ABOUT
‘Louie Mauws is a young artist from Ghent. Mauws is a plastic thinker who expresses himself in painting and drawing. Starting from an as yet undeveloped form of intentionality, he investigates the formalistic recording. Not the registration, but the discovery, not the justification, but the questioning is central. He tries to distance himself from external conditioning and over-influencing. Louie Mauws searches for a preserved space where, without any predetermined goal, the beginning can take place. He chooses the act of painting in order to deal with one material and another. His starting point is an uncontrollability in which the painting begins to lead a life of its own. While painting, he creates both abstract signs and figurative forms, to which he responds each time by painting. In his first act, everything is brought into the open, whereby the medium makes it possible to correct his wrong action.’
EDUCATIONS
2017 – 2019 Postgraduate teacher training in the Audiovisual and Plastic Arts, Luca School of Arts, Gent, BE
2017 – 2018 Master in Fine Arts, Luca School of Arts, Gent, BE
2014 – 2017 Bachelor in Fine Arts, Luca School of Arts, Gent, BE
BOOKS
2020 "Paper drawings" (Upcoming)
EXHIBITIONS
2020 KUNSTHAL, Gent, BE, ‘Zomer Salon 2020 Buy Local’
2020 SOLO Galerie, Antwerpen, BE, ‘Relational Relevance’ / Yuna Lucas, Louie Mauws
2019 Geitstraat, Gent, BE, ‘HYDRA’ : Curatorial Studies project by Lenny Vervaecke / Anaïs Chabeur, Pieter Chanterie, Kasper De Vos,
Sam Gunst, Anthony Huberman / Wattis Research Group, Nanami Maeda, Louie Mauws, Yonas Seyoum, Maxim T. Delonghi,
Roeland Tweelinckx, Loïc Van Zeebroek
2019 Gallery Zwart Huis, Brussel, BE : ‘In Bloom’ / Pieter Chanterie, Antoine Goossens, Louie Mauws
2019 Ontsteking, Chinastraat, Gent, BE, ‘On (déca)de/ans/ce’
2019 Luca School of Arts, Gent, BE, ‘SHOTS : On (déca)de/ans/ce’
2018 Post-X, Antwerpen, BE, ‘Untitled’
2018 Luca School of Arts, Gent, BE, ‘SHOTS’
2018 DKO, Tielt, BE, ‘4+4’
2018 Paardenstallen, Kortrijk, BE, ‘Stimulans’
2018 Luca School of Arts, Gent, BE, ‘LOKAAL 22’
2017 019, Gent, BE, ‘Billboard Series #09: Martin Belou’
2017 Luca School of Arts, Gent, BE, ‘Sidderaal’
2017 CC Stroming, Berlare, BE, ‘SALE’
2017 Jan Colle Gallery, Gent, BE, ‘Ping pong’
2013 W139, Amsterdam, NL, 'Liberty inviting artists to take part'
RESIDENCE
2017 019, Gent, BE, ‘Billboard Series #09: Martin Belou’
2013 W139, Amsterdam, NL, 'Liberty inviting artists to take part'