Jacques Muller (1930-1997) was an extraordinary designer and engraver, fond of life and city ambience as well as start off. But where do you think you can find this kind of bustle of the city and its effects on men and daily life? There is only one place like that in the world, it is New York the City above all cities. When he arrived there in 1972 most of the early life illusions where already over but there was still music in the air because inside Big Apple all is possible. Jacques Muller worked in the streets just to catch any motion, any attitude. This old pupil of Saint-Luc Brussels, la Grande Chaumière Paris and Kokoschka in Austria will then completely change in method. He rushed forward into a new line to express his emotions, he was full of joy and this joy was hooked on every drawing he realised. Paintings, engravings and drawings from this happy period are presented here; some of them have never been exhibited. This jazz and cinema lover was also a great liberty fan. When he met the painter Jan Cox, also totally engaged on the American move, it was surely one of the famous moments in their life, for both of them. Jacques Muller travelled intensively but his main source of energy was in his art and his works are here to tell again what noble artist he was.

Anita Nardon