Jean-Georges Massart

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Belgian artist Jean-Georges Massart (1953–2022) once said: “To choose to make visible / The almost nothing.” As a young artist, Massart quickly focused on the essence of matter and space. His measured interventions are made of humble materials: bamboo, hollow elder, willow, pebbles, wax, and natural pigments. They are situated at the intersection of Land Art and Minimal Art. The artist’s approach is a form of writing in space, inspired by the primordial gestures of gathering, collecting, and handling. His technique relies on minimal intervention, where rationality and geometric shapes converge with the poetic and mythical, seeking to reveal the essential identity of the object and the site. Developed over five decades, his work constitutes an artistic language of rare sobriety. An intense activity of exhibiting has accompanied Jean-Georges Massart’s career, with many solo and group exhibitions in Belgium, France, Italy and Western Europe.