Fifteen years ago, Jacques Cassiman, who was exclusively a painter and a drawer, received a wax block from a friend and started to shape some small figures in an antique way. With extreme lines and precision, casted in bronze and patinated, they remind greek silhouettes highly stripped that they only kept the essential of the body, or the Etruscan statuettes whose whole truth seems to be concentrated on the face. This set of works by going back to the origins in three dimensions is like one more step in the approach of the artist to finding the human. One of the last sculpture, a bronze torso, full scale, seems to be animated by a vital breath.
(cf Colette Bertot, art critic in l`Echo)
Sculptures by jacques cassiman
Credentials
Qualifications
Studies :
• Academy of St. Luc (Schaerbeek) 1960 Drawing
• Academy of Arts Brussels 1961-1965 Drawing-painting
• Technical School in Écaussines 1965 Sculpture,Studies :
• Academy of St. Luc (Schaerbeek) 1960 Drawing
• Academy of Arts Brussels 1961-1965 Drawing-painting
• Technical School in Écaussines 1965 SculptureExhibitions
yes
Awards
Award and Prizes
1964 Donnay Prize : winner
1965 First Prize of the Academy of Arts Brussels
Golden Medal of the City of Brussels
1966 States Grant
Baron Steens Prize
Silver Medal of theEuropean Council of Arts and Esthetics
1967 Bronze Medal of the Professionnal Artists of Belgium
1968 Goddiarch Prize – selected
Lebon Prize – selected
Louis Schmidt Prize : selected
1970 Louis Schmidt Prize : selected
1972 Louis Schmidt Prize : selected
1973 Comte de Launoit Prize : winner
1974 Louis Schmidt Prize : selected
1975 Anto Carte Prize : selected
Deglumes Foundation : selected
1977 City of Knokke Prize : selected
1978 City of Renaix Prize : distinction
Anto Carte Prize : winner
1981 Grant of Flemish Ministry of Culture
1984 Gaver Prize : selected
1994 Arte Prize : winner
1996 Culturama Prize : distinction
2000 Prize of Woluwe St. Pierre : selected
2001 3th Mostra of Mini Graphic e Pintura (Pisa Italy) : finalist
2002 4th Mostra of Mini Graphic e Pintura (Pisa Italy) : finalistPublications
Bibliography
• Illustration of “De Zangen van een Centaur” – Rik Renis (1971)
• L’Art en belgique – Éd. Nationale d’Art – A. de la Hamaide Éditeur (1978)
• L’Officiel des Arts de l’Unesco (1978)
• Catalogue of Camp Gallery at Deurle (1979)
• Catalogue of the Exhibitions of the Province of Brabant at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels (1964-65-66-67-70-72-73)
• Annuaire de l’Art International – Éd. P. Sermadiras (1980-81)
• Monography of the Editions d’Art Poseidon with 10 poems of Marcel Van Maele and a story of Francis Matthijs (1984)
• Catalogue Beciani (1988-89)
• Catalogue Pep in Gen (1993-94-95-96)
• Semper : Étude par Raymond Lacroix “Le fugace Immortalisé” (april 1993)
• Art Contact (1995)
• Catalogue « Internationnal Art Fair Malines » (1996)
• Catalogue « Kunst voor kenners Malines » (1996)
• Le Dictionnaire des Peintres en Belgique du XIV ème
à nos Jours – Éd. La Renaissance du Livre (1995)
• Guide Arto de l’Art en Belgique – Catalogue de la 10ème exposition Internationnale du Petit Format (2000)
• De Belgische Beeldende Kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20e Eeuw – Paul Piron Art In Belgium Editor (2000)
• Troop II Kunstenaars Gids (1999).,Bibliography
• Illustration of “De Zangen van een Centaur” – Rik Renis (1971)
• L’Art en belgique – Éd. Nationale d’Art – A. de la Hamaide Éditeur (1978)
• L’Officiel des Arts de l’Unesco (1978)
• Catalogue of Camp Gallery at Deurle (1979)
• Catalogue of the Exhibitions of the Province of Brabant at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels (1964-65-66-67-70-72-73)
• Annuaire de l’Art International – Éd. P. Sermadiras (1980-81)
• Monography of the Editions d’Art Poseidon with 10 poems of Marcel Van Maele and a story of Francis Matthijs (1984)
• Catalogue Beciani (1988-89)
• Catalogue Pep in Gen (1993-94-95-96)
• Semper : Étude par Raymond Lacroix “Le fugace Immortalisé” (april 1993)
• Art Contact (1995)
• Catalogue « Internationnal Art Fair Malines » (1996)
• Catalogue « Kunst voor kenners Malines » (1996)
• Le Dictionnaire des Peintres en Belgique du XIV ème
à nos Jours – Éd. La Renaissance du Livre (1995)
• Guide Arto de l’Art en Belgique – Catalogue de la 10ème exposition Internationnale du Petit Format (2000)
• De Belgische Beeldende Kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20e Eeuw – Paul Piron Art In Belgium Editor (2000)
• Troop II Kunstenaars Gids (1999).