A leading figure in 20th century Belgian painting, Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) will be honoured in a major exhibition at La Boverie in autumn 2024. The exhibition promises to be a landmark event, presenting masterpieces that have not been seen or brought together for many years. Taking a novel approach, the exhibition will also reveal little-known facets of this artist, considered to be the painter of women and railway stations. Visitors will be invited to discover the significant elements of Paul Delvaux's worlds through paintings, drawings and objects placed alongside each other or alongside the work of other artists. As visitors wander through the exhibition, Paul Delvaux's worlds will be revealed to enrich their perspective. They will provide an insight into the place of Delvaux's work in Surrealism and, more broadly, in the history of art. The aim is to shed new light on a timeless work, to reveal its complexity and to engage in a fresh dialogue with today's visitors.
Delvaux, a celebrated Belgian and international painter, is long overdue for a (re)discovery.
HIGHLIGHTS
+ Original works not seen or assembled for a considerable time
+ Innovative scenography revealing the artist's worlds, as well as his studio
+ Masterpieces by the Belgian artist from leading museums
+ The exceptional setting of the Musée de la Boverie
A Tempora and Paul Delvaux Foundation production in partnership with La Boverie
Contact:
info@expo-pauldelvaux.com
+32(2)549 60 49
The collection of photographs in this exhibition plunges us into the celebration of Holi, which marks the end of winter and celebrates the beginning of spring. The immersion that this work offers is punctuated by images of volcanic earth that blend in an extremely natural way with the explosions of colour that are characteristic of Holi. It's impossible to remain insensitive to the links between this religious festival and the lands immortalised by the photographer.
Brûlures is a poetic, lyrical photographic work exploring the experiences connecting Nature and human beings. This project is a true testament to human life, visible in both the movements of the Holi celebrations and the volcanic manifestations. The palpable intimacy that emanates from each of the photographs on display reminds us of the beauty of the world, by highlighting the fire that springs from the heart of the Earth and the human beings who inhabit it. By bringing us face to face with this intense show, Carine Doutrelepont reminds us that it remains essential to take care of our Earth, as well as ourselves and others, because, ultimately, human beings and Nature are one and the same.
The artist
Carine Doutrelepont sees photography as a form of writing in which the image replaces words or accompanies them in silence. A transmission of a multitude of glances as well as a confidence in the intuition to push back the frontiers of the hidden or the invisible?
For her, photography is also a way of tracing the paths through which she offers the public, free to move through worlds where the imaginary and the real weave the beautiful or tragic density of life.
Attracted by nature and the diversity of human expression, she took up photography during her many travels around the world.
It was through encounters, some of them symbolic, that she developed her creative work. "An explorer, she has found in photography a humanist way of celebrating the beauty and depth of the land and people whose presence and history she likes to recount or celebrate in her own way".
She lives in Brussels, where she writes, teaches copyright at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and practises as a lawyer.
“The meaning and task of every artistic effort is the liberation of the spiritual essence of shape and colour and their detachment from imprisonment in the world of objects. It was these efforts that led to the creation of abstract art.” These are the words with which Johannes Itten, teacher at the Bauhaus, ended his ‘Art of Colour’. Before the 20th century, no one had considered that a work of art could economise on resemblance to reality and be only composed of its constituent elements such as shape, colour or material.
But what is abstract art and does it still make sense today? Abstract answers these questions, through a sensitive journey that rediscovers this artistic world and its major influence on our lives. From Kandinsky to the most contemporary artists, the exhibition presents more than 150 works across more than 2,000 m². It reveals the importance of the collections of the Fine Arts Museum of Liège and is enhanced by major pieces from other backgrounds. In dialogue with these works, exclusive interviews with contemporary artists and players in the arts world enable the visitors to grasp the importance and extreme vivacity of abstract art.
‘Abstract’ shows us that this form of language is far from having reached its limits and that its expressions are infinite: contemporary art has not rejected abstract art, and we have not yet exploited its full potential.
With, among others, works by: Malevitch, Vasarely, Léger, De Staël, Poliakoff, Estève, Arp, Nicholson, Degottex, Jacobsen, Mortensen, Chapoval, Mathieu, Hayter, Herbin, Magnelli, Moreni, Viola, Pijuan, Csaky, Chauvin, Schneider, Tapies, Debré, Viallat, Hantai, Bonnefoy, Sol Lewitt, Venet, Schôffer as well as the Belgian artists Dotremont, Van Anderlecht, Lacasse, Closon, Marthe Wéry, and contemporary artists...
Through around a hundred works of various
types (paintings, collages and drawings), this exhibition reveals the work of Belgian artist and writer Cécile Miguel (1921-2001). Born in Gilly, Cécile Miguel received the Prix de la Jeune Peinture Française in 1950 and took part in an exhibition in Lucerne which also featured works by Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. She first wrote poems and plays with her husband André Miguel, an author, poet and critic. From 1989, she published ‘dream journals’, typeset poems and prose texts of surrealistic reminiscence. Her art is constructed ‘with juxtaposed colours and printed materials, a teeming blend of derision and humour... an ensemble with its own plastic evidence, even rigour.”
To round off the visit, an exhibition of Cécile Miguel's small-format works, Cécile Miguel, du côté de l'ombre méditante, will be open from 2 June to 13 September at the Musée du Petit Format d'Art Contemporain. Further information at https://www.museedupetitformat.be
The 'Avenir' project was created in 2019 from the sticker 'avenir partout wifi nulle part'. 5 years later, Avenir has become a multidisciplinary, variable-geometry art project that develops through screen printing, painting, installations, photography and video. Avenir's universe is built on the general hypocrisy of contemporary society and of each and every one of us. There is no particular message; the project is inspired and defined by what it opposes.
Future prospects and perspectives (literally).
Projects for the future inspired by memories of illuminated trips to Naples, Rome and Mexico City. A tribute to the artist Saverio Lucariello (1958-2023) and to my studies as an engineer and architect.
This year, our teams received 408 entries from all over the world. After a long selection process, forty-five of them were chosen to be shown at the Musée de La Boverie.
The Triennale de Gravure exhibition runs from 29 November 2024 to 16 March 2025 at La Boverie. At the opening of the exhibition, an international jury will award the Triennale prize.
The selected artists are :
Georges AMERLYNCK, Belgium
Benjamin BADOCK, Germany
Naïm BARBACH, Belgium
Godelieve BIESWAL, Belgium
Jeroen BISSCHEROUX, Netherlands †
Marie-France BONMARIAGE, Belgium
Yvonne BRONNER, Germany
David CAUWE, Belgium
Isabelle CELLIER, France
Cléa DARNAUD, France
Hanna DE HAAN, Netherlands
Luc D'HAEGELEER, Belgium
Steven DIXON, Canada
Lygia ELUF, Brazil
Maria Luisa ESTRADA SÁNCHEZ, Mexico
Marnix EVERAERT, Belgium
Bethsabée (Babé) FOURNIER, France
Dragana FRANSSEN-BOJIC, Serbia
Sigmundstad GISKE, Norway
Marie Laure GUEGUEN, France
Mariuga GUIMARÃES, Belgium
Veronika GÜNTHER, Germany
Adelina IANTCHEVA, Bulgaria
Davida KIDD, Canada
Geneviève LAPLANCHE, Switzerland
Jose Luis LARGO, Spain
Marta LECH, Poland
Eva MAES, Belgium
Antonin MALCHIODI, France
Véronique MARTINELLI, Belgium
Kristin MELLER, United Kingdom
Linda MOONEN, Belgium
Muriel MOREAU, France
Isabel MOUTTET, France
Reiner NACHTWEY, Germany
Stephanie RUSS, Canada
Augusto SAMPAIO, Brazil
Lisa SIBILLAT, France
Kateryna SVIRGUNENKO, Ukraine
Alex THOMPSON, Canada
Pierre VASIC, Belgium
Martin VELISEK, Czech Republic
Sophie VINK, Belgium
Raphaël WU, China
Leszek WYCZOLKOWSKI, Poland