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Architecture office 'Bovenbouw' presents its work in all of its
variety and maps the rich world of references with which it
designs. It provides a look inside the variety of projects and the
rich world of references of the eponymous architecture office from
Antwerp. The book and the exhibition act as complements to one
another; autonomous, but all the richer when read together.
Intuitive yet thought out, and with a measured dose of humour, it
maps an extensive frame of reference.
This collection of essays by the Belgian philosopher and theorist
Bart Verschaffel, address issues concerning the meaning and
relevance of art today.Written over the course of his career, they
cover a rich and inventive range of topics, from laughter to the
artwork as gift, to splendor and modern beauty. This is the first
synoptic collection of Verschaffel's work with many of the essays
translated into English for the first time.
This book reveals that James Ensor did not develop his fantastic
and grotesque universe of masks and skeletons out of his
melancholic soul, but that he re-used and transformed an old image
tradition that was collected and published by the French author and
art critic Jules Champfleury in his History of Caricature. A second
essay analyses how these weird creatures infiltrate the image
borders and the frames of Ensor's paintings in order to disturb the
'normal' world.
An exploration of urban wildlife published by the Lilliput Press.
Wim Delvoye (b. 1965) is known for his inventive and often
controversial projects, and his work has been exhibited around the
world. One of a generation of Belgian artists who have
revolutionized contemporary art, Delvoye explores the body and its
functions, producing art that combines the attractive and the
repulsive, and addresses themes including religion and politics.
One of his most famous works is Cloaca, a digestion machine;
another significant project involves tattooed live pigs. Coinciding
with Delvoye's exhibition as guest of honor at the Louvre, Wim
Delvoye Introspective is the culmination of close collaboration
between the artist and distinguished scholars and critics. This
publication presents a complete overview of works by the artist,
demonstrating the range of media, technique, and thought-provoking
subjects that defines his art. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
The work of Dutch architect Charles Vandenhove has always evinced a
tension between his Modernist training and a desire to revise or
even reject that heritage, but the past five years have seen him
returning to his Modernist education, evolving towards a more
austere formal vocabulary. "Charles Vandenhove: Recent Work
1995-2000" clearly charts this development, in such striking
examples as the Staar complex in Maastricht, the renovation of the
Koninklijke Schouwburg and the Huygensgracht housing development in
The Hague. This monograph also addresses Vandenhove's standing as
an insider-outsider who is both highly esteemed internationally and
regarded as something of a maverick.
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