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Knut Kersse - Represented by Jonas Gallery
( Belgium, 1957 - present )
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Artist: Knut Kersse ( Belgium, 1957 - present ) -
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Main Category: Painting
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Genres: Expressionism
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Biography: This painter and drawer was born in Gent on November 22, 1957.
He followed the ceramics classes of Marnix Hoys and studied fine arts at the Sint-Lucaasinstituut in Gent.
The major theme of al his paintings and drawnings is the human beeing an more precisely the woman.
He is very influenced by exressionism in his use of lines, which transforms his creations in in tortured visions that are fluctuating between dream and nightmare. Through his representation of an expressionist, tragic and agressive world Knut Kersse is often compared to Egon Schiele, Otto Dix and George Grosz.
But this expressionism has to be put in an historical and social context.
Another characteristic of the painter is that he rejects the use of every single traditional method: His faces and bodies are seldom presented in a classical way, what should be round is made angular, he plays with the strictness of the lines and colours.
This spontaneous way of playing with art creates the feeling that the patterns are appearing by chance.
Knut Kersse’s figures emerge from a mixture of colours, black stripes,...which he’s playing with too: he chooses to emphasize black, or a carmine red lipstick, or the entire palette.
The diversity of his work can also be found in his carreer because Knut Kersse is also a poet and he writes his own compositions.
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