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Born in Austin, Texas (USA). He graduated in Business Administration from Lamar University (Beaumont) and in Fine Arts from Hunter College in New York. Since 1985, when he participated in a group exhibition at the Kouros gallery, he has shown his work in museums and galleries in the USA, Italy, France and Germany. His work is both abstract and figurative, and he makes no distinction between the two. Far from the artistic trends in vogue, he was inspired by creators such as Goya, Bosch, Velázquez, El Greco, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Pollock and Rauschenberg. In his words, “the present is connected with the past and becomes a projection into the future, where tradition meets innovation and the world is unblocked and becomes liquid and gaseous and forms are transformed into new forms”. After more than 30 years in New York, in 2014 he moved to Carbondale (Colorado). His works are now in MoMA, the Solomon R. Guggenheim, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Art Museum of Southwest Texas. In 2016 he was included in the exhibition Painting after postmodernism. Belgium-USA, at the Vanderborght of Brussels, the Episcopal Palace of Malaga and the Reggia di Caserta.

Born in Antwerp (Belgium). He studied at the Royal Academy and combined painting with poetry. In 1968 he took part in a writers’ protest against literary censorship in Belgium. In 1972 he exhibited for the first time at the Zwarte Panter gallery and later began his collaboration with gallery owner Jan Lens (Lens Fine Arts). His books, published by Manteau, his literary collaborations and cover designs for literary magazine Revolver, alternate with his exhibitions: biennials in Sao Paulo, Venice and Seoul; the Isy Brachot gallery in Brussels, 1082 in Paris and others. When Antwerp was the European Capital of Culture (1993), he organised an important exhibition and painted the ceiling of the lobby of the restored Bourla Theatre. The Lippisches Landesmuseum (Detmold) presented Transport (1994-2004), paintings partly inspired by World War II: his parents and other members of his family collaborated in the Resistance against the Nazi invaders, but they were arrested and deported to Mauthausen and Ravensbrück. In 2005 he travelled to Israel to install his triptych Nathan the Wise. In 2010, the Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp invited him to “close” the museum before its remodelling and organised the retrospective Closing time in dialogue with classical artists such as Rubens, Van Eyck, Titian, Cranach and others; in 2012 the Roberto Polo gallery in Brussels inaugurated Closed doors, his first exhibition there. In 2013 he presented Losing Face, a series on Jewish deportees from Belgium to Auschwitz, shown at the Kazerne Museum in Mechelen and then at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow. His work can be found in the National Museum of Gdansk, the British Museum, the Museum of Polish Jewish History (Warsaw), the Walsall New Art Gallery and others.

Born in Arnhem (Holland), his family immediately settled in Amsterdam, where he studied graphic design. In 1979 he went to Brussels and in 1980 he opened a gallery. Since 1988 he has published photographs in many major magazines with his wife, Barbara, an artist and art critic. He worked in interior design in numerous cities while exhibiting photographs and publishing books. In 2013 they open the Geminal Gallery in Brussels, which in 2018 moved to Latam-Saint-Martin.

Born in Mislata (Valencia), where he still lives. He studied at the San Carlos Academy in Valencia; he began as a painter, but since 1972 he has devoted himself almost exclusively to sculpture. He received the National Prize of Plastic Arts in 1986 and many other awards (from the Association of Art Critics; from the Generalitat Valenciana; the Julio González International Prize in 2008, etc.). Also in 2008, he became a member of the Academy of San Fernando. He has works in museums all over the world (the Guggenheim in New York, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, IVAM in Valencia, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Sofia Imbert in Caracas, Germany, Japan, etc.) and in leading collections (Banco de España, Argentaria, Renfe, Aena, etc.). He has participated in countless solo and group exhibitions since 1973. He is particularly known for monumental sculpture for public spaces (Valencia, Bilbao, Vitoria, Madrid, Brussels, etc.).