COLLECTIE

THE CURSE

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter
In the same minimalist style that would later on characterize 'The Bucket’ (2001) and 'The Spinning Wheel’ (2002), 'The Curse’ tells Maria’s unhappy story. After giving birth to her first child, she has mysteriously lost her husband’s love. The situation is as tragic as absurd, the universe it deals with as grotesque and enigmatic as alienating...

Mercado mixte, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

MERCADO MIXTE

Angel Vergara
Vergara is standing on a plaza and taking a stroll through the market and the street. He is holding a brush, which he is using to trace what he sees on an imaginary canvas. One half of the image is the actual video recording, and the other half is an animated version. Vergara gives two fish vendors a brush as well, which they use to do as he does, to imitate him...

ETIENNE ELIAS

Jef Cornelis
The artistic style of Etienne Elias is very wide and it has taken various turns over the course of his life, with new forms and other accents. But his art is always driven by his colourful imagination, drawing its inspiration from his immediate surroundings, his friends and his habitat Ostende. Pictorially he visualises all of this as he sees it with his shifting artistic sense...

THE SWANS

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte lures swans with pieces of bread and then throws tomato sauce at them from a bucket. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...

MADONNA WITH CHILD

Nicolas Provost
A very personal, fairly explicit and worrying portrayal of the birth of Christ....

A FLUXUS ELEGY

Ben Patterson
One-sided LP in an edition of 345 copies. "The new Ben Patterson piece, issued on Alga Marghen’s VocSon series, is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa...

EFFORT SQUARE

Aglaia Konrad
A single-channel adaptation of the ’Tomorrow Square’ installation, consistsing of two projection screens, each of them show eight respective hours of metropolitan cityscapes...

THE BRIDGE (1)

Monsieur Delmotte
Delmotte hangs over a bridge and shits on the highway. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...

PROPELLER

Roy Villevoye
Somewhere in the jungle op Papua lies an old propeller.It is an important object for the small Papuan tribe that lives with it.How did it get there?Through the stories of the sister of a deceased American missionary, a Papuan cultural chief and an aged American former pilot the enigma of the propeller is slowly being unraveled in this film...

CARLO VAN NESTE – VIOOLVIRTUOOS

Jef Cornelis
Carlo van Neste, Belgian virtuoso and chamber musician born in 1914, is acclaimed both nationally and internationally. He teaches at the conservatories of Brussels and Utrecht, where he has prepared countless young violinists for the international stage...