New art in Antwerp 1958-1962
dal 29/3/2012 al 12/5/2012
Segnalato da
Felix De Boeck
Prosper De Troyer
Marthe Donas
Marc Eemans
Pierre-Louis Flouquet
Jean-Jacques Gailliard
Paul Joostens
Jos Leonard
Karel Maes
Jozef Peeters
Victor Servrankx
Georges Vantongerloo
Hubert Wolfs
Freek Wambacq
Jan Ceuleers
Ronny Van De Velde
29/3/2012
New art in Antwerp 1958-1962
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen M HKA, Antwerp
# 2 must we teach the blind to see? Homage of G58 to the first abstract painters in Belgium. The five instalments of new art in antwerp 1958-1962 do not mean to offer a comprehensive survey of the subject. Rather, they evoke characteristic moments and figures from that brief but fulsome era. They constitute a serial of coloured tales with debatable accents.
Curator: Jan Ceuleers, together with Ronny Van De Velde and M HKA.
Homage of G58 to the first abstract painters in Belgium. Works by Felix De Boeck, Prosper De Troyer, Marthe Donas, Marc Eemans, Pierre-Louis Flouquet, Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Paul Joostens, Jos Leonard, Karel Maes, Jozef Peeters, Victor Servrankx, Georges Vantongerloo and Hubert Wolfs. With an insert by Freek Wambacq.
Antwerp 1958. In the shadow of an ever growing and increasingly profitable world-class port, there lies a city that is both sleepy and threadbare, where art and culture are way down the municipal agenda. The meeting between Lode Craeybeckx, a mayor with a broader vision, and a group of young artists urgently determined to have their work seen, leads to the founding of G58 Hessenhuis. Paradox: the attic of the city’s oldest port building, with 1000 m² of surface area, becomes Europe’s largest exhibition space devoted to contemporary art. Until the curtain falls in 1962, this ‘forest of beams’ is active as a bustling point of intersection for a new network.
This series of exhibitions is sponsored by Delen Private Bank and is realized in collaboration with FoMu and Letterenhuis.
The five instalments of new art in antwerp 1958-1962 do not mean to offer a comprehensive survey of the subject. Rather, they evoke characteristic moments and figures from that brief but fulsome era. They constitute a serial of coloured tales with debatable accents. And, what is more: following the archeologists’ customary practice, parts of the ‘excavation site’ have been left untouched for the benefit of those who eventually follow in their footsteps.
A young Belgian artist whose work, in terms of content and form, refers to what was then new art, will take integral part in each of the exhibition’s five instalments.
Image: Victor Servranckx, Paysage nocturne avec bruits de trains. Opus 16, 1923. Privé-verzameling
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