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Born in 1940 in Chesnay, France.
Lives and works between Watermael-Boitsfort and Corloux (Gironde).
A truly natural artist, Jephan de Villiers taught himself sculpture by
observing. The chestnut tree leaves outside his bedroom when he was a
delicate child. Twigs in the garden. The Flies at the Musée d’Histoire
Naturelle. The works of Giacometti, Brancusi, Zadkine at the Musée
d’Art Moderne in Paris. In 1977 he came to Brussels, to the edge of the
Sonian Forest and embarked on his journey into “Arbonie”, a
civilisation that came straight from his imagination, dating way back
to before the Stone Age. |
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