Biography & artistic approach
Born in Brussels on August 24, 1976, BrieucC grew up in an artistic background, He was taught drawing and painting as a child following the Martenot method. He gradually developed a sensory approach to art, learning to balance shapes, volumes and colours.
Fascinated and attracted by light for as long as he can remember, it has been a trigger for BrieucC in his artistic work. In 2014, he designed and created his first work incorporating artificial light. This work: "The Door", highly symbolic for him, marks the beginning of a new life.
His work will quickly evolve and focus on the question of movement and perception.
Creator of his own artistic technique, his style is quite unique and recognizable.
His "angular art", as he calls it, is resolutely pure and contemporary, and part of kinetic art.
His works are made up of combinations of straight lines (cut-outs). Angular cuts are made in the wood to inscribe the imagined movement into the material, revealing the work through the physical experience of the viewer.This experience is necessary and an integral part of the artistic process.
Beyond pure aesthetics, he wants to encourage viewers to question their own vision by trying out other points of view.
"Only movement and our ability to open up to other fields of vision allow us a fuller understanding of reality"
The artist's creations come to life when the viewer moves, revealing shapes and contrasts, light and colour. He describes them as "living works". He describes them as 'living works', which allow people to come into contact with them, simply by contemplating them or interacting with them. He believes that there is a real relationship between the work and the viewer.
Nothing is ever perceived except from the place where one stands. Aware of this relativity of vision, BrieucC invites us to multiply perspectives. Through his work and the experience it generates, he encourages the viewer to move, to shift their position, in order to broaden their field of perception and enrich their understanding of the artwork.
Contrast and colors
From light to shadow and contrast, and then to color
In 2023, BrieucC opened a new chapter in his artistic practice. With the series Perception in Black and White, he abandoned artificial light to focus entirely on the contrasts of shadow and natural light. His angular cutouts trace sharp lines, organized into elementary geometric figures or fragmented perspectives. Each composition becomes an invitation to movement: the viewer is prompted to shift position, to explore multiple vantage points, and to question the subjectivity inherent in all perception.
Two years later, in 2025, BrieucC continued his exploration. He reduced the number of angular cutouts to give greater prominence to movement, now reinforced by the introduction of color. Color here does not merely embellish: it becomes structure, a vehicle of form and emotional charge. These new chromatic intensities and contrasting visual rhythms serve a single intention: to deepen the viewer’s perceptual experience and draw them into a constant oscillation between stability and movement, between certainty and doubt.
Light
Movement, light and colors
BrieucC's luminous works are surprising and thought-provoking. From the outset, his research has focused on movement, light and colour. The artist proposes works that evolve in space and time. The viewer brings the work to life by moving in front of it, making the light appear or disappear, creating chromatic effects or suggesting movement in the work itself. He likes to play with the viewer's gaze and create surprise.
The kinetic, the optical and the contemplative
His work with light can be divided into three distinct artistic directions: kinetic, optical and contemplative.
Each of these directions has its own particularity and its own artistic intention.
For him, kinetic art is the strictest form, and will give pride of place to movement. The optical approach focuses on the changing colours in the background of his works, while the contemplative approach emphasises the form formed by the cut-outs and the fixed colours in the background.
Artistic technique
Entirely realized by him in his studio, the works of BrieucC are the concretization of a reflection and a precise and rigorous work.
His artistic process originates in drawing : successive and numerous sketches and drafts explore the subject while complying with the technical requirements of this specific artform.
His work is extremely precise and to obtain the desired results in his kinetic works, BrieucC uses and resorts to mathematics. These allow him to take into account the different parameters necessary to calculate the angles, to the tenth of a degree, for each of his cuts.
Thanks to mathematics, he plays on the space in which his works evolve by determining different virtual points of vision in order to obtain the optical effects that he has previously imagined.
He then creates the preparatory drawings and the numerous cutting marks directly on the wooden panel. Then, he cuts each line according to the angles previously calculated. BrieucC’s artwork requires utter calm and concentration : each piece is carved from a single section of wood, which is cut manually with millimeter-exact preciseness.
Once these cuttings are finished and the finishing touches are made (several stages of sanding and painting) BrieucC can then integrate the background of the work: another artistic creation made from either acrylic paint on wood panel, or digital printed creation for the optical works.
Concerning the latter, the chromatic nuances and tones visible through the cuts evolve in the movement and are, as for the whole of its creations, the result of the combination of the setting in light, the cuts and the artistic composition which constitutes the bottom of work.