"Couché"
by Guy Brauns
Born in 1938, Guy Brauns studied in Brussels, first at St. Luc for four years, and then at La Cambre where his professor for painting murals was Paul Delvaux. He specialised in the creation of 3-D advertising and became head of advertising for various advertisers. He was appointed Art Director at an advertising agency, and at the same time, he was Professor at the Ecole Supérieure de Technique de Publicité (ESTP). Having launched a career as a freelance graphic artist, he opened a photo studio specialising in fashion photos in Brussels, Paris and Amsterdam, without neglecting his activities as a graphic designer of logos, and interior designer for corporate offices and the railway coaches of Belgian National Railways. While practising these various disciplines, he continued unrelentingly with his work as a painter. He showed his talent in using computer graphics, and explored the frontiers of computerised pictorial research, but in a personal capacity, with the aim of processing images with a view to creating original paintings, using a process blending the resources of computer-processed photography, reproduction on canvas, and finishing using a combined technique.
Exhibitions of paintings:
Brussels, November 2000, Overall Exhibition for the works of the newspaper Le Soir
Monaco, May 2001, International Contemporary Art Prize of Monte Carlo Belgian Selection
2001 - 2002 Opera Gallery, Paris, New York, Singapore
Singapore,
February 2002 Personal exhibition
>From March 21 to April 3
Museum Bunkamura Tokyo
>From April 12 to April 21
Solaria Art Fundation Nagoya
>From April 26 to May 12
"Kirin Plaza" Fundation Osaka
>From May 15 to May 27
Loft Gallery Fukuoka
>From June 5 to June 30
Red Brick Warehouse Museum Yokohama
