Het werk van Moens is noch formeel, noch figuratief. Het loochent het onderscheid tussen zuiver abstracte schilderkunst

en een schilderkunst die betekenisvolle elementen incorporeert, zoals woorden of beelden. In plaats daarvan experimenteert het met soorten verf, oppervlakken en tekens, waarmee ambigue verschijningen en ruimtes tot stand komen die tegelijk factisch en illusoir zijn.

Het werk van Moens is niet enkel een reflectie over en een respons op de fysieke randvoorwaarden opgedrongen ...

De sculptura is de bundeling van een reeks beschouwingen over een aantal concrete sculpturen die kunnen leiden tot een

inzicht in de beeldhouwkunst. Het gaat over kunstwerken die hier en nu inwerken op onze geest en onze verbeelding zoals

ontelbare andere beelden en afbeeldingen dat doen. Dat de beeldhouw- kunst, meer dan elke andere kunstvorm, erin slaagt

om ons te blijven boeien over de grenzen van tijd en ruimte heen, heeft te maken met het gegeven van de traagheid van

het medium waard...

Kunstenaars en academici; hoe ver staan ze werkelijk van elkaar? In zijn essaybundel Kunstenaars denken verkent prof. dr. Bert Willems de positie van kunstenaars in de academische wereld vanuit een radicaal positieve instelling. Hij stelt voor om kunstenaars als integraal onderdeel van de academische gemeenschap te beschouwen en benadrukt dat het unieke denken van kunstenaars van waarde kan zijn voor alle betrokkenen. Het ‘kunstenaarsdenken’ biedt een verfrissend perspectief in vergelijki...

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.

Elsje Dezwartes book Coil is a visual and cerebral reflection of everything and nothing, of how humans experience and live through time. It is about human experience across generations; caught in an infinite time loop. The cadence and rhythm of the images slowly carry the viewer along, as time passes. The reader becomes part of the scene and decides for themselves the direction and sequence of events. Are they looking at the present, the past or the future? The landscapes develop their own ch...

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...

"We could compare Van Puyvelde’s approach to painting to an instinctive, all-encompassing vision, a careful and patient observation of a small plot of land where every is silent, but where everything is happening at once, where the wind varies, the lights move, and where that which often remains in its place suddenly seems to be no longer there." These are the words used by art critic Domenico de Chirico to describe the work of Belgian artist Tom Van Puyvelde.

Tom Van Puyvelde (b.1985) live...