Dirk Van Saene

About Dirk Van Saene

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.

Born in 1959.