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LESSONS IN BEAUTY (ANTOON VAN DYCK)
Stefaan DecostereA portrait of Antoon Van Dyck, often called "the Mozart of painting". If there is an enigma about Van Dyck’s character, it is complicated by a scarcity of first hand accounts of him and the almost complete lack of letters by his hand. In the nineteenth century he was often cast, disparagingly, as Rubens’s brilliant but degenerate successor - effeminate, dissolute, irresolute...
DATA
Philippe Van SnickThree numbers are written in black on a white piece of paper. An invisible hand is writing over them, until they become unreadable....
... BECAUSE SUPERGLUE IS FOREVER!!!
Johan Grimonprez“Yesterday Salam Khamas, at the age of 93, married Mrs.Um Ahmed, at the tender age of 105, in the town of Basra, Iraq. It was sunny. The newly weds were both found dead in their honeymoon bed this morning. Mrs.Um Ahmed was still wearing her wedding dress...
THE PAINTERS
Nicolas ProvostIn 'Long Live The New Flesh' Nicolas Provost adapted a number of horror films. Now he tackles this other genre film. We see drip painters at work, blobs flying around. Form and content spatter from the screen. A film that appears to be modelled out of digital clay, on the borderline between beauty and taboo....
FLYING CHICKENS [PART]
Messieurs DelmotteWith a chicken in each hand the protagonist is launching himself off a sloping surface. The flight ends in a tumble, pulling along the two Galliformes. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
THE MIME AND THE APE
Erik BüngerIn the film Silent Movie (1976) a film director places a phone call to Marcel Marceau to ask him to star in a silent film. The world famous mime picks up the phone and shouts “No!”. Thirty-five years later the exact same stunt is repeated by Cesar, the chimpanzee protagonist in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)...
ROBERT HOUBEN, MINISTER VAN STAAT
Jef CornelisRobert J. Houben (1905-1992) was a Belgian Politician and a member of the Christian Social Party (at the time called Christelijke Volks Partij or CVP). In 1969 he was declared ‘Minister of State’ (Minister van Staat), an honorary title granted by royal decree to prominent politicians who made an outstanding effort in public life. In 1980-81, Cornelis filmed Houben in his home interior...
RÉPÉTITIONS
Marie AndréAndré's fascination with the eloquence and significance of everyday gestures, particularly those of women, finds its perfect correlative in the postmodern choreography of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker...
