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FRANS FRENGEN [DE DONDER]

Lives and works in Wemmel, Belgium
www.allart-frengen.be

Fumagine is to paint with a flame, a sculpture of soot, an installation of
smoke. Frans frengen draws and sculpts his breathtaking shades with soot;
simultaneously; poetic, contemporary, recognizable, sometimes with dots and
holes into a perception with an open end. But he often asks if everybody sees
the same things. He add some colors, some moveable squares - interaction with
the art lover - and some DNA- not alone to think about social media. Frans also
recovered a ”fumagine-blue” that he associated as a complementary color to the
color of soot. Collected in soot frengen
creates fair and ambiguous images
as a master - as groundbreaking - to
paint the visible and invisible, like an
international master in art history
described. ”More intense and broader
than what I can afford,”Frans said,
”Moving under the work gives me
freedom, I feel myself as a partner of
the painting. I can walk around and
react from all positions. I do not need
to step on the canvas thanks too action
painting and painting the vaults of the
Sistine Chapel. And even as the master
of cubism it is a feast to be undisturbed
at the edge of the abyss of falsehood.
I’ll make the opposite of dripping
colors, the opposite of abstract (that
does not exist in this sense according
to the master of cubism). It is like to
search the opposite with or without an
ear.” Frans add some quotes: “I am the puppet of my subconscious, but I decide
about the strings.” ”The only advantage of contemporary art is that they do not
have to show what contemporary art was.” “Memory lives, but you were too
late to collect her.” ”Art is like you unbend, a shot in the bull’s eye.”


ROCAILLE (THE CHARITIES), 2012 FUMAGINE AND MOVABLE GEOMETRIC FIGURES ON
CANVAS 40X27,5 IN. | 100X70 CM.
 THE RICHEST PAIR, 2011 FUMAGINE AND ACRYLIC ON CANVAS - MOVABLE SQUARE
27,5X40 IN. | 70X100 CM.
 ROMEO AND JULIET, 2015 FUMAGINE AND ACRYLIC ON CANVAS - MOVABLE SQUARE
27,5X27,5 IN. | 70X70 CM.

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