ABOUT

SCRIVO

Belgian Non Configuration Painter.
1942-Present
Belongs as a painter to that group of artists who express their emotions in a direct artistic language. His paintings are always a rendition of his state of mind on that particular moment. Nothing is controlled, it is a spontaneous eruption of his complex mind.
With fast, nervous brushstrokes, once feverish, once fearful and sometimes applied peacefully, he narrates in intense colors about tenderness, warmth, music.
Often it is a cry as a reaction against events that hurt him. This is for the artist the only and right way to communicate his message and allows him to eternalize his vision on the canvas.
About his works with the title: “Life’s different roads” the artist tells: “These works are all made for the pure pleasure of painting.
On this moment I forget time and my only communication happens through the lines that I paint. I want to bring the line to life, so that she would exist in itself to travel as a line through my canvas while she shows my emotions of this particular moment.
For me the line is the God of painting. I want to put it on a throne before the canvas.
The artist describes his work as a whole in the following way: “Actually I’m a very classical painter. I paint lines between four lines. I transfer my emotions and preoccupations with a gestual spontaneity on the canvas. 
The lines that result from this movement reflect no pictorial configuration but form a whole, as a kind of fingerprint that reflects a perfect self-portrait.”
Scrivo succeeded in casting away the achievements of others from him, ban, release in the flood of evolutions. He has abandoned all styles, all schools, all -isms. He paints himself free from the heritage that others have left. 
He doesn’t reject this heritage because it is eventually constituted from the elements that he uses, but from his painterly fought freedom, he gives these elements another dimension.
Life and Work
1959
1964
1960 – Present
He started working in 1964 for the City of Brussels, as organizer of exhibitions.
Evening courses at the Academy of Brussels 
Artistic Development
The evolution of Scrivo’s visual language from the 1960s to the present.
EXHIBITIONS
  • M.V.B. Brussels Museum of Warschau Ministère de la Culture Française Ajuntament de Valldemossa Mallorca España Museum Antioquia Colombia K.B.W.B. Brussels

…and other group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad.

PRESS
“When we look calmly at the paintings of Scrivo, we inevitably are carried away to another world that lets us forget the dark grey surroundings in which we live and we see the sun, the light and the colour. A true colour therapy”.

H. Reinhard

COLLECTIONS

    Discovery works by Scrivo by decade.

     “Actually I’m a very classical painter. I paint lines between four lines. I transfer my emotions and preoccupations with a gestual spontaneity on the canvas. The lines that result from this movement reflect no pictorial configuration but form a whole, as a kind of fingerprint that reflects a perfect self-portrait.”