Roby Comblain is a Belgian artist born in 1955 in Bujumbura, Burundi. He is a visual artist and scenographer. A graduate in scenography with great distinction in 1977 at ENSAV/La Cambre, he has produced numerous scenographies for shows and set-ups for exhibitions.
Until 1999, he devoted himself to personal research (sculptures, stones, wood, drawings) and to learning the printed image. He then opened his studio and devoted himself to his personal work. Since then, each year, exhibitions, personal and collective, follow one another. Roby Comblain is therefore neither completely engraver nor completely sculptor, rather a scenographer.
His engravings, understood as mechanical multiples, are only the starting point of his work. Then comes the moment of the setting in space, on the ground or on the wall, and of the dialogue. The work, alive, then changes form and function (disruptive) according to its exhibitions. Since 2020, he has created the engraved magazine HOLZ with Olivier Deprez.