With his posters, illustrations, television animations and his many exhibitions the world over, Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005) marked the global imaginary during the last third of the 20th century. He was a humanist who left behind him a figurative and poetic body of that, anchored in traditional techniques, were quite atypical in the artistic landscape of his era.

Sculpture knocked like a challenge that Folon threw himself into headlong in the second part of his career. Throughout the 1990s, ...

Pierre Culot (1938-2011) was een Belgische keramist/beeldhouwer.

Pierre Culot werd opgeleid door Antoine de Vinck en de Engelse meester-pottenbakker Bernard Leach. Hij behoorde tot de generatie keramisten uit de jaren 1950 die van hun ambacht een kunstvorm maakten. De klei die hij draaide, tot plakken vormde, afkrabde en verniste veranderde in courante gebruiksvoorwerpen met een majestueuze présence. Hij bleef zijn leven lang trouw aan zijn initiële pottenbakkerservaring, en liet zijn werk ...

The first publication about the building of the Academia Belgica in Rome, residential facility and research centre for Belgian artists and researchers in Rome. Constructed between 1937 and 1939 by both an Italian and Belgian architect, in a style both modernist and art déco, the building has preserved not only its exterior but also in large parts its original interior decorations and even furniture.

This book covers the various stages of the realization of the original building and its inte...

The book covers the details and technical wonders of 60 wristwatch models that went down in history for their innovation in shapes, materials, and production methods.

This handsome volume reproduces a wide selection of her intensely colourful images, with an introduction by the art critic Duncan Macmillan, Emeritus Professor of the History of Scottish Art at the University of Edinburgh, and accompanying photographs, maps and historical information.

This beautifully illustrated book, with over 300 colour illustrations, showcases masterpieces of 19th century Orientalist art with work by Delacroix, Decamps, Berche re, Bridgman, Ziem, Ge ro me, Corrodi, Dinet, Matisse, Majorelle and many others. Text in English and French.

Splendid Isolation is a group exhibition that seeks to explore the particular conditions of life in solitude, and more precisely the creative impulses it can nourish. Bringing together an intergenerational and international group of artists, it centres on the artistic output that is induced by life under self-imposed or forced restrictions and foregrounds herein a number of positions. They include working conditions in which artists have been brutally cut off from their environment, have opte...

Tijdens de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw waren Victor Horta en Henry Van de Velde de twee grootste Belgische architecten van de art nouveau. Maar ze werkten ook voor de Belgische spoorwegen. Horta heeft zich zo meer dan 30 jaar bezig gehouden met het ontwerp van het station Brussel-Centraal, al zal hij de realisatie ervan nooit zelf meemaken. Aan de hand van ongeziene en onuitgegeven archiefstukken volgenwe de ontwikkeling en het moeilijke proces van dit project, dat niet minder dan 3 verschil...

This publication, the fourth volume of an important catalogue raisonné of the work of Francis Picabia (1879-1953), includes paintings and selected drawings dating from 1940 into 1952.

During the war years, while still residing in the south of France, Picabia was primarily occupied by figural subjects - multi figure allegories, female nudes, and glamorous female "portraits" - painted in bold illusionistic relief. Notorious even in his lifetime, most of these works are now known to have adapte...