“A real vital breath”
“It is a work that must be taken the time to discover and understandexplains Didier Leemans, one of the former students of Philippe Desomberg, who later resumed his sculpture lesson at the Arts School.On this nude, there is a work on the structure, the volume, the light … it’s worth looking closely, detailing the muscles … It is a sculpture that gives off a real vital breath. “
For his students, Philippe Desomberg was a teacher of great rigor, but also very open, who could speak of sculpture as well as a cinema or give reading advice. His extensive knowledge and his way of working the blocks of stone essentially by hand, in a fairly slow process in order to let the sculpture mature over the work, fascinated a lot of those who followed his courses. Several of them have also pursued an artistic career.
“This teacher, who was keen to transmit, was an institution”summarized Wednesday evening the Brainoise alderman of culture, Chantal Versmisen. His predecessors Olivier Chamart and Marie-Anne Hatert, who knew Philippe Desomberg when he taught, also attended this inauguration.
Before being installed at the Arts School, the work was in the artist’s workshop. The ASBL of the school has assumed the transport costs, and the creation of the base was entrusted to Didier Leemans.
