather as the notions of a human figure. His sculptures are the stage-managers of their own story. Not only with regard to their material, colours and shapes but also in the historic value that they carry and that he assigns to them.
