DIRECTORY 2025

Marc Brousse | Drawing & Illustration

Marc Brousse's artistic approach is based on architecture, which he sees as a form of expression that can be integrated into an artistic movement. His first notable influence was his fascination with the art of building, which forms the basis of the history of civilizations, religions, and myths. Marc Brousse has developed an artistic language known as 'traitillism', capturing the line in its living form to create allegories between man, his architecture and that of Nature. His works on paper are created using Indian ink (rotring) and graphite. Each piece is drawn by free hand and with the naked eye.  He accompanies each piece of urban poetry with a brief literary note, an 'instant poem' that allows our imagination to resonate with the works and recalls the memory of the places illustrated. His artistic thought is inspired by the work of M.C. Escher and his work on cylindrical perspectives, F. Schuiten and his futuristic, melancholy cities, J.B. Piranesi and his pictorial representations of Rome, J.J. Lequeu and his timeless architectural fantasies, and Leon Battista Alberti's treatise De Architectura. 

Marc Brousse (b 1984 in Marmande, France) currently lives and works in Brussels. In 2010, he graduated as an architect from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. Since 2016, he combines his work as an architect with an artistic practice. Marc Brousse has been awarded several artistic prizes. His most recent solo exhibition, 'Architecture sauvage' (2023), was held at Galerie Alienor Provost in Brussels, Belgium. He has also taken part in several group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad.

www.marcbrousse.com
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