Overzicht 40 jaar beeldend werk, met bijdragen van Marc Ruyters, Eric Rinckhout en Koen Leemans.

Kris Fierens (°1957) gebruikt het karakter van een voorstudie of een schets als een volwaarding ding. Of in hun mogelijkheid imiteren ze het karakter van een voorstudie. Realiteit en emotie bereiken een virtueel nulpunt. De gebaren of gestes die hij hierbij stelt worden gewoon de 'objets trouvés'. Het object 'an sich' is nooit aanwezig. Het is de meegenomen materie die hem in staat stelt om zijn ...

De tekeningen van Cathalijn Wouters zijn meer dan een voorstelling van inkt op papier. Geroemd om hun krachtige, universele emoties uitgedrukt in schijnbaar een enkele zwarte lijn op een witte ondergrond, is de techniek weliswaar dienstbaar aan het narratief maar is de identiteit van de kunstenaar altijd herkenbaar.

Na eerdere boeken (Beyond Reality en Independent), is Remember Me haar eerste boek dat geheel aan haar tekeningen is gewijd. Meer nog dan in haar neo-impressionistische olieverfsc...

From Hello Kitty to Maneki Neko--Japan is the epicentre of global cat culture!

Whether lurking in corners or taking center stage, cats are a ubiquitous presence in Japanese art. Depending on the situation, they may invite good fortune, prompt the viewer to meditate on a tale or provide evidence of an unseen world of magic and supernatural happenings.

In 200 charming woodblock prints, paintings, screens and figurines spanning three centuries, Japanese art expert Rhiannon Paget celebrates the r...

‘100MJ’ concerns an intuitive and personal drawing project about identity by Dutch artist Bas Kosters. The book shows a series of a hundred full page drawings based on the image of Michael Jackson. It is about how people are shaped trough the eyes of others, the reach of recognizability and identity. It plays with the ideas about visual culture and recognizability. In hundred portraits drawn on ephemera Kosters shows, in a poetic manner, man in all their strength.

Over the course of 202-2021, during the pandemic, Kara Walker has produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval 'Book of Hours'. Enigmatic images appear to traverse a range of time periods, from scenes of biblical and mythological origins, to images of historical violence, to others that suggest more recent political strife. The highly personal nature of these images capture Walker's own response to the intersection of past and present as a way to understand our contemporary politica...

A magnificent introduction to the Cobra art movement

With French as its working language, Cobra was pretty much the last truly European movement within Modernism. The group’s anarchic story is not just an important strand in art history — it remains as lively as ever and has inspired all sorts of artists who were never directly involved with Cobra. The work bequeathed to us by Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Constant, Corneille and other kindred spirits is as fascinating as ever, both raw...

Tatyana Galtseva was born in Kemerovo (Siberia) in 1967 and has lived in Antwerp, Belgium, since 2000.

Besides her daily work at the Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience, she took several courses (ceramics, painting) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berchem. Since her studies at the Academy, Tatyana has been working as an independent artist in her own studio.

An important source of inspiration in her search for her own forms and her own style and colour palette is the art theory of the founder o...

The eighteenth century is the most international, most European century in Dutch (art) history. This book, with 100 of the most beautiful and surprising objects from the Rijksmuseum's collection of eighteenth-century art and history, demonstrates this beautifully – even if only by the iconic picture of a Dutch girl at breakfast painted in 1756 by Swiss artist Jean-Etienne Liotard. Many other paintings, sculptures, pieces of furniture, silver and golden showpieces and other works of art were...

The Brueghels are the most famous family in the history of Western art. They were innovators and entrepreneurs who were active from around 1550 to 1700. Their roots in Brabant played a major role in their art, which focuses on the people, land, and culture of this region.

For almost two centuries, the Brueghels produced hundreds of paintings, drawings, and prints that captivate and entertain viewers. These works are admired for their witty compositions, universal messages, and exceptional cra...