Born in Charleroi on August 31, 1962. He trained in drawing and comics at the academies of Charleroi and Châtelet, under Marcel Gibon, André Goessens, and Vittorio Leonardo until 1982.

Didier studied psycho-pedagogy at the Couvin teacher training college and at the University of Liège, and also studied visual arts (illustration) at Saint-Luc Institute of Liège, professional fashion illustrator since 1986 for Olivier Strelli, Gérald Wathelet, Marie-Claire, Flair, Knack, etc., fashion design teacher at LA CAMBRE and IFPME of Liège, professional graphic designer and painter, responsible for numerous projects (Brussels Expo Seville 1992, 80s rise of Belgian fashion – Cinquantenaire Museum, La Villégiature – Jean Villard Theatre, etc.), has lived and worked in France since 1994, a stone’s throw from Orval Abbey… has devoted himself primarily since 2003 to his pictorial research, inks and acrylics, and to Numerous exhibitions in Belgium, France, and elsewhere… [public commissions and works acquired internationally (Seville, Luxembourg, Canton, Saint-Maur, Avignon, Cinquantenaire Museum-Brussels, Montreal City Hall, etc.)].

Artistic approach:

Heavily influenced by artists as varied as Schiele, Belmeer, Zao Wou-Ki, Léonor Fini, Tiepolo, Alechinsky… a lover of drawing, of the great draftsmen of all time, whether in works with thick, liquid acrylic paint applied in “strasses,” or in ink paintings on mounted rice paper… search The essential, without cheating… to participate in the whole, to express the quintessence emanating from gestures, from bodies in dialogue… through an economy of means at work… a lover of Eastern arts, but so aware that, while the essential keeps us close, our world and our Western culture bring creation to a paroxysmal expression, reorganizing the chaos without excluding ourselves from it… “Painted drawings, mixtures of movement, dance, music, life to be experienced and shared… intentions become more precise and the technique, as it is refined, serves the encounter of its paradoxical obsessions better than ever. Between East and West, cave art and lyrical abstraction,” Murmurs and chaos, loves and succubi… a breath passes. The emotion it evokes remains, simply. As if it were possible to reconcile the timelessness of art as a search for beauty and truth, conceptualism and contemporaneity… “Tenmit HEINZ-TO

On the canvas or the marouflaged paper on wood, the pictorial gesture of Didier Goessens translates the vital momentum, the expression of an inner breath which is released in power. Paintings and drawings with nervous, refined, incisive graphics, mix the fluidity and dynamism of their scriptures. & Nbsp; plunged into creative trades from Hennuyère, Didier Goessens lives in France today, a few kilometers from Belgian Lorraine. Coming from a family that immerses him very early in the bubbling bath of academies where his parents teach the drawing, he travels these privileged places, practicing precociously with engraving, sketch, sculpture, photo … After training in psychopedagogy, his studies at the Saint-Luc Institute (Liège) lead him to practice an extraordinary profession, that of fashion illustrator (Marieclaire, Flair, Feeling, numerous collaborations with Olivier Strelli, Gérald Wathelet, Museum of the Cinquantenaire, Universal Seville 92 exhibition, …). Also a publicist, graphic designer, creator of sets, and fashion drawing teacher (La Cambre-Brussels, IFPMe-Liège). He is mainly dedicated to his work as a plastic artist, giving the beautiful share to series like the continuation of bulls and Centaurs, a set of compositions of a floral nature or variations on the theme of the couple. The school of masters, Didier Goessens learns rigor, devotes himself in particular to graphic research which is not without evoking oriental calligraphy or the parietal art. An atypical course of the creator, dominated by a constant practice of drawing, which he will gradually evolve towards lyrical abstraction. Sublir the bodies, to enlighten the curves of the color, punctuated by accents, series with nervous phrasing Take the look, accuracy of the tone, forces in balance. Didier Goessens mainly use inks, and diluted acrylics, playing with glacis effects, on panels, marouflaged calligraphy papers, or on canvases … feathers of geese, brushes and Chinese brushes, between East and West, rock paint and lyrical abstraction, murmur and shambles, love and succubi … a breath passes. The emotion he gives, simply remains. As if it were possible to reconcile the timelessness of art as looking for beautiful and true, conceptualism and contemporaneity.

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