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Dominique Ampe (Uccle, Belgium, 1944) lives and works in Breda and is a well-known painter, graphic artist, collagist, draughtsman and teacher at academy St.Joost. Ampe initially studied architecture in Brussels (1965-1968). Fairly soon, he switched to the applied graphics course at the academy of Mechelen (1969-1970). Impressions and memories play a major role in Ampe's work. Memories of rooms, landscapes, the villages of his youth, a school or studio. His paintings are set up in layers full of symbolic references to places and related events. Figures, texts, architectural elements and objects fill spaces stripped of people. In the process, he combines realistic elements with abstracted layers. He depicts the consequences of an action, giving a snapshot of time, as it were, but coloured with subjectivity and symbolism: atmospheric, sometimes oppressive but elusive. Comes from the collection of the municipality of The Hague, The Netherlands.