EKKIZ

ART BRUT IN A BRUTAL WORLD

The artwork of Ekkiz (Paul Van Hoorick) serves as a patch on a wooden leg, as a plaster for the hopeless cases. Feel free to call it rum and morfine for the lost souls. Ekkiz sees art as a drug to survive. Against better judgment.

Clear echoes from Havana and Lampedusa can be heard throughout all of his work. Which is not surprising considering the artist spends a lot of time there. Ekkiz is self-taught and resides partly in Belgium, partly in Havana.