NAME: christophe muylaert
BIRTH PLACE: Blankenberge
BIRTH DATE: 7.23.67
BIOGRAPHY
I was born in 1967 and am currently living and working in Bruges (Belgium).
From 1989 until 2004 I attended drawing, painting and video classes at the academies of Bruges, Anderlecht and Ostend. During the period from 1993 until 1997 I did a masters in Philosophy, specializing in esthetics. From 2004 onwards I started showing my work to the public on a regular basis.
At this moment in time I make oil paintings and video-installations.
My paintings are situated between abstraction and figuration. A formal approach is essential to me. Recently I started painting abstracted seascapes, mainly because the impervious and endless nature of the ocean strongly appeals to me. In romanticist esthetics reference is made to the "sublime" in order to express the spiritual experience of the Absolute when man is confronted with nature in its vastness.
In my videowork I try to materialize concepts and sensibilities that are more difficult to process in painting. I hereby combine video and painting in order to create a "fusion" of both media - the projected image and the painted surface or object are made to merge, until the point where both cannot be distinguished anymore and a new medium comes to life.
