Ceremonial poncho
Embroidered fabric, braided twine,
© Museu Bispo do Rosario Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro..
Photographer Rodrigo Lopes.
Arthur Bispo Do Rosário
21/10/ 2011- 15/01/2012
Within the scope of Europalia Brasil
The unique universe Arthur Bispo do Rosário (1911-1989) invites us to travel through is one of heavenly beings and the subjective reinterpretation of the environment he used to live in: from fork to boat, his entire personal history and anything, or almost anything, he was surrounded by in his daily life can be found in the approximately 800 works of art he created. Sectioned to the Colônia Juliano Moreira psychiatric hospital, in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, where he ended up spending fifty years of his life, Bispo discovered and appropriated the objects that could incorporate his formal universe and the materials he needed to translate these objects into his legacy. The vortex-like force of this collection, which will draw you into the heart of expressivity itself, does not only stem from the abundance and the originality of the compositions but also from the materials he used and the themes he broached.
Arthur Bispo do Rosário, internationally acclaimed artist, who would have been celebrating his 100th birthday this year, continues to exercise a major influence on Brazilian contemporary art.
Frédéric Dockx
Collection of the artist
What’s up?
15/06 -25/09 2011
Karel De Groef (B), Michel Delannoy (Fr), Frédéric Dockx (B), Eric Firenz (B), Franklin, Michel Goyon (B), Jeroen Hollander (B), Thierry Lambert (Fr), Wolfgang Marx (Allemagne), Bernard Van den Bossche (B), Jacqueline Vizcaïno (Fr), Dominique Vrancken (B), Gaëtan Wtoreck (B).
For many years now, our research has proved successful in environments as diverse and varied as creative workshops within institutions for the mentally disabled, day centres, psychiatric care units, as well as with artists who are predominantly self-taught. And the source doesn’t dry up. This exhibition offers a wide overview of our recent discoveries, and goes beyond the categorizations of in- and outsiders. About ten artists from various backgrounds will unveil their peculiar imaginary worlds, all of which are of great diversity and expressive power: paintings, models, textile creations, notebooks, drawings, installations, sculptures…
Philippe da Fonseca,
Coll. CEC La Hesse
EXTRA-MUROS
Esprit Mine
Lewarde Historical Mining Site (Fr)
1/07/2011 – 31/12/2012
Bernd et Hilla Becher, Cléa Coudsi et Eric Herbin,
Philippe da Fonseca, Félicien « Emile » Delvigne, Gaston Duf, André Fournelle, Bruno Gérard, Fernand Joris, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Augustin Lesage, Stefan Nowak, Baudouin Oosterlynck, Jacques Trovic, Jean-Michel Wuilbeaux.
During the twentieth century, many artists placed both mining culture in general and coal as a material in particular at the heart of their creation, while miners themselves became artists.
The exhibition presented at the exceptional site of the Lewarde Mining Centre offers various artistic approaches to the mine: the miner as draughtsman or painter (the theme of the mine) of matter and memory. Self-taught artists and professional artists, outsiders and insiders are meeting around this rich theme, and some will create work in-situ. Their works explore the theme of the mine in the broad sense of the word, i.e. the way it was lived and felt as well as its importance as individual and societal temporal memory.
Laszlo Istok
Sans titre, 1923-1925
crayon sur papier
Coll. Camillo Reuter, Pécs (Hongrie)
Mad about Hungary
works from the Reuter collection from Pécs
08/04 -05/06 2011
For the first time, works from the Pécs Psychiatric Hospital collection (Hungary) are being shown outside Hungary. Following the example of psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn, author of the book “Expressions of madness” published in 1922, the hospital’s first administrator Professor Camillo Reuter gathered between 1918 and 1945 over 2000 drawings by schizophrenic and manic-depressive patients. The exhibition’s selection is based on various themes: the body, the portrait, writing, inventions, imaginary worlds and Hungarian roots. It offers a striking overview of asylum artwork in that country, spanning nearly a century.
This exhibition, already shown on the occasion of the Pécs
European Capital of Culture 2010, has been organized at the initiative of the COCOF and the WBI. It is part of the bilateral agreement between the French Community and Hungary, in the context of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and in partnership with the “Hungarian Culture Brussels”.
In the “Coup de Coeur room”: “Arts in Difference”, a project in partnership with vzw Wit.h and Het Gors that took place from 2008 to 2010 in Belgium, the Netherlands and Hungary successively.
With videos from Messieurs Delmotte.
Sieberen De Vries
Coll. De Blauwe Roek, NL
Face to face
14/01 -27/03 2011
Dirk Bogaert (B), Paul Duhem (B), Yves Jules (B),
Nour Ben Slimane (B),Curzio di Giovanni(Italië), Sieberen De Vries (NL), Pascale Vincke (B) en J.Louis Again (B)
Videos, paintings and drawings reveal portraits that are funny, out of line, poignant… Some works reflect a fascination for the figure portrayed, others are more generic and question the limit between portrait and self-portrait, from the anonymous face to the description of a specific individuality.
An exhibition offering us an intense face to face with mirror works.
The works in the “Coup de Cœur” room are replaced at each temporary exhibition and are in tune with its theme. During the “Face to face” exhibition you will discover the surprising “portraits of a boaster” by J.LOUIS Again.
