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Biografia

Dominique Ampe
1944
• Geboren Ukkel op 04 december 1944, als oudste zoon van dertien kinderen van Ursmar Antoon Ampe Apotheker te Mortsel en Rose-Marie Van Nuland
1962-1965
• Sint Lucas Instituut te Brussel
1965-1968
• Hoger Instituut voor Beeldende Kunsten Sint Lucas, te Brussel
1969-1970
• Academie voor Schone Kunsten te Mechelen
1978
• Docet [illustratief ontwerpen] aan de Hogeschool West Brabant, Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Sint Joost Breda NL
1982-1983
• Docet aan het Sint Lucas Paviljoen, Antwerpen
1983-1985
• DOcet aan het Hoger Instituut voor Beeldende Kunsten Sint Lucas, Brussel
1984-1985
• Docet aan het Hoger Instituut voor Architectuur Sint Lucas, Schaarbeek, Brussel
In my images I combine anachronistic elements (elements that do not belong in the image in question, see Renè Magritte) or elements which are incompatibile.
In their succession these elements do not lead to a solution, at least not in the way one would expert. The result i san ideological moment, and it is this ideological moment which is the essence of the work.
I have a passionate relationship with the act of painting: for me it is about attraction as well as repulsion and has many difficult moments.
Painting i san intangibile medium; it does not allow one to take control. It does, however, enable one to visualize a world which is private, closed off. A painting is not a stationary image; it is a presence. That is why my painting is a source of light in the meaning of my own shadow.
The paintings with the “wall and ladder”, “table and cloud” and “chair and table” are the key works, as they are all about playing with our expectations a sto what a painting might be.