Christian Silvain
Eupen, Belgium
20 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Kluisbergen
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Works by Christian Silvain
Christian Silvain was born in 1950 in Eupen, Belgium. When his parents lost interest in him, Christian Silvain spent most of his childhood with two elderly aunts, who from the age of three or four instilled in him a taste for drawing and painting. He would spend hours drawing and painting while his aunts ran their toy shop on the ground floor. In 1955 his parents divorced. He then went to primary school in Spa, where he learned French and where his talent for art was soon revealed. From 1957-1964, after school and later after work, he painted in the corner of an attic, in the general indifference, paintings that nobody looked at. More and more withdrawn into himself, sometimes abusing alcohol, the gulf between himself and his family grew ever wider. It was after discovering the work of Paul Delvaux that he finally decided that he would be a painter and nothing else. After the death of his two aunts, Silvain made a complete break with his family. He left for Brussels with no money. Not knowing anyone there, he began one of the most difficult periods of his life. A singer in his spare time, he begged for a living, living in a storeroom under the roofs of Rue au Beurre, near the capital's Grand Place. From 1967 onwards, he worked as a handyman at the Brussels Operetta Theatre in the northern quarter, and began restoring the roofs of the theatre.
2020 Memories of an Angel, Le Kulturzentrum Alter Schlachthof, Eupen (B) Galerie Ludwig Lefevere, Wortegem (B) Galerie Fox, Eupen (B) 2019 See you later , Galerie Martine Ehmer, Bruxelles (B) Memories of an Angel, Vichte (B) 2018 Gallery Michael Bohn; Eupen (B) Winter salon galerie Jos Depypere; Kuurne (B) 2017 Art Nocturne; Knokke (B) Rasson Art Gallery; Tournai (B) 2016 Galerie Pluskwa; Marseille (F) Malmundarium; Ville de Malmedy (B) Casteelken; Rumbeke (B) TW gallery; Musée de Liège (B) TW gallery; Luik (B) 2015 Lille Art fair - One man show (F) Galerie Martine Ehmer; Bruxelles (B) Galerie Depypere; Kuurne (B) 2013 One Man Show- Galerie Besseiche; Genève (CH) Retrospectieve Fondation Christian Silvain; Classic Event, Kortrijk (B) 2012 Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu; Sceaux (F) Oeuvres Récentes; Galerie du Centre; Paris (F) Galerie Jos Depypere; Kuurne (B) 2011 Galerie Libre Cours; Brussels (B) Art Elysées; Galerie du Centre; Paris (F) 2010 Galerie Epreuve d'Artiste; Antwerp (B) 2009 Galerie Liehrmann; Liège (B) Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu; Sceaux (F) 2008 Boon Gallery; Brussels (B) Galerie Depypere; Kuurne (B) 2007 Galerie Suty; Coye-la-Forêt (F) Classic; Kortrijk (B) 2006 Art Paris; Grand Palais; Paris (F) 2005 Classic; Kortrijk (B) Atelier Kunst und Bühne; Eupen (B) 2004 Galerie Depypere; Kuurne (B) Haus des Landschaftsverbands Rheinland; Cologne (D) Galerie Otéro; Saint-Paul-de-Vence (F) Klokhof; Kortrijk (B) 2003 Galerij Ooidonk Fine Art; Ooi