Roger Nellens, a Belgian painter, was born in Liège in 1937 and passed away in Knokke-Heist in 2021. He was self-taught and made his debut in painting in 1960. Influenced by Permeke at first, he began painting trains and signals under the guidance of P. Delvaux. From 1969, his “Imaginary Machines” were born. The press states, “R.N., along with artists such as Picabia, Duchamp, Ernst, and Tinguely, pursue the delusions of machines. What was meant to assist us has now overshadowed mankind,” and “at R.N.’s hand, the aggression of machines is lost; he illustrates their poetic dimension and thus established a wholly unique iconography.” Nellens’ work can be found at the Museum of Ostend and Le Tropoliain in the Gribaumont metro station of Brussels. He is referenced in the Lexicon of West Flemish Visual Artists I, BAS I, and Two Centuries of Belgian Artist Signatures.
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