Jean Pierre Husquinet was born in Ougrˇe, Belgium and studied Art at the Royal Academy for Arts in Li¸ge between 1973 and 1979. He is a painter, a musician, a sculptor, a printer and an editor. In 1979, he began to specialise in silk screen-printing and in 1982 began to work in a geometric way. He is co-founder and co-editor of the magazine "Mesures Art International". His first works using rope date from 1993 with an installation in the woods of Horion-Hozˇmont in Belgium. In 1995, he began teaching at the art school of Valenciennes in France. He exhibits regularly, mainly making installations in different sites, natural and industrial, throughout Europe, and in Korea, Russia, Estonia, Senegal where he also makes musical performances. In 1998, he realized his first audio CD with four musicians and is preparing another one also in relation to the visual work. He also took part in two books with the poets Julien Blaine and Dominique Sampiero and many portfolios with various artists and is now working on a new "kind of" catalogue, between anthropology and modernity.