Marcel Ceuppens
After a successful career in advertising as an artistic director, Marcel Ceuppens became a full-time artist in 2012, first as illustrator, then as a painter. Sleek lines, a reduced range of colours, bowler hats and touches of formica: the artist draws directly from the codes of art and design of the 1950s to create his prints.
Marcel Ceuppens is attracted to contemporary art and is a great fan of Pop art, but mid-century design had a major impact on him. He is inspired not only by painting or sculpture, but also by architecture, design, photography, film or music. It is easy to see through his work influences such as Calder, Picasso, Le Corbusier and Henry Moore, as well as being very contemporary.
Marcel Ceuppens' past as an advertiser is expressed in the lively, daring and luminous style of his art. In his highly conceptual digital paintings, he often explores themes of disconnection, complacency and detachment as a universal aspect of daily existence. Many of his works are centred around a faceless man dressed in a costume, located in various dreamlike places. This paintings ask the question of our place in the world.
His work takes a new direction in 2013, with a series of neo-modernist paintings. Larger, more colourful and more extroverted, he creates less conceptual compositions. He works and re-works his abstract compositions by moving, sliding, changing and shaping the confusing coloured shapes in any possible position and direction until it works.
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Marcel CeuppensComposition 5/5, 2019Archival pigment print70 x 100 cm (28 x 43 in)Edition of 10 -
Marcel CeuppensComposition 28/11, 2019Archival pigment print70 x 100 cm (28 x 43 in)Edition of 10
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Marcel CeuppensMan with Model, 2019Archival pigment print76 x 55 cm (30 x 22 in)Edition of 15
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Marcel CeuppensSeated nude, 2019Archival pigment print70 x 100 cm (28 x 43 in)Edition of 20
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Marcel CeuppensComposition 14/04, 2019Archival pigment print76 x 55 cm (30 x 22 in)Edition of 15
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Marcel CeuppensComposition 26/04, 2019Archival pigment print76 x 55 cm (30 x 22 in)Edition of 15
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Marcel CeuppensComposition 12/05, 2019Archival pigment print70 x 100 cm (28 x 43 in)Edition of 10
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Marcel CeuppensComposition 24/01, 2019Archival pigment print47 x 31 cm (18 x 12 in)Edition of 75
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Marcel CeuppensComposition 20-03, 2019Archival pigment print47 x 31 cm (18 x 12 in)Edition of 50
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Marcel CeuppensComposition 21/01, 2019Archival pigment print47 x 31 cm (18 x 12 in)Edition of 75
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Marcel CeuppensSeated Nude #2, 2018Archival pigment print47 x 31 cm (18 x 12 in)Edition of 15
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Marcel CeuppensNude with ball (Gold version), 2018Archival pigment print47 x 31 cm (18 x 12 in)Edition of 75
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Marcel CeuppensComposition 22/3, 2016Archival pigment print84 x 65 cm (33 x 25 in)Edition of 15
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Marcel CeuppensAbstract Composition, 2014Archival pigment print31 x 47 cm (12 x 18 in)Edition of 75
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Art on paper
Group show Sep 17 - Oct 4, 2020With the advent of digital technology, paper was thought to have gradually disappeared. But in the past few years, be it through advertising, editorials or set designs, paper in all its forms has experienced a genuine renaissance. We thus wanted to pay homage to drawing and all types of art on paper.Read more -
Line & colour
Group show Sep 12 - Oct 15, 2019The summer holidays are over and we are craving for art that transcends form, appeals to our emotions and allows us to forget for a moment the reality of the...Read more
Since 2014, Marcel Ceuppens lives and works in New York. His background as an art director in advertising has given him a keen eye for graphic design, and he is proving to be just as skilled as an artist, his works having met immediate success at art fairs around the world.
SOLO & GROUP SHOWS
2020
The Billboard Creative, Los Angeles
K+Y Paris
2019
Brooklyn Gallery, New York
AAF Hampstead, UK
The other Art Fair New York Spring
2018
The other Art Fair New York Fall
The Affordable Art Fair New York
The other Art Fair Spring
2017
Scope Miami
The Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series
Allouche Gallery New York
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences
New Britain Museum of American Art
2016
National Arts Club New York
The Affordable Art Fair New York
The Affordable Art Fair Brussels
Palm Beach Art Show
2015
The Affordable Art Fair New York
Art Hamptons 2015 New York
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair
Los Angeles Art Show
2014
Scope Miami
The Affordable Art Fair New York
Art Hamptons, New York
The Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair
2013
The Affordable Art Fair Brussels
The Affordable Art Fair Singapore
Art International Zürich
The Affordable Art Fair New York
Monika Olko Gallery, Sag Harbor New York
Art Hamptions 2013 New York
Lille Art Fair
Charlotte Van Lorreinen Gallery, Brussels
The Affordable Art Fair Brussels
2012
Art Ghent 2012
The Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam
The Affordable Art Fair New York
Brussels Accessible Art Fair
The Louise Night, Brussels
The other Art Fair, London
Antwerp Accessible Art Fair
The Affordable Art Fair Brussels
2011
Brussels Accessible Art Fair
Artemptation Gallery, Brussels