Jan Theuninck
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Belgian painter an poet, Jan Theuninck (Zonnebeke, June 7, 1954), is a cosmopolitan versatile artist.
Abstract painter, he has been influenced by Ellsworth Kelly and Joan Miro (abstract amoebic shapes,delicate lines, pure color and hard-edge style).His work, in relation with the World System Analysis, is about old and new colonialism,
mass and society, the international migration society, pacifism, the jews and the holocaust,etc .
Critical works are : "white niggers" : a denunciation of colonial and modern abuses; referring to the slave mentality described by Nietzsche - he says about himself : " I am a white nigger" ; "fagospatose" is about the european political situation where the red ones are eaten up by the black ones ; "homo multiculturalis" is a philosophical work to express the surplus value brought by the eclecticism of many different cultures ; "wargasm" : the psychoanalysis of a warrior ( Dutch museum for peace)[1] (http://www.vredesmuseum.nl/galerie/wargasm.html);
"beyond the limit" ( they went too far ) : remembers 9.11 and "holocaust" which forms an ecphrastic unit with his poem "shoa"
[2] (http://www.boekgrrls.nl/BgDiversen/Onderwerpen/gedichten_over_schilderijen.htm).
Poet and poessayist,also known under the pen name of
ORC (°1954), a few of his poems became famous e.g. "Stalag Zehn B", "Papirac", "Yperite", "Tyne Cot" and "Shoa", which is an early warning against ideological hate .Native speaker in Dutch, he writes in French, sometimes in English. His poems can be found in many languages and on countless web sites, e.g. The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation [3] (http://www.raoul-wallenberg.org.ar/english/wallenbergaroundtheworld-belgica.htm).
Jan Theuninck's poetry has also appeared in poetry journals and magazines in the U.S.A. and abroad, among them, Indiejournal, Poetry Super Highway, PoetryRepairShop, The Muse Apprentice Guild, Webdelsol, Peshekee, Megaera, Noalibipress, Vlqpoetry,Themoonwortreview, Poetrylifeandtimes, Planetauthority, Motherbird, Wordswordswords,etc.
Poetry about WW1 and WW2 on [4] (http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/english/poetry/jan.htm).nl:Jan Theuninck