COLLECTIE

THE MUSICAL CHAIR

Ruben Bellinkx
In the film "The Musical Chair" we see a chair being attacked by three dogs. The dogs compete with each other to gain possession of it. Eventually the fight results in the destruction of the chair. This version is based on the 3-channel film installation version....

ALONG THE SIDES ALONG

Mira Sanders
Mira Sanders explores the potential of journeying to touch upon and visualise cultural, historical and sensory limits. For Along the Sides Along, Sanders retraces the boundaries of her own oeuvre by employing the methods of inventorising, cataloguing and exploration...

THE TOY SUN

Ken Kobland
A rumination on Time, with a capital "T". Time and its ravages, which really just means its progression, its nature. Set off by an "old" poem, a T.S. Eliot poem that’s literally haunted me for 30? or 40? yrs...even before I became an old man myself. (It’s an old man’s rumblings, and it never fails to move me...

L'esprit belge, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

L'ESPRIT BELGE

Angel Vergara
In ’L’esprit belge’, politicians, journalists and artists make an appearance. In a montage of historical images, including a number of drawings and paintings, Angel Vergara sketches a subjective historical frame in which Belgium is being discussed...

2012

Claude Cattelain
In 2012 Claude Cattelain puts a light bulb on his mouth and holds it with his teeth.  ...

INLAND VOYAGES IN AN INLAND VOYAGES

Mira Sanders
Navigating. We rarely think about it, and yet for most of us it is an everyday activity. Internet, Google Maps, GPS, etcetera: who can do without them? Mira Sanders was deeply touched by Robert Louis Stevenson’s travel story An Inland Voyage (1878). In it Stevenson relates how with a friend he paddled in a canoe from the Belgian town of Antwerp to Pontoise in France...

OBJETS PERDUS TROUVÉS

Mira Sanders
Early 2018, Mira Sanders created Théorie des Objets—a series of inkjet prints and drawings that translate her observations of objects, based on the book Théorie des Objets (1972) by Abraham A. Moles...

TVC Sonia, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

TVC SONIA

Angel Vergara
With his brush, Vergara traces cinematic images of the studio of Castelló’s local broadcasting station. The female host of a controversial program, whose father launched the station, is shown sitting in the studio. People can call her with complaints about other people. The scandal relating to Manuela Trasobares – see ’Manuela’ – first broke in this program....

ON DIRAIT UNE CAROTTE

Charley Case

THEO VAN DOESBURG [NELLY VAN DOESBURG]

Jef Cornelis
Annie Declerck presents the Theo van Doesburg exhibition organized by Jan Leering 1969 at the van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. A report is given on van Doesburg’s drawings, paintings, poems, thoughts, relations with Mondrian, Bauhaus and Futurism, the balance between his architectural and pictural structures, his personal relationships with other artists and his philosophy and death...