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Pieter GeenenOn the walls of the local Belgian Club in Delhi, Ontario (Canada) hangs a banal painting portraying Saint Catherine's Square, a square in the heart of the Belgian capital Brussels. Depicting this specific place the painting evokes the memory connected to it for the many Belgian immigrants in this particular Canadian region, which helps defining and enhancing the community's identity...
FOOTBALLEUR
Michel FrançoisFor Michel François, beauty is to be found in everyday life, where emotion and astonishment are waiting. Begging in the Barcelonian Ramblas is a true matter of art and genius as Footballeur’s protagonist proves. This old soccer player sitting on the sidewalk keeps the ball bouncing in the air with his feet. For as long as he wants. Come rain or shine....
WANDELEN IN BINNENLAND: PORTRET VAN DE FOTOGRAAF JULIEN COULOMMIER
Jan VrommanThe Belgian photographer Julien Coulommier doesn’t deal in the exotic, the eccentric, the technical performance; he penetrates the depth of banality, he is profoundly connected with his subjects. An Inland Walk is not only a portrait of a photographer, but also a portrait of the artistic context, the spirit of the time in which the work was developed (Cobra, etc.)...
THE NEW DRESS
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeA portrait of Sister Majella Hoppenbrouwers who worked from 1956 to 1961 with the Asmat Papuans in the former Dutch New Guinea....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 62. BLACK HEART
Steve ReinkeThese computer images are a model of how different tattoos might look on me....
FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 7
Claude CattelainDoing a video each day. Day 7: another attempt to bring a wooden piece to the sea....
Les artistes, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
MONDAY: FIREWORK; TUESDAY: ILLUMINATIONS; WEDNESDAY: REVOLUTION
Angel VergaraIn the exhibition ’Monday: Firework; Tuesday: Illuminations; Wednesday: Revolution’, shown in Argos in spring 2010, Angel Vergara concentrated on history, and more specifically on the early days of the Belgian monarchy and its cultural, social-political and economic context...
RUNNING AROUND
Ria PacquéeIn this absurdist take on an 'Urban Trail' Ria Pacquée drifts through her hometown Antwerp while intermittently encircling various objects and structures she encounters. A run down kiosk, an artificial hill with a playground slide, a battered metal curb, a hexagonal flowerpot, a concrete ping pong table; all of which would easily disappear in the dense fabric of the urban environment...
nostalgia, 2009, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp
NOSTALGIA
Pieter GeenenEtymologically, the word ’nostalgia’ is derived from the Greek words ’nostos’ and ’algos’, meaning ’return’ and ’suffering’...
