This book offers a unique journey through the history of still life in Belgium in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with Ensor as guide. Still life played an important role within the oeuvre of Belgian expressionist and symbolist painter James Ensor (1860-1949). The quality and significance of his intriguing, complex still lifes become clear when placed within the broader development of the genre in Belgium between 1830 and 1930. The still life, which in the early 19th century had degenerate...

Award-Winning Marcel van Eeden critically explores Hans Thoma's travel to the Netherlands in 1898 through gum bichromate images of the places he visited. Text in English and German.

Splendid Isolation is a group exhibition that seeks to explore the particular conditions of life in solitude, and more precisely the creative impulses it can nourish. Bringing together an intergenerational and international group of artists, it centres on the artistic output that is induced by life under self-imposed or forced restrictions and foregrounds herein a number of positions. They include working conditions in which artists have been brutally cut off from their environment, have opte...

This book turns traditional art history inside out. Not styles or forms or movements or artists or art theories are its point of departure, but the reason for being of art in civilization. Since the very beginnings of society art has raised and responded to the existential questions of the human kind. The history of the arts is the history of those questions and from that angle art should be presented: here it is. When reading this book, unfolding like a novel, we think yes, of course, no dou...

Collected Stories is Vanriets dertiende individuele tentoonstelling in Galerie De Zwarte Panter de samenwerking begon reeds in 1973. Ze verzamelt vier thema's: van schilderijen geïnspireerd door klassieke beelden uit de Glypthotek in München, via een reeks intimistische huisscènes (de schaduwen van catalpa's in de tuin) vermengd met de vijandigheid van de buitenwereld (de brandstichting in een asielcentrum in Bilzen), dan de epische rouw na de Superga-vliegramp in 1949 nabij Turijn, waarbi...