ANDRÉ WILLEQUET

Willequet, a Belgian avant-garde sculptor, has been exhibited extensively in Belgium where he has always met with great support from the museum world. Often chosen as a representative of the sculpture of his time, he exhibited several times at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and carried out public commissions, notably for the 1958 Universal Exhibition. He was trained by Oscar Jespers and then bypassed his academic teaching to choose new masters: Zadkine, Brancusi, Henry Moore, Henri Laurens.As an artist in search of spirituality, Willequet always keeps an intimate contact with matter. Absorbed by his work, he tirelessly seeks to create a dialogue between his creative gesture and the material, resulting in sculptures charged with sensitivity and emotion. Created in the solitude and silence of the studio or in the open air, they are the reflection of a patience that cannot be measured in time.