Jan Theuninck

Jan Theuninck (born the June 7th 1954), artist-painter and cosmopolitan poet. Born with Zonnebeke in Belgium, he writes in French, and sometimes in English, although he is Néerlandophone. Its social and political convictions play a determining role, as well in its poetries as in its abstract paintings. Its multiple international contacts gave him a vision on the current society which exceeds the culture of an enthusiasm moutonnier. Known poems: Keep silent yourself! , Stalag Zehn B, Yperite, Shoa, Papirac.

Influenced by Joan Miro and Ellsworth Kelly, the painter evolves/moves between a Minimalisme and a monochromic Expressionisme.

The broad topics are found in its abstract paintings: Holocaust, Colonialism, international migration and Pacifism.

Some works: white niggers (white Negro) where he highly criticizes the colonial situation and the abuses in our contemporary company (he says itself: “I am a white Negro”), beyond the limit : a possible epistemological paradigm, fagospatose on the political situation, wargasm or psychoanalyze it of a warrior, Homo multiculturalis T. : a rather philosophical work and Holocaust which forms a ecphrastic unit with its poem Shoa .

External bonds

'' Holocauste '' of Jan Theuninck - Poems on Art
Museum of Peace, Netherlands
Several works of Jan Theuninck
Poems on the Great War
Poems on the Holocaust

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