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| Alann De Vuyst |
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Born in 1959 in Aalst, Belgium. Four years training in St. Lukas Artschool, Brussels in advertising art. Autodidact in art painting. Extended stays in South America and Asia. Exhibits in Belgium, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Japan and India.
"Alann de Vuyst's canvas reflects an modernist view-point without moving away from his first love: the Brazilian natives. His lines and strokes speak of innocent tribal sensivity as also the heartless ruggedness of urban sophistication. In his works he combines the analysis of major issues with a feeling for stark realities of life. De Vuyst strives to transgress the confines of nationality." The Asian Age, India, Nov. 1997.
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"I am a traveling nomadic painter, too restless to settle down anywhere in the world. I was adopted by the Xavantes, an Mato Grosso indigenous nation in Brazil ceremonially in 1989. My travel experiences and stays with natives both in Asia and South America have certainly had their impact on me and my art..."
Why do I paint these images? Out of revolt, suffering, contempt for society in which I don't feel happy, to make people think about the world they live in. The absurdity of life and in particular my life. Sometimes I feel like a reincarnation of Paul Gauguin who was on a lifetime quest for the savage in him.He stayed with natives in Tahiti and fought the missionaries. I did the same in Brazil and I was threatened with death 3 times for that.
As for my warfare: I've seen how missionaries behave in many reservations of native Brazilians, American and Brazilian, Protestant and Catholics. Destroying all cultures with the pretension bringing something better. Creating evil, unrest, greed and passing on their own fights over to tribes. The hypocrisy of the Pope to condemn abortion, condoms, while babies grow up without parents or any future or with the AIDS virus in their bodies. The narrow-mindedness and intolerance of other ideas and other rich cultures. See history: the inquisition and burning people who think differently. The creation of guilt feeling, something you don't find in Buddhism. The oppression of different sexual beliefs. The taboos created all along with it generating monsters in our society like serial killers. In history killing thousands of people such as the Aztecs, Incas because they were practicing sodomy. (You'll find that confirmed in Bartolome De Las Casas) The destruction of beautiful historical heritage from the Egyptians. All animal deities with huge phalluses were smashed to pieces because of its openly worshipping of different gods and sexual diversities.
This destruction goes on based on a book called the Bible that is virtually a book of myths taken from the Jews who again took it from the Babylonians. Adam and Eve, The Ark of Noah, are known in other religions and societies before the Christian era began all metaphors for worshipping of phallus and yoni symbolism. The snake symbolizing the erection of Adam, the ark the female genital and the mast of the boat the phallus. But nowadays, a lot of people read this book so literally word by word not knowing where it all comes from or what it meant. Long live the reborn Christians and the Moral Majority who spread the gospel to the ignorant heathens all over the world. It's worth a while to read a book called "the Phallic Worship" (a study of religion) and "Missionaries" written by reporter Norman Lewis.
One reason why I am here in Asia, is that I cannot bear the new inquisition in the West anymore. Maybe you can call me a sexual refugee in the 20th century.My warfare is in a sense to reconstruct on my canvas what has been destroyed in the Christian era. In Belgium during an exhibition of the Aztec empire, a small room was separated with a black curtain from students. Inside the room terracotta with huge phalluses and other erotic scenes. In a Disney movie "The Pagemaster" Michael Angelo's David's genitals were censored. A picture of an ancient Greek amphora with naked men was published in students' manuals in France in the eighties, only without their penises.
Where are we going to? I hope it will give you a deeper insight in my work."
Alann De Vuyst
QUOTES BY INDIAN ART CRITICS:
"MANY A TIMES WHEN ONE COMES ACROSS AN ARTIST, ONE WONDERS WHAT IS MORE INTERESTING: THE MAN OR HIS WORKS? ALANN DE VUYST IS SUCH AN ARCHETYPE ARTIST..."
Rajen Bali painter and art critic for ' THE NEW ASIAN AGE' CALCUTTA/ INDIA/ MAY 1996
"AGILE LINES AND THE STRONG BRUSH STROKES TESTIFY FOR THE ARTIST'S TALENT, CAPACITY AND OF THE SOURCE OR HIS INSPIRATION"
Rita Datta for ECONOMIC TIMES /APRIL 10 1996 /CALCUTTA INDIA
"ALANN IS PROVOCATIVE AND THUS INTERESTING. HE WANTS TO PAINT SHOCKING IMAGES TO DISTURB PEOPLE IN THEIR OVERALL COMPLACENCY... HE IS A MAN WITH A DEWESTERNISING VIEW..IN STRONG VIBRANT COLOURS HE CREATES AN ART FOR LIFE AND NOT AN ART FOR ART STATEMENT. AND HE DECIDED THAT THIS ART SHALL LIVE."
Madhuri for THE STATESMAN/ MAY 27 CALCUTTA INDIA |
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