BLACK IRON
11 January - 18 February 2022
Extension until 15 March 2022
Frédérick Mouraux Gallery is honoured to continue the “Black Iron” exhibition within the Black Pearl Building of the European Commission in Brussels.
After a great success at the Frédérick Mouraux Gallery, the exhibition “Black Iron” continues within the European Commission presenting an incredible dialogue between two artists: Mikael Lallemand Pellicer and Racso Jugarap.
For these two artists, Mikael Lallemand Pellicer and Racso Jugarap, metal is a material that proves to be a means of expression for their personal and sensitive universe. Two very different styles that testify to the physical richness of metal. For one, with suppleness and lightness, for the other, with the affirmation of associated volumes in space.
MIKAEL LALLEMAND PELLICER
The latest creations of the artist Mikael Lallemand Pellicer are charged with a true emotional strength.
More than 20 years ago, Frédérick Mouraux met Mikael Lallemand Pellicer and discovered his work. A discreet artist of Belgian-Spanish origin, his shyness leads him to exhibit his work only when he feels it is ready to be revealed.
This summer, the artist was caught up in the turmoil of the floods in his home town in the Ardennes and experienced a profound personal shock. The works presented in the gallery are a representation of what he experienced. His metal sculptures can occasionally be combined with other materials - the forms are perfect, the volumes balanced. The two languages, formal and sculptural, are expressed in successful harmony, balance, diversity and integrated contrast. The work is strong, virile, while leaving room for a feminine flexibility. The search for beauty inevitably leads the artist to a profound discovery of the "self" and to a great spirituality tinged with modesty.
RACSO JUGARAP
Originally from the Philippines, the artist travelled throughout Europe before setting up his studio in Brussels.
During his joyful youth, the child who would become an artist, began to bend pieces of metal that he found on the floor of his father's workshop, a craftsman. Very quickly, the young boy created more and more geometric shapes, using all sorts of tools to manipulate them and make them live in space, taking a liking to these games of volume. The works reveal the sensitive and intimate world of the artist. His studio becomes a place of creation isolating him from the outside world during the long hours of conception.
The exhibition entilted “Black Iron” presents his latest creations resulting from a meticulous art, combining mastery of technique with a formal and sensitive universe, the one of an international artist who presents himself as a modern "icon".
