The publication Open Field explores and amplifies the work of Raffaella Crispino between research and practice in the eponymous exhibition held at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Tournai, within the framework of the Europalia Arts Festival. In the publication, photographs of the works produced and installed in the museum are presented together with working documents, sketches, notes, historical photos, exchanges with scientists, references and architectural documents. The publication takes t...

Mercy (Politics) derives from Zlatko Kopljar and Luc Tuymans’ two-person exhibition titled Mercy (December 22-February 23, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania). The book revolves around the politics in the artists’ work, as well as their political views. It consists of an extensive interview with each of the artists and a curatorial statement by Ory Dessau, the editor of the book and the curator of the exhibition mentioned above.

Candles is a photographic essay by Tim Onderbeke. Fascinated by the sacred, ritual, and cerebral act of lighting a candle, the artist began collecting images of candles and candlesticks in an artistic or art-historical context. In Candles, Onderbeke uses his own work and that of others to research what he calls “the colour of darkness,” or negative space – a concept he borrowed from the Japanese writer and essayist Jun’ichirō Tanizaki. Tanizaki describes this intense experience he ha...

An insatiable hunger for pictorial and formal experimentation fuels the practice and particularly diverse body of work of this artist. Various styles and media are blended in a flamboyant ode to painting – an eruption of composition, color, materials, and sculptural interventions. Belgian artist Narcisse Tordoir (born 1954) challenges the viewer to sharpen their gaze and question the status of the image. For him, that image, and by extension visual art, is a place of wonder and mystery, a g...

Historiographical accounts of the American artist Donald Judd, and of Minimal art in general, have focused primarily on the debates surrounding the emergence of his work in the United States, and New York in particular, from the mid to late 1960s. Little is known about Judd’s early exposure in Europe in between the artist’s inclusion in a group show at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden in 1965, up until his first solo show in Europe at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherland...

'A Max De Vos' is a novel by Liam Gillick. A fairy tale in 25 chapters, littered with Belgian proverbs, 'A Max De Vos' alternates between a flaneuristic tour of the historical surroundings of the Brussels Palace of Fine Arts and the fortunes of a young artist making his way to that very institution, without ever arriving. part fiction, part autobiographical, the novel also takes cues from historical sources on the Brussels Palace of Fine Arts and a 1918 British book of stories collected by Je...

The mini catalogue Firminy gathers 11 paintings on paper and an in situ installation by Koen Van den Broek, made for his eponymous solo exhibition at the Regent-Reychler gallery in Saignon, in the south of France. The paintings, that belong to a larger group of similar works on paper, are inspired by the Saint-Pierre church in Firminy designed by Le Corbusier, and carry the same spirit as the building in terms of light, volume and linearity. These works reveal the interesting and direct relat...

Dynamic Project II is published on the occasion of the retrospective Philippe Van Snick – Dynamic Project in S.M.A.K.. This publication complements the book Dynamic Project from 2010, an illustrated monograph that offers an overview of the work and life of the artist between 1970 and 2010. Dynamic Project II picks up where Dynamic Project left off: it starts in 2010 and continues until the death of the artist in 2019. The research and writing for this second book was done by Wouter de Vlees...

Karel Verhoeven (15 november 1982 - 23 september 2021) is een Belgisch beeldend kunstenaar en vormgever die vanuit grafische media gaandeweg ruimtelijk, audiovisueel en performatief ging werken. In zijn werk behandelt hij de relatie tussen de geconstrueerde omgeving en sociale interacties. Met referenties aan architectuur en muziek is zijn werk telkens een uitnodiging aan de spelende mens.

Met als uitgangspunt een vaststaand kader - het grid van de dagelijkse strip in de krant - maakt hij tij...