Flemish painters

Emile Claus, Arab Smoking a Cigarette, 1879

Gustave Van de Woestyne, Nude Girl, 1926

Rik Wouters, The Bathers, ca. 1912

Edgard Tytgat, When the Husband Goes Hunting, 1954

Frits Van den Berghe, Self-Portrait with Skull, 1938

James Ensor, The Comical Meal, 1905

Goeiemorgeuuuuh

, Anna Du bist super!!!!

Installation shots of "Anna Oppermann/Neverending Paradox. 

Philosophical Ensembles of the late 1980s" at SMAK, from top to bottom:

On the one hand... on the other hand; both...  and (M+M), 1988-92

Paradoxical intentions - To lie the Blue down from the Sky,  1988-92

Myth and Enlightenment, 1985-92

Oppermann called these ensembles 'exercises in observations and insight that are in principal infinite'.

gatenkaas, smoskes en piepschuim by Kasper De Vos & bustes by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

Studio by Kasper De Vos @ HISK Open Studios 2017 

Pop

The last avant-garde  - on design in Italy in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. 

With utopian, playful, exotic, postmodern, kitschy and all sorts of crazy designs 

by among others Memphis, Archizoom, Superstudio, Ettore Sottsass,...

@ Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch

Venetian lions

'Next to the painting a painting of a hand panting' - Philip Guston

'Philip Guston and the Poets' and the frescoes of the Italian Renaissance masters

@ Gallerie dell'Academia, Venezia

lunch

Guy Rombouts @ NICC

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