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Daniel Moline, born in Carlsbourg in 1948, is a contemporary portrait and figurative artist who makes use of vivid colors and who has a strongly graphic style.

Biography
After taking part in workshops with Luc Perot in Namur, he moved to Japan in 1973, where he worked in decorating and opened his first studio in Nishiwaki. In 1981, he became a member of the Kokuten and worked with the painter Ryu Oda from Himeji, while being initiated in the art of calligraphy with the Zen monk Tainin Yukimura in Shobara. He presented works at the Kansaï Kokuten Competition in Kyoto in 1984 and had exhibitions in Himeji, Tokyo, Kyoto et Kobe, continuing his vision of synthesizing an expression where Oriental and Occidental arts could merge . This painting in amber , with strong, colors, vibrant to the point of reverberation, shows the traces of the calligraphic influences of the Buddhist monks as well as the constraints of matter but carries on to transform naturalism through a complex relation of colors and an insistence on scumble and glazing becoming finer and finer leading to the surrealisation of reality. As skillful as nature itself, his technique is that of his vision. Aiming for the diaphanous, Moline uses a minimum of matter and masters the use of transparency to span the heaviness of reality and reach beyond figuration .

After his return to Belgium with his Japanese wife in 1990, the painter set up his studio in Spa. He has presented regular exhibitions in Brussels first in the Montjoie gallery and then in “123…Art Now”. Just before the year 2000 he began to work on abstract compositions in black ink on white backgrounds, a Gutta cycle, with stains and diverse traces which are directly corporal and which he reworks daily in a continuous movement to and from between the hand and the eye. Since 2010 he has produced a series of women’s faces and large nudes in amber on black backgrounds . In 2017, working with Jean-Marie Cambier, he published 400 pages of reflections on art in a book entitled New wineskins for new wines ! and began publishing a workshop journal that he had begun writing upon arriving in Japan in 1973. The television station Télévesdre made him the subject of an album on 16th October 2017 .

Principal exhibitions

 * 2017: La Louve Gallery, Arlon, Belgium
 * 2017: Nao Gallery, Verviers, Belgium
 * 2007: Casino of Spa, Spa, Belgium
 * 2003: Manag’Art 2003, Brussels, Belgium (www.managart.be)
 * 2003: Rops Gallery, Namur, Belgium
 * 2002: Manag’Art 2002, Brussels, Belgium (www.managart.be)
 * 2000: 123…Art Now, Brussels, Belgium
 * 1999: Salon les ’30, Cistercian Abbey of Val Saint-Lambert, Belgium
 * 1999: Lez-Arts-Cachés Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
 * 1998: 123…Art Now, Brussels, Belgium
 * 1991: Montjoie Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
 * 1990: International Engraving Museum, Machida, Tokyo, Japon
 * Exposition_Moline,_Musée_Machida,_Tokyo,_avril_1990.jpg
 * 1990: Portiko Gallery, Port-Island, Kobe, Japan
 * 1989: Montjoie Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
 * 1989: Europalia Festival - Japan, Brussels, Belgium
 * 1989: Lineart, Gent, Belgium
 * 1987: Montjoie Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
 * 1987: Lineart, Gent, Belgium
 * 1985: Fettweis Gallery, Jalhay, Belgium
 * 1984: Tokyo museum (Ueno Park), Japan
 * 1983: Modern Art Museum of Himeji, Japan
 * 1982: Kyoto Municipal Museum, Japan