Alain BORNAIN (Genappe, 1965)

Alain Bornain is one of the most promising young artists in the French-speaking community in Belgium today. His gestural paintings belong to the abstract expressionist movement. Initially his feelings were expressed freely in dazzling colours, with wide gestures and not easily contained.

Memory is infused into his work. The traces of the past, the fragments of photographs, the words, the images of life, all are the sign of an expression that goes way beyond impulsiveness that is sometimes reductional in its effect. So, in going back to the source of his memories, Alain Bornain explores the blackboard : he conjugates, calculates, deletes, rewrites, deletes again. A tangible way of working that allows everyone to refind themselves and it also opens the door onto the simple and the obvious.

The Museum of Fine Arts is particularly attentive to contemporary work and is committed to integrating it into its collections. Other artists, other ways of working: Victor Neri, Jean-François Van Haelmeersch…