Daniel Fauville
Born 1953, Charleroi, Belgium
Daniel Fauville is a painter, sculptor, print-maker and pastellist whose work spans decades and whose voice resonates in the context of European contemporary art. Born in the industrial region of Charleroi, he studied graphic and advertising arts at the IATA in Namur, plastic arts at the ICET in Charleroi, and further refined his mastery of screen-printing and engraving at the Academy of Fine Arts in Charleroi.
His work is deeply rooted in the visual memory of Belgium’s industrial heritage — steelworks, coal mines, trams, urban landscapes — yet transforms these into symbolic forms, metaphors for human experience. Fauville compresses these objects into simplified signs and structures: broken pillars, eroded flying buttresses, abandoned frames of factories.
He first exhibited personally in 1974 and quickly gained recognition. He represented Belgium at the 20th São Paulo Biennale in 1989 (alongside figures such as Pierre Alechinsky) and at the first Dakar Biennale, marking his emergence on the international stage.
Fauville’s works are held in both public and private collections across Belgium and beyond; his lithographs, paintings, sculptures and pastels continue to perform steadily at auctions and in galleries.
At Alt1550, Daniel Fauville embodies the convergence of form and memory—his work a rigorous dialogue between sign and structure, between the local and the universal. His practice enriches our curatorial constellation by offering a grounded, architectural sensibility that spans continents and eras.
Short Quotes
“I distil the industrial into sign, the familiar into symbol.”
“Even in steel and smoke there is a pulse of the human.”
“My work is the memory of place, re-inscribed in form.”
Artist Summary
Born: 1953, Charleroi, Belgium
Lives and works: Charleroi region
Mediums: Painting, sculpture, print-making, pastels
Selected Exhibitions & Highlights:
Personal exhibitions since 1974.
Represented Belgium at the 20th São Paulo Biennale, 1989.
Participation in major group exhibitions (Belgium & international).
Works in public collections and consistent presence in auction markets.
Keywords: Industrial memory · Symbolic architecture · European contemporary art · Print-making & sculpture
