Marc ANCKAERT is an artist for whom the expression “Lyrical Abstraction” could have been invented. In any case, the expression gives him authoritative significance and admirably suits him in the variety of techniques that are dear to him.
Firstly, there is engraving, which includes prints of a more classical nature, and works whose expansive forces are firmly held by many bonds, as if the artist feared that the instinctive forms of his creations might escape him.
These works give rise to paintings that shimmer with interlacing colours, a superbe alchemy whose movement creates a pearly ensemble where nevertheless one main colour dominates. It is curious and innovative, this sensation of pulsating, this exciting quivering with a vitality for which Marc ANCKAERT possesses the spell, and thanks to which he casts an imaginative world that is characterised either by serenity, or by a diabolical language, and at times even by a feeling of the power of nature and the elements.
André RUELLAN, critique d'art
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