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Christian Dugardeyn known as the artist Duga, born in august 1963 in Brussels in Belgium, is a painter, sculptor and draughtsman.

Biography
Already as a child, he was attracted to the visual art. Later, he enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine and the "Académie royale des beaux-arts de Bruxelles" and becomes radiologist and artist. He expresses himself mainly through drawing, painting and sculpture. He uses the "continuous line" to express his basic emotions while being unaware of the situation. He explains that the main goals of his artistic approach are spontaneity and instinct, while he experiments with many other avenues over time. He says he is constantly looking for anything that can help him understand the human being a little better.

For him, the exhibitions of Dubuffet and Chaissac were both a shock and a major revelation. They transmitted to him one of the foundations of his artistic approach: spontaneity and instinct. Through numerous experiments both in the type of support and in the materials used, he investigates Man, destructures him, deforms him until he reaches a limit between figuration and abstraction (figurabstraction). According to him, it is by distorting things that one comes closest to the truth.

Personal exhibitions
2022


 * Vincent Bonduelle contemporary art: "Human Nature" by Duga November 2022, Lille Château Cheneau, Braine l'Alleud, December 2022

2021


 * Breathing / Gallery "Les Ecuries" - Waterloo, Belgium

Group exhibitions
2016


 * Rollebeek Gallery June-July 2016