Lizène Jacques
born in 1946
videographer, actor, graphic designer, painter, musician, performer, media artist
As a self-declared ‘petit maître de la médiocrité’ [little master of mediocrity], for 40 years Jacques Lizène has been laughing at all overstatements within the aesthetic discourse, all pretensions of respectable serious art, all ideologies and all limiting classifications. In addition to sculptures, drawings, videos and music, Lizène produces numerous performances based on the meaninglessness of the gesture. In so doing he does not hesitate to re-interpret his own work according to the context that he is offered. In this way he creates an autohistoricity that is sometimes cheerful and sometimes ironical in nature.
source: http://www.mhka.be/toont_beeldende_kunst_detail.php?la=en&id=2764&subbase=archief&jaartal=2009
