Marcel Ceuppens is an ex art director/graphic designer in Belgium. Here you see samples of his brilliantly economic, highly conceptual digital paintings.

Marcel tells me he began creating these beautiful works “because they give me the freedom to do whatever I want, and whatever I feel like”.

He is inspired by his passion for mid-century art, design and architecture.

And obviously quite talented with a digital paintbrush.

Marcel’s protagonist—his “everyman”—appears solo or with cookie cutter duplicity throughout these paintings. Each work possesses a specified narrative within a spare, minimalist context and no doubt is very communicative. It is easy to either directly relate, or be rather familiar with this universal character as he conforms to the expected norms of both life and work in an unresisting manner and as he passively observes out of the ordinary natural disasters. Our protagonist appears detached; he is faceless and nonemotive but we empathize with him nonetheless.

The Job

Eyjafjallajökull!

The Painter

Haïti!

The Trees 2

Francesco

Laureato in biblioteconomia, autore del volume sull'editoria underground italiana dal titolo "Underground: ascesa e declino di un'altra editoria 1966-1977" edito da Costa & Nolan e già collaboratore della rivista di collezionismo "Vintage" con una rubrica sulla poster art.