Jean-Pierre ROSTENNE

Tout va bien sauf ce qui ne va pas was the motto of this atypical artist, a poetic thinker and key figure in a Brussels district that reflected his image: Les Marolles. There, he ran an all-purpose bookshop on a corner of Rue Haute. It is impossible to sum up his career with any certainty: he was a lieutenant in the Belgian army in the Congo in 1960; he spent time in Brazil, Rome, Paris and Switzerland; and for a number of years he had been making extraordinary walking sticks out of a variety of objects, which he used to stroll along the streets. In Africa