Jimmy Pauli

   ART SCHOOLS

   2001-2009: Royal Academy of Fine Arts Dendermonde Sculpting

   1984-1988: Sint Lucas School of Architecture Gent Interior Architecture

   1981-1984: Sint Lucas School of Arts Gent Day School

   1978-1981: Royal Academy of Fine Arts Bruges 3 evenings a week

   1976-1977: Royal Academy of Fine Arts Bruges 1 afternoon a week

   EXHIBITIONS

   2017 : Prima Mostra Opwijk Solo Show

   2018 : Art in Empty Houses Opwijk Group Show

   2019 : Art in Gardens Grembergen Group Show

   2019 : Art in Empty Houses Mazenzele Group Show

   2019 : The Middlepoint Opdorp Group Show

   2020 : KIK (Kunst In Knokke) Knokke Solo show

   2021 : Light (corona edition) Opwijk Group show

   2022 : Thinking Out Of The Box Opwijk Solo show

  2024 ; Art in Empty Houses Opwijk Group Show

   INTERVIEW

   2020 : Kunstpoort by Bert Vannoten for the KIK exhibition 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqFWAy5JWjc&t=3s 

2023 Open Studio Days 2023  Ring TV Brussel

 https://www.ringtv.be/beeldende-kunst/een-voorsmaakje-van-atelier-beeld-dit-weekend-kunstenaar-jimmy-pauli-uit-opwijk

2025Open Studio Days 2025 Cultuur Noordrand Brussel 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJpD4NrsYsJ/

After studying in many artistic disciplines and training in art schools, I began to study sculpture around twenty years ago because it was the only visual art that I hadn't practiced until then. As an interior designer I already had to draw a lot, it was an ideal change. 

From the first day, I was fascinated by the fact that suddenly all my ideas which until then had always been conceived in 2 dimensions were suddenly filling the space and you could feel the material. 
Furthermore, during this apprenticeship I developed a huge fascination with abstracting the human body in different ways and in doing so I am constantly experimenting to see how far a human body can be abstracted without losing its human aspect and become purely formal. On top of that, sometimes I want to make the sculpture alive by creating multiple movement sculptures to create stop-motion movies. 
As I created more and more sculptures, I also began to experiment with different materials that are rarely used in classical sculpture. As a result, I developed my own way of working. After a first sketch, my first preliminary studies are always made in modeling wax so that I can work on them in peace and without time constraints until the perfect shape appears. Then I can choose the medium on which I can enlarge the image or simply finish the study. They are cast in solid plaster molds. The wax is melted out, then poured with a mixture of massive polyester and various additives depending on the final look I want to achieve, bluestone, rust, metal, etc.
In recent years, I've focused primarily on new themes like connectedness, but in my signature visual language: clean geometric figures that, when separated, become two or more human-like figures. This has a dual meaning, both in the figures themselves and in the interpretation or multifunctional arrangement of the sculptures. The sculptures can be adapted to the mood of the users.