Eric Mangen is a self-taught Luxembourgish artist who first gained recognition through street art and graffiti. After several artist residencies in Australia, the United States, and across Europe, as well as regular collaborations with other contemporary artists, he returned to Luxembourg in 2013. While continuing to work on mural projects, he has since devoted himself entirely to abstract painting. His practice, however, moves away from geometric abstraction and instead seeks to convey the immediate energy of gesture, in the lineage of Action Painting. The use of spray paint introduces an additional distance from the surface, allowing for accidents to occur. The artist then balances the composition by softening his works through powdery bursts and rhythmic interweavings left partly to chance. He compares his pictorial language, marked by the speed of execution, to a dance between impulsive momentum and controlled restraint. With a dynamic and sensitive graphic approach as its foundation, Éric Mangen remains above all an intuitive artist, free from fixed rules.