Lacomblez Jacques

Jacques Lacomblez is a Belgian artist who was born in Ixelles in 1934. He is a painter, draftsman and poet. He is a self-taught artist. In 1956, together with Edouard Jaguer, he was at the basis of the international surrealist movement Phases. In 1958, he met A. Breton and continued to work in surrealist circles. In 1958, he founded the magazine Edda (1958 to 1965). He actively participated in the activities of the Group and the magazine Phases until 1966. He participated in the exhibition of the Surrealists in New York in 1960 and in Paris in 1965. He created, among other things, whimsically constructed constructions in which one can discover a landscape, a building or a figure. He was influenced by Max Ernst. Paints in a meticulous technique, sometimes reminiscent of the old masters, a colourful world in which the mineral, the vegetal and the symbolism merge to create new spatialities. Published various volumes of verse from 1962 onwards. Exhibited in the museum in Elsene in 1983, in the Quadri gallery in 1998. Work in the museums in Brussels, Elsene, Ostend, among others. Mentioned in BAS II and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (Piron)