Walter Swennen is certainly among the most important artists of his generation in the Belgian artistic landscape. Unclassifiable, his art is a sort of short circuit between popular culture and great painting, with an iconoclastic tone and caustic humor.

A poet at heart, language is a founding element of his practice. Whether in Flemish, French, German or English, the words populate his compositions, without ever providing them with any meaning, a key to understanding. Because delivering a message is not the artist's intentions. He does not expect the viewer to understand a work but that it arouses emotions in him, that it encourages him to use his imagination.

The primary purpose of painting is the act of painting ...