Paul Van Gysegem

Born in Berlare in 1935, Paul Van Gysegem is a sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, painter and jazz double bassist. Trained at the academies of Ghent and Antwerp, he won the East Flanders provincial prize three times (1959, 1960, 1961) and taught sculpture at the Ghent Academy. His welded-metal sculptures explore freedom and confinement, tension and resistance.