André POBÉ was born in the Brussels surrounding in 1945.  He has studied at the "Académie des Beaux Arts" of Mons,  under the direction of the painter Gustave CAMUS and with following teachers :  Edmond DUBRUNFAUT,  Gabriel BELGEONNE,  Gustave MARCHOUL,  André HUPET and Zéphyr BUSINE.  He kept close to the MAKA Group,  Charles SZYMKOWICZ,  Daniel PELLETTI,  Christian LEROY and Yvon VANDYCKE... He started as a graphist and oriented afterwards his career definitely towards painting.  Since more than 30 years, he has participated at numerous exhibitions, mainly in Belgium.

With André POBÉ,  we enter into a transcendent world.  The reality seems to be constructed starting from a chaos.  His paintings are elaborated following his state of mind.  He glances at everything,  his thoughts are boiling.  Like an alchemist,  he transforms the reality by diving in a parallel world,  there where time stops,  there where the values recover their purity. Along his initiatory way,  his works reflected the storms he crossed,  the quiet mornings which calmed him.  His research is internal but it leads him doubtless to the Outside,  to the Other,  to the Serenity.  His painting art shows his research of Light.  All the time,  he advances towards this aim and his dream is to be able to understand the source of it,  which might be the INFINITY.  He thinks he is close to it and at the moment he tries to catch it,  it disappears slightly and only an emptiness remains.  And it is maybe THERE that everything is created. In each painting,  we feel his desire,  his need to go till the end,  the end of the road, (the end of eternity?).  The enigma is always there.  It is up to us to guess the message he wants to give to us,  to where he wants to take us.  His cats  (but are it cats?  are it women?)  glance at us.  Inquisitors?  Initiators?  They dive in us,  looking for our own answers. After a period arround a mysterious Venice, with fascinating but also anguishing masks, André Pobé turns towards something essential for him: Light. In this quest, in this ceaseless pursuit, he gets rid of all objects that could divert attention from that Light. One feels inevitably attracted by these recent works, surrounded by beneficent light-particles.