March 4, 2019
"CE SEA N'EST PAS UNE PIPE"
by Klaas Van der Linden
Belgian artist Klaas Van der Linden started painting graffiti in the late '90s at age 12, eventually earning a Masters degree in graphic arts in Ghent in 2014. Equally comfortable painting on canvas or on walls, Vander der Linden's small paintings of people and objects around him often become the basis for his mural work. In 2016 he painted a small maritime self portrait, and sure enough, a month later that work was transformed into this mural in Brussels. Painted on Rue Montagne du Parc the work was one of a series by 40 portrait artists participating in the "Interfaces" project sponsored by the Urbana team—a group dedicated to representation in Brussels by the the most diverse possible set of disciplines and aesthetics. @klaasvanderlinden/ @urbana_project/
