Art Creation bring to life
Jan Desmarets (Ypres, January 21 1961) is a Flemish beeldhouwer.Hij spent his childhood in Wervik. He studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. Master Jef Vermassen typifies this Flemish sculptor as follows: “He is enthused by the immense force, the intense beauty and sensual agility of certain animals and people that he otherwise could then use its own intensive strength to what is in his mind shot express in bringing his art creations to life “Jef Vermassen typifies this Flemish sculptor as follows: “he is enthused by the immense force, the intense beauty and sensual agility of certain animals and people that he can not but be own intensive force to use to express what is shot in his mind to bring his art and creations to life.”
Wedding gift for Prince Laurent
Desmarets was born in Ypres. He spent his childhood in Wervik. He studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. In 2003 he was commissioned by the then Prime Minister of Belgium Guy Verhofstadt to the wedding gift for Prince Laurent and Princess Claire.
Work in public places:
Jumping dog – Charleroi
Bayard – Dendermonde
Horsepower – Hasselt
The thick of Sesjans – Hemelveerdegem
Pardon – Kaprijke
People Tower – Maaseik
Wedding – Maarkedal
Sprinkler – Vilvoorde
Curonian Waregem – Waregem
Desmarets work is also seen in the Netherlands (Steigerend Ros in Susteren) and Germany (The Horse Trader in Neuenhaus). Work Desmarets was partly outside Belgium exhibited in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and France.
