In the cortensteel wall of the new library in Zonnebeke, Belgium, you can read a poem by Belgian painter and poet Jan Theuninck with the title Tyne Cot, named after Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces on the continent.

 

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Bio

 

Jan Theuninck was born in 1954 and lives in Zonnebeke, Belgium

 

Belgian painter and poet and a native speaker of Dutch, he writes in French and occasionally English. His painting is abstract, falling somewhere between minimalism and monochrome expressionism.As a painter, he has been influenced by Ellsworth Kelly and Joan Miró. His work in both media is guided by his social and political convictions, dealing with topics such as colonialism old and new, mass and society, and pacifism.

 

 

 

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