Éric Bassleer & Thomas Stiernon (Mon Colonel & Spit)

During the 90s, Éric Bassleer aka Mon Colonel (born in Liège in 1974) and Thomas Stiernon aka Spit (born in Liège in 1977) worked as graffiti artists in the Liège collective ‘The ERS’.

In 2007, following the break-up of the group, the Belgian artist duo formed Mon Colonel & Spit. Their artistic practice spans a wide range of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture and ceramics. Most of the time, the works produced using these different techniques are brought together in the form of installations. These reflect their universe, with references to everyday life, comic strips, popular and urban cultures, all bathed in a joyful naivety, imbued with irony, humour and irreverence.

In 2015, the duo won the Commission des Arts de Wallonie prize for presenting glazed terracotta pottery covered with texts and drawings similar to their paper works. They then began attending classes run by ceramic artists Dominique Matagne and Gilette Fosty.

In 2017, Mon Colonel & Spit exhibited sculptures and a whole series of ceramic artefacts for the first time at the MIMA museum in Brussels. This installation, entitled ‘Show no thanks’, is the genesis of 40 years of life, artistic sensibility, memories, experiences and encounters that have made them artists. For the duo, the exhibition became a real trigger for their practice, in which the art of ceramics takes an almost exclusive place.