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 Copyright © 2025 ArteFuse.com All Rights Reserved Our website uses cookies to improve your experience. Learn more about: Cookie Policy Eeklo site to close; Buggenhout site to be transformed into a Center of Excellence for R&D and production of medium and heavy incontinence products 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 Artlyst 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 CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZINE SINCE 1980 More... 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 Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" ASSOCIAZIONE JULIET – via Battisti 19/a – 34015 Muggia (TS) Juliet art magazine è pubblicata a cura dell’Associazione Juliet - direttore responsabile Alessio Curto autorizzazione del Tribunale di Trieste registro informatico C.F./P.IVA 00699740320 | c/c postale 12103347 | SWIFT UNCRIT M10MC | IBAN IT75C0200802242000005111867 | UNICREDIT Banca Trieste This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page 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 View upcoming auction estimates and receive personalized email alerts for the artists you follow 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 Please enter your email below to reset password 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 We would like to thank our sponsors: BrandTrends as well as La Plume Dorée learn more We use web cookies to offer you a better experience on our site. By clicking on "Accept" you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy 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 focussed on revealing our core business: “protecting against the improbable” “Protecting against the improbable” lies in offering an unprecedented range of innovative solutions using high-quality products which are able to meet all the demands of ground-breaking architects for their original public and private building concepts IFS’ core business has been devoted to passive fire protection in three separate industries: –          Road and rail tunnels across Europe –          Petrochemical and gas production sites REGARDS Exhibition from 7 to 11 June 2012 in the private spaces at the Palais de Tokyo 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 © 2023 Hudson One Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy Please enable JavaScript to view this page correctly 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 © FRIEZE 2025 Cookie Settings | Do Not Sell My Personal Information 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 Follow Belgium lacrosse and the Belgium Beasts on Facebook Copyright at Laxallstars.com Grow the Game® 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 Belgium sales international beverage market Newsletter archive and information A leading international personal hygiene group wanted to achieve a high level of safety and efficiency for machine maintenance interventions Read how Brady Corporation has helped Ontex to implement efficient Lockout/Tagout-procedures that deliver optimal maintenance safety and speed for a wide range of machinery in Buggenhout Together with a specialised distributor, Brady offered its expert safety procedure writing service LINK360 safety procedure software and the devices and padlocks to implement Lockout/Tagout in the workplace about 350 procedures were offered to Ontex stakeholders via the LINK360 software that allows for easy approval communicating and scaling machine specific safety procedures.  Based on customer-approved lockout procedures the distributor and Brady established a comprehensive lock & key-plan to fit specific Ontex requirements This included carefully laid out key hierarchies with master and grandmaster keys at several management levels for the various types of suggested locks Brady also provided the actual lockout devices and SafeKey padlocks to implement the lockout-procedures in the Ontex workplace Every SafeKey lock was customised with a serial number engraving and they were delivered in lock boxes per set of 10 Ontex Buggenhout can now efficiently communicate the use of optimal lockout-tools in step-by-step machine-specific lockout procedures Easy compliance with the approved procedures increases maintenance safety approve and communicate changes from a central Every digitally approved procedure can then be printed and attached to relevant machines or can be accessed directly by employees via tablet or smartphone Read the full case study >> Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker ​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 Copy linkGet updates in your mailboxYour email addressSubscribeBy clicking "Subscribe" I confirm I have read and agree to the Privacy Policy rapid and high-quality information 24 hours a day from Belgium and abroad to all Belgian media not to mention entertainment and lifestyle our journalists and press photographers produce hundreds of photos and news stories Since the end of March 2022 English has been added as a language businesses and various organisations that need reliable information Belga News Agency also offers a comprehensive range of corporate services to meet all their communication needs www.belganewsagency.eu 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 Receive our Digital Newspaper completely free It reflects the events of the contemporary arts and their different manifestations in the Caribbean and the Americas.Privacy Policy 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 Thank you for reading 20 articles this month* Join now for unlimited access Enjoy your first month for just £1 / $1 / €1 *Read 5 free articles per month without a subscription Try first month for just £1 / $1 / €1 newspapers and websites throughout the world 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. Highlights tour in Dutch Highlights tour in French Choose your interests and get the latest news from Bozar straight to your mailbox Centre for Fine ArtsRue Ravensteinstraat 231000 Brussels Offices: Offices : +32 (0)25078430 Tickets: tickets@bozar.be Call center: +32 (0)25078200