Philip Aguirre y Otegui

Philip Aguirre y Otegui (born 1961 in Schoten) is a Belgian artist who mainly works as a sculptor and painter.

His mother's family suffered under the German occupation and the persecution of Jews in Belgium during the second World War.

[3][4] In 2017 he won the International Award for Public Art for his 2010 installation Théatre Source in Douala, Cameroon.

[5] In 2015 a 45-minute documentary with a voice-over by Jan Decleir, about the making of this work was created by cineast Koen Van den Bril.

[4] His work is influenced by Frans Masereel (for the humanistic vision and the effort to bring art to the people), the sculptors Constantin Brâncuși and Alberto Giacometti, photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and contemporary Belgian artist Francis Alÿs.