Petrus De Man

Petrus De Man (born 1955 in Hallen, Belgium) is known as a painter and illustrator for creating a particularly poetic universe with raw, constructed and often very colourful accents. Child-males, prisoners of their fate but also possessed of an urge for freedom, seek a place within the confines of walls and enchanted gardens, between melancholy and mischievousness, in a world created to their measure. Hesitating between existential buck-passing and a sometimes petrified silence, De Man's world evolves along with the oeuvre, which can be seen as an eternal building site.