Wayne Horse is no street artist … anymore. In the 1990s, the German painter started his career in the graffiti scene before moving to the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and moving into other art forms. But his style, as crude as it is grotesque, is so closely related to James Ensor’s oeuvre that we did not have to ask twice if he didn’t want to take on another wall in Ostend. Horse was even willing to make two murals in full colour – for the first time in his career! And when you then also add his mocking dissection of flawed man, the establishment and the church, it’s easy to understand why he is a – note the pregnant women – child of Ensor.
