Inspired by Pieter Brueghel’s engravings of the seven deadly sins, this work is a moralizing but surprisingly poetic display of constant ingenuity where men, women, animals, transformed creatures, hybrid characters, giants and phantasmagorical constructions coexist in a delirious and perfect harmony.

In Les sept péchés capitaux; apart from the ingenious beauty of Brueghel’s drawings, Antoine Roegiers is fascinated by the representation of space. Scene after scene, he travels painstakingly through each of Brueghel’s seven drawings picking out detailed components of scenery and traits of personalities which are ingeniously recreated, reinvented and reproduced in a series of ink drawings.

The artist’s project is to bring the viewer inside the drawings and lead him to discover Brueghel’s world through the technique of animated cinema on seven screens, each of which presents a narrative animation of one of the Seven Deadly Sins.