Chance creates the line

Always on the lookout, that's how Jean Bilquin summarises his artistry. He is always trying to find the appropriate technique, aesthetics and the better work. The torch with which Bilquin tries to illuminate his target always illuminates the image differently, so that the artist's approach is in constant evolution during the work process. This organic search ties in with what this exhibition of mainly new work zooms in on: how coincidence determines the line. The exploitation of coincidence applies to both Bilquin's artistic process and his view of mankind. For this artist, neither existence nor creativity is light-hearted - and both click into each other. Coincidence and what happens to you is like an unforeseen change of track: before you know it, you are going in a different direction. Bilquin's lines end up on the canvas following the same logic.