To use recycled materials, shells, stones, glass, buttons, wire, copper, and much more, to create toys is what this Belgian artist succeeds in doing. The most disparate materials recycled, observing the diverse facets and thinking about an object of compound forms, Johan succeeds in creating sculptures, not too small, that because of their assembly give back forms of grotesque insects, halfway that is between the fearsome and the comic. It is in the awe of discovering all the materials used that the wonderful breaks out. Looking at these strange invertebrates we begin to think that the artist is some magic flute player that has attracted them to himself. And there we have the ludic universe from which this artist feeds unveil itself little by little. Funny or frightening images, tender or terrible beings that populate his fantasy and that materially created can finally live in his playrooms. The rooms of memory and dreams, but mostly of hope where anything, even the most unlikely, can exist, discuss, send messages. '€œThe marvelous can flow also from the encounter of an umbrella and a sewing machine on an anatomic table'€쳌 recited Isidore Ducasse, count of Lautrémont in the Cants de maldoror, a century and a half ago. That means that the beautiful in an esthetic sense can be born also from the paradox and from the absurd as long as it justifies itself in a sublime sense and makes itself a witness of a conceptual operation.
