Given Word – meeting with Arthur Cordier

“I worked in an advertising agency: I hate advertising,” declares the artist. From this experience was born my interest in the study of landscapes, urban contexts, as well as market relations between individuals, and particularly how growth and decline intertwine as two ambivalent notions, both economic and botanical. Concretely, my work includes coffee (a lot), office plants (sometimes), and—for several years now—a series of landscape paintings created using large-format truck tarps, shoom polish, and adhesive vinyl.” Arthur Cordier holds a degree in Espace Urbain from ENSAV La Cambre, and a Master's degree in Recherche Artistique from the Académie Royale of Fine Arts de La Haye in the Netherlands. Since 2023, his studio has once again been located in Brussels.