Jean-Marie Bytebier -AB.ad. m was an unemployed

was an unemployed

With contributions from Michael Boßdorf

The young photographer uses archival footage found online as a starting point

This chronological perspective may well be the most revealing approach to the artist and his rather melancholy work

fascinated by the relationship between nature and mankind

Jean-Marie Bytebier -AB.ad. m was an unemployedJean Marie Bytebier (1963) is a Belgian artist, whose work references several 20th century painting traditions in which the unfinished and the notion of absence play prominent parts. With his paintings Bytebier creates an intriguing world of often undetermined landscapes; a foliage of silent and blurry spaces devoid of human beings but in which the cultural remnants of humanity subtly seep through. Three decades of artistic practice are now gathered