paloma picasso

photos from 'Picasso, Inventory of a Life', a documentary about his wives, his children, his houses (especially La Californie) and his inheritance.

Poveglia for sale

beacon of light

September 2013, NEST @ Cinema Off Off Ghent

Pieter Breughel I and II, the Elder and the Younger

Pieter Brueghel de Jonge, 'The Census at Bethlehem', 1605-1610

Pieter Brueghel de Oude, 'De Dulle Griet' ('Mad Mag'),  1561

Pieter Brueghel de Oude, 'Twelve Proverbs', 1558
'De Maanpisser' painting reads Vat ick vervolghe en geraecke daer niet aen ick pisse altyt tegen de maen.

All these paintings are part of the Museum Mayer van den Bergh collection.

Fritz Mayer Van Den Bergh

Necklace with 44 cherry pits, all in the shape of a unique head, 1480-1499

Pieter Breughel the Elder, 'Carnival and Lent', 1600

Pieter De Bloot,  'Drie drinkebroers' ('The Three Drinkers'), 1625

Frans Pourbus, 'Parable of the Prodigal Son', 1500 (+ detail)

Museum Mayer van den Bergh opened its doors in Antwerp in 1904, three years after the death of art collector Fritz Mayer van den Bergh. The museum was founded by his mother, Henriëtte van den Bergh. Henriëtte saw it as her duty to realize Fritz’s dream of having his own museum. It became the first museum in the world to be built around a single collection.

decorum

KOENRAAD DEDOBBELEER

"The Desperate, Furiously Positive Striving of People Who Refuse to Be Dismissed"

@ Extra City Kunsthal, until May 25th, 2014

de Nacht van de Lange Messen

Night of the Long Knives ('De Nacht van de Lange Messen'), Nikolai Tolstoy, 1990

The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu

Film stills from Eric Baudelaire's "THE ANABASIS of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 years without images", 2011, Super 8 and HD video. More information here. 

Some of his other works are on show at KIOSK until June 15th: the exhibition L’œil se noie is the result of an intuitive dialogue between Baudelaire and Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc. Their work stems from a shared interest in the gaps and fissures that make up stories, as well as the challenges and promises they hold.

Paradijstuintje

Paradijstuintje ('Little Garden of Paradise'), 
a Hortus Conclusus (or 'enclosed garden'),
circa 1410-1420, tempera on wood,
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Happy May Day Springtime !