Born on April 1, 1947 in Lier.
At the very tender age of 12 I already followed my education at the city academy for applied arts in Lier with evening and weekend education higher art education in day education in Antwerp. From 1962 to 1965 I took a correspondence course from Famous Artist School founder Albert Dorne and President of the school Norman Rockwel, a department in Apeldoorn Netherlands with a final grade A +.Little by little I built up my artistic gift, always looking to expand my knowledge of pure Abstract Impressionism. In 2000, after an interlude of 34 years, I started painting again.
My works have neither political archery nor a story, color is my story together with the play of shapes. Color is the expression of my joy, love and passion, although I think that for many art enthusiasts it is important that a work of art has a meaning. The most important thing for me is that the person who looks at it finds his own story in it, see what you want to see in the colors and shapes, it is not enough to believe what you see, what you see you also have to understand.
My artworks are fresh, lively and colorful, painted with vivid living colors, characterized by a naive almost childish depicted shapes, it is especially important to me that the colors I use are of high quality with a lot of color pigment. My construction of my artwork is step by step,my painting technique, the colors I apply have been carefully selected based on their primary vibration, but equally important is the position of color tones next to each other.
The first step is the choice of colors The second step is to give the colors a place, different for each work of art, movement of lines and surfaces is the ultimate message that influences the perception of the image. I never give a title to my work. I leave this to the fantasies of the person who views and names my works.

I quote:
THE AUTONOMOUS ARTISTIC REALITY OF VICTOR

The Belgian painter Victor Vergauwen does not look for inspiration in reality in his artistic work, but in his own thinking.

The formal and chromatic elements of his essential and synthetic abstract compositions literally mean themselves and nothing else

Freed from the traditional descriptive perspective, which is prone to the imitation of the objective data of apparent reality, live and act the figurative elements that Vergauwen, on the other hand, created in a non-Euclidean multidimensional space.

Well, this artist does not imitate the deceptive appearances of visual perception, but creates the most original ones that arise from visual thought and mind.

Vergauwen essentially tends to an abstract, figurative art of creation and never to reproduction or interpretation of natural visual reality.

In fact, the artist's painting is not descriptive, neither anecdotal, nor moral, nor psychological, and therefore it is not subordinated to any purpose and becomes a free art of great reality.

But please note that the term should be understood as an autonomous artistic reality and not as realism.

CESARE CACCIAVILLANI MOTTA
Padova. 27 settembre 2015

Participated competitions
• 2016: Finalists Premio Combat Prize - Livorno Italia.
• 2017: Artisti Segnalati Premio Combat Prize - Livorno Italia
• 2018: Artisti Segnalati Premio Combat Prize - Livorno Italia
• 2018: Artisti Segnalati CCBA Prize Milan Italia
• 2018: Running Up Prize by 11Th-Pollux- Awards Barcelona España
• 2019: Prize of the Jury Graphics Premio Combat Prize Livorno Italy
• 2020: Prize of the Modern Painting Jury Premio Combat Prize Livorno Italy