LA MAGIE DE LA LUMIERE: ANTONIA LAMBELE

Antonia Lambelé, a Belgian national, was born in 1943 in Great Britain. From a young age, she was drawn to constructivism, concrete art, and geometric abstraction. She received training in drawing at the Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Academy and then enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels in 1979, where she pursued sculpture courses until 1981. Lambelé began her career with direct carving on black marble. In the early eighties, she ventured into sculptural experiments with plexiglas. Her creations have a strict and geometric structure. Her research then shifted towards spatial and chromatic possibilities through relief work. She had her first solo exhibition at the Cultural Center of Brussels in Neder-over-Heembeeck in 1986, followed by numerous group and solo exhibitions, including those in the Gardens of the Van Buuren Museum in Brussels. In 1987, the artist joined the Convergence Gallery in Paris, which opened doors to collectors of concrete art and allowed her to meet artists like Jo Delahaut and Aurélie Nemours. She gained recognition in the Netherlands through the De Vierde Dimensie Gallery in 1991 and collaborated with the MADI movement, an acronym for Movement, Abstraction, Dimension, Invention.

 

Antonia Lambelé was featured at the Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach in 2020 during the BELGIAN WOMEN exhibition, alongside Berthe DUBAIL, Francine HOLLEY, Gisèle VAN LANGE, and Marthe WÉRY.