Jean-Marie Heyligen (Ath, Belgium, 1961) is a polymorphic artist: painter, etcher, sculptor. For over forty years, with endless patience he has played the role of saying everything that really matters in a way that is beyond words – stunned faces, abandoned and naked bodies, Indians from another world, knights from another time, all drawn into the irresolute enigma of shapes, strokes, materials, colours, images and things. The long-lasting theme of Jean-Marie Heyligen’s work is organised knick-knacks, constantly metamorphosing due to everything we secretly go through from childhood to adulthood.

After arriving at the Trinkhall Museum in 2002 as part of a monographic exhibition devoted to Jean-Marie Heyligen, the monumental sculpture is on show at the entrance and is now the guardian of the Museum.