PR: Peter Buggenhout (born in Dendermonde in 1963
lives in Ghent) is considered one of Belgium’s most unique and radical sculptors
The galleries Axel Vervoordt in Wijnegem and Konrad Fischer in Düsseldorf jointly present the two-part exhibition “ … use menace
showing his latest sculptural work including the new series Mute Witness
Peter Buggenhout’s highly artificial creations are irresistibly fascinating for the beholder
The mere size and variety of the surfaces and materials is impressive and makes viewing the works demanding
But they awaken not just a pleasant sense of curiosity
Although the objects are elaborately produced artifacts
there are saturated with illusionary moments of transience and decay that in their seriousness refer to representations of vanitas in terms of art history
the physically palpable experience is like an experience of nature
The exhibition title “… use menace
use prayer …” quotes a passage that the French writer Jean Genet placed in the mouth of a person condemned to death in his poem “Le Condamné à mort” from 1942
Buggenhout thus returns to the ambivalence of a sense of threat and the sublime
aesthetic categories that emerged during romantic period while experiencing landscapes
The age of overpowering nature has given way to a new era
today it can no longer be naively seen as an aesthetic place of retreat
Buggenhout’s assemblages and installations become suddenly legible as dark moments of a constantly changing repetition
that as in nature could also take place in human culture and civilization
Both exhibitions present several series of works
Buggenhout works systematically and over the long term on several consistent series that are best identified by the materials used
They are impossible to describe exhaustively in formal terms due to their amorphous complexity
Different ways of reading the world illustrate the tense relationship between the visible and the utterable
and ultimately between the artwork and the word
The Blind Leading the Blind collects materials pieces where dense layers of dust are applied and fixed on
A fur-like brown in shaded nuances shapes all surfaces of the amorphous monochromatic creations in this series
lie on the floor and grow into expansive sculptural tableaus
but they can also be staged in glass cases and on steel tables like exotic museum exhibits
The Blind Leading the Blind refers to a mannerist painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Only on closer examination does the meaning and logic of a continuous process become visible
The aesthetic experience that complexity demands intense observation is a prerequisite for this series in particular
The sculptures in the series Gorgo consist of fabric
The inclusion of material of animal origin refers to the existential tension of being between fragility and constant change
TheGorgo (Gorgon) is a horror-figure from the myth of Medusa
Her snake covered head in ancient art was supposed to protect by making an unbearable reality visible in reflection
This series in particular can be linked to the term “abject,” what the body has excreted
and suppressed that in our reality appears horrific
but in profound psychological terms still has an impact and an influence
Buggenhout also found a programmatic titles
referring to the very first description of a mountain climb
he cast his glance across the nature that had been overcome
Augustine and began reading about the sins of visual desire
The epochal link of aesthetic and contemplative views
triggered by this new experience of the world
Buggenhout amplifies the sensory impressions using various materials
metals and wood form open and block-like complexes that offer new views from every perspective
Since these groups in particular demand to be viewed while moving
Buggenhout created for the mid-sized format Mont Ventoux pieces plinths
they appeal to the beholder to explore the variety of the world in miniature by walking around the work in the alternation of silhouettes and individual shapes
the artist presents the series Mute Witness: wall objects that approach three-dimensional images in a refined way
since only the textile outside can be recognized
and that have something surprisingly narrative about them
Whether something happened beneath the draped cover might well trigger the imagination of the beholder even more than other sculptural events created by Buggenhout
Buggenhout developed his sculptural work from post-minimalism
overcoming an essentialist understanding of art
Minimal art sought to reach a final point by using industrial forms of production
and surfaces that present themselves as hermetically sealed and adapt spatially to architecture
minimalism was shaped by a great deal of theatricality and consciousness of form; despite all the contrasts
this links Buggenhout’s work to this important historical position
But minimal art differs in its hermetic self-referentiality
accompanied by loquacious theoretical pronouncements
For Buggenhout creates an oeuvre that is highly suggestive in which a nameless world of destructive and yet creative potential emerges
“The world becomes brutally present when deprived of the comforting words that grant us the illusion of understanding that which surrounds us
My work is brutally present and I give no credence to words
Peter Buggenhout’s solo show „… use menace
use prayer … (part I)“ will be displayed until January 10
2020 at Konrad Fischer Galerie in Dusseldorf
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Belgium concludes its six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union
Among the priorities of the Belgian presidency were promotion of the rule of law and democracy
while enlargement was high on the agenda of EU leaders
EU adopted the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans
achieved concrete results on their path to the EU
About the enlargement on the Western Balkans
importance of the rule of law in the accession process
and the further enlargement process of Serbia and Montenegro
Ambassador of Belgium to Serbia and Montenegro
European Western Balkans: How do you assess the results of the European elections
I think that the elections have proven two things
The first thing is that there is no change in our fundamental values
The European Union will continue to work on the same basis as it was founded
The European Union is a community of values and all member states stand for stability
Some of the voters are disappointed with some of the things that happen in their own lives
This is how I interpret the results of the Belgian voters
because at the same day of the European elections
we also had federal elections and regional elections
people in Belgium worry about purchasing power
So that means that we need more European Union now
That would be my first conclusion that I draw from these elections
The second conclusion that I draw from these elections is that a lot of center parties
those which policies cannot be qualified as extreme right or left
which is basically meaning that a lot of people believe in their governments and are happy with what these governments are doing
But now we should pay attention to the people that voted for the extreme right
in my own country the extreme right-wing party in Flanders had good election results
It is important to hear the voice of the people
and to see how we can deal with their concerns
do you think that the enlargement momentum will continue with the new EU administration
During the past two years and during the Belgian Presidency
CB: The enlargement of the European Union is politically agreed and there will be no one who will stop the enlargement process
since the Russian aggression in Ukraine started
we have realized that all these candidate countries that expressed a clear will to belong to the European Union still want to belong the EU
The Russian aggression in Ukraine was a huge geopolitical shock and it came after a very difficult time for all of us because of COVID
it was a sequence of shocks to which we do have an answer : we enlarge and continue with what we started
we cannot just enlarge without strings attached
When we started the enlargement process with ten countries after the Berlin wall fell
those countries worked hard to be fit for EU membership for over ten years in a row
but we have been negotiating now for 12 years and you do not want us’
Our commitment is that this next enlargement will take place and every European Council for the past two years has repeated it
great importance to fundamental values; we have to share the same values
We cannot lower our standards just to take up countries if these countries do not respect the same values and standards
there is no coming back on any of the commitments we have undertaken to have the Western Balkan countries join the European Union
especially from some political leaders in the Western Balkans
we have heard the narrative that Ukraine will become a member of the EU before the Western Balkans
and that enlargement is not about criteria but geopolitics
Can the EU guarantee that the rule of law and respecting of fundamentals values will remain the main criteria for joining the EU
and rule of law and fundamental values will remain the criteria for Ukraine as well
Ukraine will have to fulfill all the steps that are necessary to join
just like Moldova or any country from the Western Balkans
There will be no different treatment for any country which would like to join the EU
the EU adopted the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans
What does this plan offer to the countries of the region
CB: The Belgian Presidency was under a lot of pressure to get this plan approved
We only had a couple of months until the European Parliament went into recess
The Growth Plan demonstrates our commitment to make the Western Balkan countries move forward on the EU path
The GDP pro capita in the Western Balkan countries is on average 50 percent lower than in European Union countries
Now we have a tool in our hands that will raise the economic growth in the Western Balkan countries
It will also allow the WB6 countries to integrate easier in one of the fundamental features of the European Union – the Internal market
And the growth plan should also improve the quality of the national administrations
But money for the Western Balkans is not going to be given for free
and it is four billion euro in loans at a favorable interest rate
we are eager to receive the Reform Agendas and the concrete proposals
Another important point is the regional integration
The tools are there – the Berlin Process and CEFTA
If this regional integration is up and running
then it acts as a kind of learning school to start benefiting from some elements of the Internal market
I’m convinced that if the Western Balkan countries continue to work together
like they are doing since the end of last year with productive meetings
there will be a better regional integration
which will be beneficial to make another step forward towards the European Union membership
EWB: You stated that there will be no money for free
Is there a possibility that some countries
due to numerous problems in the area of the rule of law
might not be able to draw the allocated funds offered by the Growth Plan
CB: We expect from all the candidate countries to move towards our values and to fullfill the benchmarks
Every country needs to do what is expected to become an EU member
why did you become a candidate in the first place
Candidate status implies that every candidate will do its utmost to achieve the benchmarks to join the European Union
You cannot just get the money and not do anything
That is a valid principle that applies to all the candidate countries
The reform agendas have not been presented yet
But I can say that we expect the reform agendas to be precise in what the candidate country aims to reform
Then the budget will be allocated for the elements that are in the reform plan
for the first time European Commission will publish rule of law reports for Albania
Serbia and Montenegro as for EU member states
Do you expect that these reports to more clearly highlight issues these countries face in key negotiation areas
CB: Let me start by commending the four countries which have voluntarily accepted to make a rule of law report
We are very much looking forward to receiving this self-assessment
It is useful for the countries themselves because it’s a kind of checklist of what the country has done
rule of law in the negotiation process is one track
and the voluntary report is a complementary track
The voluntary track is to make an internal exercise of the candidate country
EU member states are also subject to the checking of the state of the rule of law in the country
Because the rule of law is fundamental in the functioning of the European Union
It is an obligation that a Member State undertakes forever
EWB: In December you stated in an interview that there is a chance that Serbia could open a new negotiation cluster during the Belgian Presidency
CB: In the European Commission progress report on Serbia
it is written that there are no open benchmarks left in Cluster 3
The Commission recommended opening Cluster 3
We are aware of the wish of the Serbian government to open Cluster 3
it was for example stated recently at a meeting in Brussels with my Ministry of Foreign Affairs
But you know that there were elections in Serbia on the 17th of December and the Serbian government became a government in current affairs
The new government was put in place on the 2nd of May
That means that basically no legislative work was done during the first four months of 2024
during which Belgium holds the Presidency of the Council of the EU
there’s still no consensus in the Council
We would assume that it will be fast forward now with a new government
which has committed itself to making progress on its EU accession track
We expect that anytime soon there will be this new vigor to make sure that Cluster 3 can be opened
we have not seen any change compared to November last year
EWB: How do you assess Montenegro’s progress over the past six months
Do you expect that the country can start soon with closing negotiation chapters
CB: Montenegrin authorities say that Belgian EU Presidencies are their lucky charm
because during our previous presidency in 2010 Montenegro received candidate status
In January 2024 we held an Intergovernmental Conference
The aim of the government in Podgorica now is to have another Intergovernmental Conference under Belgian Presidency on the 24th of June
The political will of this new Montenegrin government
to become a Member of the EU is incredible
I must honestly say that each time that I travel to Podgorica and I speak to the authorities
And over 80 percent of the people of Montenegro support EU membership
because becoming a member of the European Union is not easy
I see a lot of vigor and goodwill and everybody’s working a lot on getting the next step – closure of the Interim Benchmarks for Chapter 23 and 24
We are waiting for the European Commission’s assessment
expected for the middle of the month of June
then there will be the IGC on the 24th of June
Montenegro has a number of other assets in the enlargement process that they committed to
Montenegro has 100% alignment with the Common Foreign and Security Policy
They are sincere in their political will to become the next European Union member state
Journalist at the European Western Balkans
Researcher at the Centre for Contemporary Politics
It's rare that a country's geographic midpoint is in an easy-to-reach place
and the geographic midpoint of Flanders is no exception
What sets this one apart from many of its counterparts
is the fact that it was derived as a homework assignment.
The midpoint was derived in February 1999 by a group of students under the guidance of Professor Theo Van Der Waeteren at KU Leuven
While now this may be a relatively easy thing to do
back in those days this included over 120 hours of work including travel to the provincial borders with a GPS to mark the coordinates of the extreme points
the location was determined to be 51° 2' 16" N
the edge of the province of Oost-Vlaanderen
right next to a provincial triple point.
built by local sculptor Roger Van Den Eedea This marker was then erected close to an existing road several meters from the actual midpoint
as the farmer who owned the land did not want to have the statue in the middle of his field
the names of the students seem to have been lost to time
as the sign next to the marker reads: "Geographic midpoint of Flanders Calculated in 1999 by Prof
Leuven together with 4 civil engineering students and their supervisor."
When visiting by bus you will have to walk for around 30 minutes
A pair of 19th-century granite markers symbolically record where the state boundaries of New York
A quirky monument to the 49th parallel in downtown Prešov
This metal monument marking the middle of Belgium represents three regions coming together to form one country
This unassuming stone bollard is a centuries-old marker denoting the center of the city
An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed
one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe
A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent
This spot along the 23.5 degree north parallel marks the northern boundary of the tropics
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Peter Buggenhout: Interview of the Month
Belgian sculptor Peter Buggenhout makes slippery
near-formless sculptures that typically repulse with their abject materials
yet draw you in to an uncanny unknowability
they operate rather like abstract paintings – and Buggenhout trained as a painter – and they actually carry very definite meanings
but they do have a rather consistent subject
and by how this world around us is completely incomprehensible
is a world we cannot grasp with our limited minds
PB: When I was 17 I had ten hours of maths lessons a week
the ultimate counterpoint to what I’m doing now
But I realised I didn’t want to continue studying maths
It was like putting grids on top of the world and trying to make the world fit the grid
People said ‘You’re good at maths and languages
You have two children so you change the house to provide bedrooms for them
and each time that leads to changes so that eventually it becomes difficult to see where you started from
I see that sort of complexity in the state of the world
and that way of thinking is also my working practice
but I actually find something yellow… So yes
When you walk around a sculpture you have different gestalt moments: that’s the way the brain works
I consider a work finished when you can’t put those moments together coherently
when you have no clue any more: I aim to exclude the possibility of recognising one thing as dominant
PCK: Is there a pessimism in this view that the world is too complex for us
PB: Over the years I’ve became rather accepting of the situation
we are not respectful of the world – every different type of chair
deserves a proper name – but that would make it impossible to communicate
It would show the complexity of things yet be self-defeating
So I came to accept things the way they are – a definition of hope
It’s not that we’ll get to the happier world that the western approach to science promised
but that as every day proves it’s not the solution
you should accept the complexity just the way it is – then a lot of stress falls away
of works covered in dust as if happened upon after decades of abandonment
is probably the series best known to British audiences…
PB: I still make the dust pieces – everything is continuous
circling round the same ideas but from different angles – but I realised it didn’t make much sense to talk about the complexity of the world when you have only one way to come at it
And if I wanted to grasp the complexity fully
I had to use other colours and other materials – not just hide it under dust
PCK: Three other series appear in the show
The ‘Mont Ventoux’ works all use a cow’s intestine as a starting point
PB: The title doesn’t say anything about what you see
Every series has its state of mind leading to the title
‘Mont Ventoux’ refers to Petrarch sitting on top of the mountain in France
by saying we can master this world by dividing it
But he forgot he was standing at a distance
but it’s an illusion to think you can master things
I like to use abject materials – that have been removed from their original context
that have lost their use and shape and meaning
Some materials are abject in their essential being – intestines
dust… Other materials can become more abject as they become less recognisable or traceable
PCK: The biggest work in the show is from the ‘On Hold’ series
This one is mainly made with part of a bouncy castle – the idea was to squeeze it between different shapes
and filled it with polyurethane so it did the same thing as air in a bouncy castle
And it’s important that it’s somewhat unstable: it’s a frozen moment
PB: That series is mainly about human culture rather than the whole world
The marble refers to the Tablets of Moses and the Ten Commandments – the ultimate simplification of society: ten rules
just as in the Talmud there are comments on the commandments
we cannot read the history in the stone any more
we cannot read the thing as a whole – that’s my comment on the ultimate simplification of society
is also a sculptor – and with a comparable sensibility
as Belinde always remains more symbolic and narrative
But you might say we are really making art for each other
trying to convince each other of our values
Peter Buggenhout: ‘On Hold’ continues to 23 July at Holtermann Fine Art
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Among the most important European sculptors of his generation but still not adequately known in our country
1963) arrives in Bologna with The Blind Leading the Blind
his first Italian solo show promoted by Banca di Bologna and curated by Simone Menegoi
for twenty years the Belgian artist has found his own expressive shape in elaborate assemblies in which different materials (industrial waste
curdled blood and horsehair) make up seemingly Babylonian structures actually derived from an accurate calibration of each detail
which are particularly suggestive when they are made in environmental scale
are ambiguous organisms between the wreck and the dockyard covered with a thick layer of dust that suggest their discovery after decades of neglect.The exhibition brings together two works from the series “The parable of the blind”
inspired by the Gospel admonition against the fallacy of human beliefs in the lapidary interpretation by Pieter Brueghel the Elder
who painted it as a dismal procession of blind people destined to end up in the ditch because conducted by a blind guide
If the famous Flemish painter stigmatized human vices and weaknesses in teeming paintings by an entomological and unreasonable life that seemed regain its lost raison d’être in belonging to those crowded collective choreography
even the work of Buggenhout wants to reflect the complexity of existence and its elusive internal logic
in front of which man cannot be anything but an insignificant and partial witness
despite his works arouse the temptation to recognize apocalyptic animals or macabre vessels adrift
the artist refuses and denies any symbolic and representative outcome for establishing an analogical relationship with reality considered in its entirety
as an inextricable tangle of possibilities and implications
Sculpture for him is a self-referential object that takes only after itself
it is the result of a process that favors the flow of life without regimenting it
it is the majestic temporariness of shape given to eternity in its visible appearance
To these reasons it also can be attributed the choice not to emphasize the authorship of his creative act and to entrust the development of each structure to the unpredictable consequences of the situation initially prepared by him as if the compositional instinct that guides him in making the structure proliferate was a spontaneous work emanation of the artwork
he compensates the programmatic impersonality of his approach with an intensive organic fascination conveyed
from the dust: in the tiny particles that come from the ground and settle on the surface of the world
which contain the genetic traces of the transitional passage on Earth of anonymous and unrepeatable individualities
confusing and despite everything aesthetically refined
sculptures by Buggenhout dismantle the hierarchies of value and meaningful criteria by which we orient ourselves in everyday life to restore the wonder and bewilderment that originally caught man at the dawn of his consciousness
Overwhelmed by the magnificence of the set as Caspar David Friedrich in front of the ice sea
we cannot see any defined horizon beyond the installation and the look is irresistibly imprisoned in a maze of ravines
surfaces and deposits that excite our most voyeuristic empathy
these enigmatic sculptural complexes seem to acquire full clarity only when they are experienced with an introspective and meditative attitude
the only way that allows us to recognize in their rough and irregular forms the indefinable mixture of planning and chaos
growth and consumption that connects individual existence to the cosmic breath
In a recent interview Buggenhout said that the destruction leads eventually to the construction
in the same way in which the dead leaves nourish the trees
suggesting how his works are not melancholic vanitas or catastrophic forecasts of the future as would suggest their apparent abandonment
but faithful material transpositions of world generative processes
the sculptures identify devious paths where the start is buried in oblivion and the end cannot be guessed
while the silent mental landscapes that wind along the path alternate desolate shores of loneliness and moments of enchanted beauty
Graduated in art history at DAMS in Bologna
she specialized in Siena with Enrico Crispolti
Curious and attentive to the becoming of the contemporary
she believes in the power of art to make life more interesting and she loves to explore its latest trends through dialogue with artists
She considers writing a form of reasoning and analysis that reconstructs the connection between the artist’s creative path and the surrounding context
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Banca di Bologna is pleased to present The Blind Leading The Blind
the first solo show in Italy by Belgian artist Peter Buggenhout (b
one of the foremost European sculptors of his generation
which will be on view in the Banca di Bologna Hall of Palazzo De’ Toschi (Piazza Minghetti 4/D
and will open to the public on January 27 at 6 PM
It is scheduled in conjunction with the 5th Art City Bologna
an initiative sponsored by the City of Bologna and by Bologna Fiere and aimed at creating a program of high-profile cultural events in exhibition spaces around the city during the weekend of Arte Fiera
The event will also renew the partnership between Banca di Bologna and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna which began in January 2016 with the group show La Camera: Sulla materialità della fotografia
students from the art academy will greet visitors and be on hand to provide information about the works by Peter Buggenhout
both from the series The Blind Leading The Blind
The first (The Blind Leading The Blind #65
2014) is a spectacularly striking assemblage—some 10 meters long and 6 meters high—incorporating materials such as iron pipes
and bits of mortar: a piece of architecture ambiguously suspended between construction and destruction
The second (The Blind Leading The Blind #25
2007) is an enigmatic object with a craggy
presented in a showcase as if it were an archeological find
Both works are being shown for the first time in Italy
Peter Buggenhout has been presenting viewers with a challenging paradox: his pieces are elaborate artistic creations which at first glance seem like the product of chance and time
The sculptures from his series The Blind Leading The Blind look like wreckage
rubble: works springing from a rational design
but shattered and mutilated by some unknown event
we feel like we are looking at organisms whose haphazard proliferation has been suddenly cut short
All the works in the series are partially or wholly covered in a layer of dust
as if they were happened upon after decades of abandonment: critics have called them “archeological finds of the future.”
This use of dust as a sculptural material is one of the most fascinating aspects of Buggenhout’s oeuvre
it suggests that the Belgian artist’s works could be seen as melancholy vanitas
still lifes meant to remind the viewer that everything is transient
against interpreting his work in a purely negative sense
as a sort of monument to entropy: “The opposite may be true
Destruction leads ultimately to reconstruction
in the same way that dead leaves nurture trees
We are confronted with a constant back and forth
Buggenhout belongs to a long line of artists—not only in the visual realm; for instance
the sculptor lists the work of author Georges Perec among his influences—who have tried to depict the world in all its inexhaustible
putting aside the hierarchies of value and yardsticks of meaning that guide us in everyday life
Completely “abstract,” (in the artist’s description)
his sculptures nevertheless stand as an analogy of reality itself
which includes almost everything imaginable
The aesthetic and intellectual principle underlying the Belgian artist’s work is that any attempt to impose a rational order on reality will always be partial
It is no coincidence that Buggenhout has titled his main series of works The Blind Leading The Blind
This is a reference to one of the sculptor’s favorite paintings
the homonymous work by Pieter Brueghel the Elder at the Museo di Capodimonte
but also to the passage from the Gospel of Matthew that this painting illustrates
a proverbial reference to the fallacy of human knowledge: “They be blind leaders of the blind
The exhibition will be documented in a forthcoming monograph on the most recent exhibitions of Peter Buggenhout
soon to be published by Banca di Bologna in collaboration with its institutional partners
Exhibition partner Banca di Bologna is a bank with close local ties to both the city and the surrounding area
Its many initiatives have included refurbishing Piazza Galvani
restoring the Oratorio dei Fiorentini and Bologna’s city gates
It has also been involved in the restoration of the Basilica of San Petronio and its Chapel of the Archangel Michael
a historic building in the center of Bologna designed by Antonio Sarti and built at the beginning of the twentieth century
and especially its use of reinforced concrete
who saw it during a trip to Italy in 1907 and described it in his letters
The Palazzo was acquired by Banca di Bologna in 2007 and reopened to the public in 2013
the building and its main hall have been used to house important cultural and educational initiatives and exhibitions
Notable examples include a series of lectures by eminent critics and scholars on the theme of art and food through the centuries
organized by Banca di Bologna for Expo 2015
Banca di Bologna’s cultural program for Palazzo De’ Toschi continued with the photography show L’industria bolognese
organized in collaboration with Collezioni Alinari and presenting many pictures on view for the first time
and the exhibition LA CAMERA: Sulla materialità della fotografia
an exhibition exploring the relationship between photography and sculpture
curated by Simone Menegoi in conjunction with Arte Fiera 2016
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becomes the meeting ground for two monumental exhibitions
The absence of context in a biennial whose stated aims quickly become lost in translation leaves far too many questions unanswered
Nicolas Bourriaud’s theme of ‘pansori’ suggests an opera you can walk through – but this only begins to take form at the Gwangju Biennale
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France – The nominees and winners of the Licensing International France Awards were revealed today in a preview before the licensing community gathered for the France Licensing Day & Licensing International Awards
the co-presidents of Licensing International France presented the 45 nominees
The YPN committee (Young Professionals Network) rewarded Marie Van Buggenhout (Peyo Company) as the winner of the Rising Star category in France
144 entries were submitted across 16 categories
Beauty Products; Cultural Products from Publishing
or Digital; and a new category highlighting the association’s societal commitment to CSR initiatives
The jury consisted of 12 professionals representing all areas of the licensing industry
Here are the nominees and winners of the 16 categories awarded for the year 2023:
The winner is Oreo x Pac-Man / Bandai Namco Europe
The winner is Bien Grandir avec les Monsieur Madame / Sanrio
The winner is Gabby’s Magical House Playset by Spin Master / Universal Products & Experiences
The winner is Junji Ito Collection at Bershka / Crunchyroll
The winner is PAW Patrol Movie Release Activations / Paramount Consumer Products & Experiences
The winner is Molang Safe Place / Millimages
The Rising Star of the French licensing industry is Marie Van Buggenhout
The winner is 24h Le Mans / Automobile Club de l’Ouest
The winner is L’Elysée – Présidence de la République / Arboresens
2 “Special Prizes” were awarded by the Licensing International jury to:
The winner is Universal Products & Experiences
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Innovative Fire Systems (IFS) has decided to actively promote the contemporary art world
defending values that it shares with the Palais de Tokyo: a passion for innovation
a monumental sculpture by Peter Buggenhout
was specially created for the reopening of the Palais de Tokyo on 12 April 2012
IFS’ contribution also consists in providing highly specific materials (such as fire protection boards
etc.) to protect The Blind Leading the Blind from the ravages of time
enabling Peter Buggenhout to give free rein to his talent
The artist works in the opposite direction to an archaeologist
playing on the new life breathed into common materials or industrial waste
The Blind Leading the Blind overhangs the main staircase at the Palais du Tokyo
Making buildings safe is our primary concern
Human vulnerability and foreseeing improbable situations lie at the heart of the research and innovative fire protection systems developed by IFS to protect property
Under the partnership between IFS and the Palais de Tokyo
IFS gave the artist Florence Nief carte blanche
inviting her to give concrete expression to foresight in REGARDS exhibition
held in one of the private spaces of Palais de Tokyo
and which visitors of the museum were invited to explore
our “doubles” in the form of transformed Barbie dolls and mannequins move through a disjointed world of IFS’ salvaged materials (such as intumescent paint,fire protection foam) and reassigned objects
IFS is making the improbable tangible with the professional input of Peter Buggenhout and Florence Nief who are looking at vulnerability and foresight respectively
Contemporary art is at the heart of our dynamic
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etc.) to protect The Blind Leading the Blind from the ravages of time
The Blind Leading the Blind overhangs the main staircase at the Palais du Tokyo
IFS gave the artist Florence Nief carte blanche
Below are the standout artists who should be on every collector’s list
A Toronto-born artist living between and working Oslo and Los Angeles, Jason Boyd Kinsela makes geometric paintings and sculptures of people based on their traits from the Myers-Briggs personality test
The subject of an arresting solo show at Perrotin in Seoul
he exhibited two paintings and a sculpture at the fair
His painting Justine captures the sitter’s psychological makeup through a variety of colorful
the remarkable result is an abstract portrait of a person realistically rendered
A multidisciplinary Australian artist working in diverse media with an assortment of materials, Nell creates playful
Widely exhibited across Australia over the past 30 years
the Sydney-based artist is celebrated for using symbolic motifs
Nell exhibited hand-blown glass ghost heads depicted with wide-open eyes and mouths on vibrant
Tiny versions were hung on forged stainless-steel branches
while her more prominent glass ghosts sat hauntingly still atop plinths
A Seattle-born, Brooklyn-based artist, Amanda Baldwin began her pursuit as a painter by making semi-abstract still lives before adding larger-scaled landscapes to her oeuvre
Constructing long-distance views through forests and mountainous ranges to far-off horizons
where trees and hills have been reduced to colorful
Her painting Bending the Bay at Jason Haam’s booth at the fair depicts an open vista between tall trees of a river winding through mountains toward a gorgeous
By abstracting and layering the realistic forms and adding shading to create the illusion of depth
Baldwin provides a mystical vision of nature that lovingly leaves the viewer at peace
Blurring the boundary between science and art, Harrison Pierce is part painter
Inspired by brain scans that revealed an anomaly in the morphology of his brain
turned the asymptomatic analysis into fodder for artwork
the London-born and based artist spectacularly visualizes the brain’s workings with his surreal canvases and Dadaist machines
Pearce has a room full of modular kinetic sculptures made from inflated rubber forms and machine parts that rhythmically simulate the activity of the brain
with a sonic composition controlling a pneumatic system that causes the bodily organ to seem alive
It’s a hypnotic installation where sound and vision are in magical sync
A Belgian artist with a large following in Europe, Peter Buggenhout has been widely exhibited since graduating from Sint-Lucas in Ghent with a degree in monumental arts
gritty sculptures that look like found industrial debris and paintings that resemble sections of abused
Buggenhout simulates a sense of chaos by carefully constructing his pieces in the studio to seem like archeological finds
Buggenhout’s works help set the stage for what’s to come with a series of disorderly paintings and sculptures in one of the initial rooms
His massive sculpture The Blind Leading the Blind #91 is a monument to an out-of-control consumer culture
where objects are quickly replaced and recycling is someone else’s concern
Marguerite Humeau takes us back to prehistorical times and into the distant future by creating otherworldly objects
she puts her concentrated research into the mysteries of the world to concrete use by realizing her vision as art
she studied art in Paris and design in Eindhoven and London
where she was introduced to the process of using technological developments to visualize her ideas
presents a galaxy of hand-blown glass bubbles with light and pansori music surrounding a ghostly
draped figure holding a vessel with mud from an ancient Korean pond with 33-million-year-old bacteria
linking her marvelous installation to the primordial past
A self-taught photographer, Thandiwe Muriu has risen to the top of her profession in an amazingly short time
she added her imagination and cultural background to the mix
and print designs of the vibrant African lifestyle she experiences in the city and during her travels
Photographing super-stylized Blacks in highly patterned scenarios while they are wearing related designs and accessories
the talented artist blurs the line between abstraction and figuration
Her Vitruvian Woman picture at 193 Gallery’s Kiaf booth captures a chic young woman confidently posed in a psychedelic setting
With hair piled high and outlandish eyewear
she’s ready to meet the future with style and grace
Building up layers of colored paper and photographs on panels and boards, Azuki Furuya then sands the surfaces of her compositions to get a surreal
modeled image that’s part figurative and part abstract
she appropriates subjects from Western art history but turns them into something lively and new with her spirited and transformative process
The Tokyo-based artist’s painting at Whitestone’s booth at Kiaf
Taking the Renaissance subject painted by Raphael
Furuya brilliantly portrays the three seductive figures surrounded by various versions of themselves in a hauntingly derelict realm
A painter of stylish young women in upscale settings and romantic scenes, Karen Lyons studied journalism and worked in the fashion industry before turning to painting
which she beautifully applies with lively brushwork to canvas
a standout at Carl Kostyál’s Kiaf group show booth
delicately depicts a young woman consoling herself with a cigarette in a room full of classical furnishings and paintings
Standing alone while gazing directly at the viewer
she conveys vulnerability and strength in an assuredly painted picture
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This year’s must-see shows range from a Nordic Pavilion exploring transgender spaces to a compelling Lebanese project confronting the realities of ecocide
Frieze returns to The Shed in May with more than 65 of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries and the acclaimed Focus section led by Lumi Tan
Nicolas Bourriaud’s theme of ‘pansori’ suggests an opera you can walk through – but this only begins to take form at the Gwangju Biennale
My first impression of the 15th Gwangju Biennale
‘PANSORI: A Soundscape of the 21st Century’
came in the form of a pansori performance on the eve of the exhibition opening: in a small neighbourhood bar
French artist Saâdane Afif had gathered an intimate crowd to enjoy the presence of Sora Kim
one of South Korea’s foremost pansori divas
She graciously entertained the audience with a 30-minute English-language performance
reciting not Korean folk tales but poetry by international artists while the crowd
For biennales that cite local aesthetic traditions as inspiration
it is always risky to include the ‘real thing’
this biennale quickly frays at its conceptual edges
ranging from the urban to the microbial and even the cosmic
The scope is too vast: those looking forward to a curatorial exemplar of the ‘sonic’ or ‘percussive’ turn in contemporary art are left hungry for more
for the biennale engages the auditory only as a vague
This shortcoming is most evident in the exhibition’s first section
which the wall text tells us is a phenomenon generated ‘by the lack of space between two emitters: a sonic consequence of saturation’
but one that quickly grows quiet – literally – after the exhibition’s first work
Emeka Ogboh’s blacked-out tunnel of urban clatter (Oju 2.0
The show proceeds to transport us through myriad ‘sites’ that
feel neither crowded nor cacophonous: Cinthia Marcelle’s corporate dystopias are eerily quiet (Não existe mais lugar neste lugar
while Peter Buggenhout’s mega-sized sculptural composites are cast as urban rubble but without its denizens (King Louie
Fractal light glows from Na Mira’s meandering video projection of the US Army Garrison in Yongsan
where colonial ghosts linger (수궁가/Sugungga (Hello)
Dora Budor takes us on a fever-ridden tour of a privately developed park on the West Side of Manhattan (Passive Recreation
and Anastasia Sosunova folds the history of 1990s Lithuanian neocapitalism into a road trip (DIY
If these are indeed topological works – at minimum
about ‘spaces’ of some kind – their didactic presentation quickly makes viewers’ eyes glaze over
but they are often siloed into separate rooms or off-site locations
a walk through ‘PANSORI’ yields a conspicuous flow of the world’s (and
matter and people rendered in an unjustified range of styles
The openness of such a showcase makes for generic totality – the cosmos in general – which unmoors the exhibition from the world it is trying to interrogate
the show implicitly becomes not about those spaces but about travelling between them
a kind of simulation tourism through media fragments with few relational implications for the visitor
but the condition of global art since the 1990s
a lot of it actually – the kind strong enough to stand alone without high-falutin discursive frames
Haneyl Choi’s compulsive plastic encasings of materials (Crying Uncle’s Room
2024) uncannily confuse fleshy bodies with mannequins
a queer inversion of Matthew Angelo Harrison’s encased ethnological artefacts further along in the show (Tip of the Tongue
Gaëlle Choisne’s photo-printed slabs of concrete are forcefully ‘strapped in’ to the gallery wall as if they were objects in history museums (Stèles
while Mira Mann – whose two sculptural presentations about Korean nurses in Cold War Germany are an undoubted highlight of the biennale – lures in the viewer with a work resembling an abandoned film set (objects of the wind
the most successful works are unsurprisingly those that problematize what space and its representation even are in the first place
Sung Tieu’s sonic spatialization of bureaucratic data opacity regarding oil fracking in contemporary America (System’s Void
2024) denies the viewer neat impressions of its subject matter and points to the complexity of imaging in our data-driven contemporary moment
we enjoy the triumphant return of Katja Novitskova
whose towering screen of rapidly flickering images of animals caught in trail cameras (Patterns of Activation
2021–ongoing) poses a pressing question: are artists always spatially situated
a desert-like diorama ominously illuminated by a digital clock
is effective because it dares to acknowledge and respond to the theatricality of the only space that Bourriaud’s biennale systematically ignores: that of contemporary art
not only because of his past theorization of this exact topic (see: relational aesthetics)
but also because he has a clear knack for celebrating the distinctive traits of contemporary art
the viewer is best advised to relinquish herself to a series of large-scale
phantasmagorical installations by Bianca Bondi
which most of all feel like theatrical or cinematic sets
These are not windows into or ‘about’ worlds but worlds in themselves: fake spaces that are lush
joyful and speculative exactly in their obvious artifice
They are the kind of spaces that only contemporary art – still – can make accessible to the public
we get a taste of what Bourriaud had perhaps intended with the theme of pansori: an opera you can walk through
but one that only begins to take form in Gwangju
15th Gwangju Biennale, ‘PANSORI: A Soundscape of the 21st Century’ is on view until 1 December 2024
Main image: Saadia Mirza, ‘PANSORI: A Soundscape of the 21st Century’
Courtesy: the artist and the 15th Gwangju Biennale
Jeppe Ugelvig is a curator and critic based in New York
was published by Damiani in May 2020.
The artist’s exhibition at Museu de Arte Contemporânea in São Paulo presents compelling investigations into surveillance
the artist merges seemingly incompatible visual traditions
challenging the binary thinking that once marginalized him
a show of work by Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh blends art and activism
In the artist’s show at Taipei Fine Arts Museum
sculptures made with recycled goods engage with cycles of consumption
a show of the Sino-Thai artist’s calligraphic abstractions invites meditations on history and impermanence
the artist’s show at Reena Spaulings Fine Art
suggests that what’s onscreen doesn’t matter
At 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
a group show about nature and technology asks visitors to listen to the trees
the artist reminds viewers of the political efficacy of games
the French-Algerian artist asks how we might mend connections and cultivate hope
the late composer’s sound installations commingle with restagings and responses
a group show subverts purist sculptural principles
memory and tedium to inspect the hidden realities behind everyday life
a show of the East Village artist’s photographs and archival materials paints a picture of her queer community
the artist’s sculptures challenge the ways bodies are scrutinized at nation-state borders
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With only four months to go until the World Lacrosse Championships
Team Belgium is preparing its debut on the world stage
A record 38 nations have registered to compete in that tournament
That number alone is indicative of the sport’s exponential global growth
A small trading country like Belgium cannot shy away from compelling international trends
and that is certainly the case for lacrosse
only a select group of youngsters attending the International School of Brussels (ISB) enjoyed the privilege of playing lacrosse in Belgium
Canadian and American coaches at the school and burgeoning student interest has made lacrosse one of the most popular sports at ISB
even though the school team had to travel to England and Germany for games
But that is only the beginning of the story
a small but intrepid group of university aged Belgians
who had seen this ancient sport played on television
approached those coaches and asked if they would organize a series of clinics at the school for aspiring Belgian players
Within months these pioneer players had organized a club team and others rapidly followed suit
these founding players had formed a highly organized six team league
established a board to oversee the sport’s growth in country and initiated youth and referee training programs with the support of the ILF
the Brussels Sports Association and the International School of Brussels
Belgium first tested the waters of international lacrosse at the 2012 European Championships in nearby Amsterdam
That first inexperienced but determined national team
consisting of the best players in the country and a few North Americans with Belgian roots
finished 15th out of the 17 European national teams competing
It nonetheless acquired invaluable experience preparing for and performing in that headline event
Belgian lacrosse has grown steadily since then
and the quality of play has improved markedly
A country known for its Trappist beers and rich chocolate has added an unanticipated passion for this ancient Native American game to its international profile
The players are now eager to test their improving skills against the world’s best
Tryouts for the national team began last September with the coaches only making final cuts this past December
The International School of Brussels has generously made its turf fields available to the “Belgium Beasts” and the team will be practicing with mounting frequency as the kick off in Denver approaches
a Canadian box lacrosse player with a wealth of coaching experience
He is also the head coach for the ISB Raiders team
who played four years for the JHU Junior Varsity team as an attackman and captained that team in 1982
He and Murawsky also founded the first youth clinics in Belgium
which are now held in the fall and the spring at ISB and which are playing a key role in growing the sport in the lowlands region of Europe
player/coach for the Braine Lions lacrosse team
He also played a season for Upper Moreland High School
General manager for the team is David Pucul
as he coached the Ghent Goblins team in 2012
Belgium will play a warm up match against France in Machelen
In the opening stage of the World Championships
Belgium will participate in the Red group along with European powerhouse Germany
The “Beasts” open against Germany on Friday July 11th
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In early September 2016 they tried to outdo each other in speculation and rumour
The only thing that seems certain is that the speciality beer producer Bosteels has been put up for sale by its owners
the Bosteels family and the private equity outfit Waterland
In 2014 Waterland had acquired a 50 percent stake in Bosteels
a 100,000 hl brewery located in Buggenhout
best known for its Kwak and Karmeliet beers
The brewery was founded in 1791 and is currently run by the 7th generation Antoine Bosteels
it had been Waterland’s plan to acquire a string of Belgian family breweries with the intent of securing a profitable exit
Hence Waterland’s somewhat premature exit after only two years
Belgian media have speculated that the asking price could be EUR 200 million or 15 times Bosteels’ 2015 profits of EUR 13.5 million
Many insiders wonder if Bosteels’ profits last year had not been massaged upwards a bit to justify the price
As to potential buyers: both Heineken and Duvel have been mentioned
without officially confirming or denying their interest
Another party with an interest could be the Dutch brewer Bavaria which has already bought Belgium’s Palm group of breweries
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CategoriesCategoriesEnglishECONOMY, CLIMATEBelgium's economic outlook sees challenges with job cuts
but strides in green technology1 October 2024
Belgium's economy is facing multiple shifts across in the automotive
pharmaceutical and manufacturing sectors while growing investments in green technology are on the rise
Here’s a breakdown of the key updates from several companies and sectors shaping Belgium's economic landscape
Audi Brussels faces an uncertain future after failing to secure a potential investor with a viable plan for its car factory in Vorst
The management informed the unions on Tuesday that no investor has come forward with a comprehensive strategy to take over the site
According to union representative Ronny Liedts of ACV
one investor proposed retaining up to 1,500 employees
but the plan was deemed unclear and unfeasible
secretary at ACV hinted that the investor might be West Flemish entrepreneur Guido Dumarey
“The fact that Goldman Sachs and KPMG were called in and nothing came of it clearly shows how difficult the sector is today." Audi Brussels confirmed there is no concrete takeover concept in place for the site’s employees
leaving the future of the factory and its workforce in doubt
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is set to cut 255 jobs at its Puurs site
following an international “operational efficiency exercise” conducted last summer
The company has reassured that reducing employment is "the very last resort" and has attempted to minimise the impact by saving costs elsewhere
the cuts add to the 150 temporary jobs that were recently not replaced
meaning that around 400 positions are affected overall
Pfizer’s role in Belgium’s COVID-19 vaccine production was significant
but the company reportedly overestimated vaccine demand
Pfizer’s major investment in the Puurs facility remains intact
with a 1.2 billion euro investment plan moving forward
Ontex’s Eeklo factory has finalised a social plan that will result in 350 employees losing their jobs
with the factory closing by the end of the year
is part of a broader downsizing effort that will also affect the Buggenhout branch
Separate social consultations have been initiated for the Buggenhout facility
though the outlook remains uncertain for its workers
Major investments in green technologies are bringing hope to Belgium’s industrial future
which plans to invest 1.5 billion euros in a plastic factory at the Vopak Energy Park in the Port of Antwerp
will create around 250 direct jobs and produce fossil-free polypropylene and polyethylene
waste processor Indaver is nearing completion of its new Plastic2Chemicals recycling plant in the Port of Antwerp
The facility will recycle polystyrene and polyolefins and is seen as a significant step toward a circular economy
is set to deliver its initial end product before the end of the year
Indaver’s plant aims to process up to 65,000 tonnes of plastic annually by 2028
Belgium’s economy, like much of the Eurozone, is benefiting from a reduction in inflation
which slowed to 1.8 per cent year-on-year in September—the first time inflation has fallen below the European Central Bank’s (ECB) 2 per cent target since June 2021
This drop is attributed to falling energy prices and could prompt the ECB to lower interest rates in the near future
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Diaper manufacturer Ontex wants to cut almost half of its Belgian workforce
489 jobs are under threat in Eeklo and Buggenhout (East Flanders)
The company points to production costs in Belgium that they say are "significantly higher" than in competitor countries
During special works councils the management announced "the intention to restructure its Belgian production and distribution activities"
the production plant in Eeklo will close with the loss of all 349 jobs
The production of care products for women and babies made there will be transferred to other European Ontex plants
the site in Buggenhout will be transformed into what is being called an "expertise centre for research
development and production of medium and serious incontinence care products"
although the company also promises 40 million euros in investments
The aim is to significantly modernise and automate production there
The manufacture of light incontinence products made in Buggenhout till now will move to another European plant in Europe
the research and development department and the commercial arm
The XIV edition of Partagás Friends Meeting
will take place between the 3rd and the 6th of July
organized by the Cigar Club Matelica "Don Alejandro Robaina"
from the city of Matelica in the province of Macerata
and Cuban singer Haila Mompié will offer a concert there
and with the collaboration of the Borgo Lanciano hotel and Cigar Club Association
collectors and fans of Cuban tobacco in Italy and other countries
many of which meet in these occasions to enjoy the famous Habanos and other benefits of Cuban culture
An extensive program of social and cultural activities announced the organizers of the traditional meeting
among which are the varied tastings; a peasant party and a street party in the Historic Center of Matelica; demonstrations of cigar rollers
which will take place on the night of July 5 at Enrico Mattei Square
during which Haila María Mompié will perform
Mompié is considered one of the most important Cuban singers; high level of improvisation and great vocal strength
characterize this artist who possesses an applauded voice capable of interpreting the different genres of the popular music of the Island
she has achieved important successes with her albums
On Saturday 6 will close these days a gala dinner at the Lanciano Forum
in which the global presentation of the Supreme Monte Cristo 2019 will take place
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He might have been the greatest male road racer ever
but in the late 1960s and early 1970s Eddy Merckx also built one of the best teams ever
When Italian coffee machine manufacturer Faema recruited Eddy Merckx in 1968
part of the deal was to provide the cash not only to pay Merckx but to let him build the best team he could
That agreement was preserved when Molteni took over sponsoring Merckx’s team in 1971
Merckx and his personal manager Jean Van Buggenhout enlisted the best talent possible
but with one proviso — anyone joining the team wasn’t just riding for anybody
Once the team was assembled there was a pretty tough regime implemented
Training started with a bang on January 1 each year
and riders were expected to stay fit through to the end of the previous year
They had to cope with what Merckx had in store for them
Wednesday and Friday the team met at his house just outside Brussels for a ride
And the ride plan was simple and unwavering
And they rode whatever the weather threw at them
“I used to see them,” said former British rider Barry Hoban
but the Flemish Ardennes are a lot nearer to where I lived in Ghent than they are to Brussels
I’d be on my way home and I’d shout
“Merckx always had riders around him towards the end of a Classic
He always had team-mates who could set the pace and close gaps
setting things up ready for him to attack.”
The training group would have a team car following them
food and drinks because there were never any stops
The car didn’t pick up stragglers though
Anybody who dropped behind had to make their own way back
then explain to the boss why they were late
Merckx would just tell the group it would probably do the same in the Tour of Flanders
Once back at Merckx’s place the riders showered and ate — usually the universal pro recovery food of Seventies Belgians
hot minestrone soup — then the group dispersed
they were expected to do their own training
It was a tough regime but when the season started in February
He was never less than competitive in his favourite first races; the Trofeo Laigueglia
Then Merckx would roar into the Classics. Winning Milan-San Remo seven times was no accident — it was based on those Monday
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He’s written 25 books about all aspects of cycling in multiple editions and translations into at least 25
different languages. He’s currently building his own publishing business with Cycling Legends Books, Cycling Legends Events, cyclinglegends.co.uk, and the Cycling Legends Podcast
stayed at the Sheraton Shanghai Waigaoqiao Hotel recently and was welcomed by general manager Depesh Seth
general manager of Regal International East Asia Hotel
Bozar presents a large-scale solo exhibition featuring the work of Berlinde De Bruyckere (b
Ghent) for the first time. Humanity and the condition humaine are at the core of her compelling oeuvre
De Bruyckere draws on various sources of inspiration: Christian iconography
the works of the Flemish masters and cultural lore
She introduces these influences into a contemporary context; the violence that surrounds us
the images of human suffering on a global scale
In Khorós De Bruyckere presents a selection of her works from the past 25 years
in dialogue with works of kindred artists – her “compagnons de route” as she calls them
The Greek Khorós (χορός) refers to the group of singers/dancers in Greek tragedies
The exhibition is thus conceived as an interplay of voices
Buy the Berlinde De Bruyckere: Khorós catalogue, published by Bozar Books & Mercatorfonds.
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