Spain Arts & Culture - 29 June 2022
The Spanish Embassy in Belgium is hosting the work of Spanish-Belgian artist Mikael Lallemand, whose sculptures pay tribute to the victims of the floods that devastated the Walloon region in July 2021. The tragedy had a significant impact on the artist, who lives in Pepinster. His work is based on the representation of seemingly simple geometric shapes that fit together and complement each other without any connection, leaving invisible space to unite them. The harmony between these ideas, elements and materials is absolute, generating a dialectic on societal notions of permanence and intangibility. On this harmonious basis, his main work also reflects the traumatic impact of the floods that devastated Wallonia in July 2021, where the artist lives, on the edge of one of the most affected areas. Wood is water which, despite its destructive impact, regains its natural harmony at the end of the composition, creating new landscapes, transforming space and inviting memory.
MIKAEL LALLEMAND PELLICER, born in Spain to a mother from Navarre and a father from Wallonia, combines in his work the vital energy of two very different but complementary materials: metal and wood. The result of this union allows him to obtain a final product of great aesthetic purity, sober, light and elegant, capable of transmitting visually, physically and symbolically.
With the collaboration of the Fréderick Mouraux Gallery in Brussels and the Art@Work program of the DG BUDGET for the promotion of art in unconventional spaces in order to bring art closer to the citizen and to stimulate and energize the professional environment.
