Discover the contemporary work of Benjamin DE GLIMME
Benjamin is a poet, painter, designer and engraver.
Since a very young age, he has devoted most of his free time to music. draw, paint and write poems and already have some experience more than a hundred to its assets.
He is also the only one to having translated during his lifetime some poems by a poet and writer friend: Cornelis Leonardus van der Pluijm (1954-2014). His translations are on dbnl, the Dutch digital literature library.
In 2015, he ranked; his passion for poetry for the benefit of drawing and painting. He creates spontaneously, in secret in his room which also serves as his workshop. À At the completion of each of his works, he feels its interiority. and must pause.
In July 2016, he created Tournillisme, an artistic movement. Tournillism is the absence of academicism, the absence of influence from any artistic movement whatsoever, it is a movement whose members are necessarily self-taught and whose works are full of spontaneity. Once the work is completed, it is inclined from left to right. right and from bottom to top until what its creator finds in his work another meaning that he wishes to share with his audience. Thus, the work of its creator can be presented to everyone. vertical even if this has been painted with horizontal. A work, painted, sculpted or photographed can, once tilted at a particular angle mean something completely different, bring to the public as well as to the public. its creator another universe to worn by hand, another dimension which gives a completely different meaning to his work. The spirit, the soul of the creator expresses itself in many ways and this revolutionary technique allows the members of whirling to detach themselves from all forms of conformism and confers incredible freedom. in the way of creating.
He is self-taught.
He has been an effective member of the Belgian National Council of Visual Arts since the beginning of 2016.
He is a full member of the society. Belgian philosophy since October 18, 2016.
It is a sponsor of the friends of the Belgian Museum of Freemasonry.