Published with an eponymous exhibition in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, this catalogue provides an overview of works created there by immigrant Iraqi artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji between 2016 and 2021, together with the oeuvre he produced in Iraq in the 1980s. Central to this cartography is a reflection on Baghdad, the artist’s own family history of migration, and his experiences in Iraq during the turbulent years he spent working there. His characteristic black linework and melancholic under...

In 2019 verwierf de Vlaamse Gemeenschap ‘Great American Nude #45’ (1963) van Tom Wesselmann uit de Collectie Matthys-Colle. De aankoop werd gekoppeld aan de langdurige bruikleen van 39 andere kunstwerken uit diezelfde collectie aan het museum. Deze gebeurtenis vormt het startpunt van een unieke en belangrijke publiek-private samenwerking in België, waaruit deze tentoonstelling voortvloeit. Representatieve popartwerken uit de Collectie Matthys-Colle van onder meer Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselm...

Since the mid-nineties, Johan De Wilde (°1964, BE) has been

making pencil drawings that can be considered as the work of

a ‘human printer’, like man created computers in his mind.

The artworks are meticulous built as paintings, layer after layer

of horizontal and vertical lines, with a suggestion of shapes or

numbers interwoven. De Wilde draws the canvas he paints on

and mostly uses the same formats: A6, A4, A2, because he wants

the drawings to be as universal as possible and thes...