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Ode to Joy: In conversation with Nick Andrews

Ode to Joy: In conversation with Nick Andrews Since his first exhibition at the Black Panther in March 1997, Nick Andrews has been a constant force in the contemporary Antwerp gallery. His recent exhibition ‘Ode to Joy’ is the twelfth in line. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1996. His […]

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World Fair ’58

Regional modernism part 1 Wim Aerts We are going on the architecture tour! In ’58 Belgium was all about innovative architecture and construction methods. Even today, the Expo ’58 pavilions continue to stir the imagination, with names like Le Corbusier, Renaat Braem and Leon Stynen making us long for those architectural heydays! Reinforced concrete and […]

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The Insider & Kate Maveau

Let us get acquainted with the woman behind our amazing videos and pictures! When she graduated as a film director at Rits, Brussels, her ambition and curiosity brought her to peculiar places in Wales and Berlin. Besides film, her passion includes photography, dance and music too. ‘ Composition, Colour and absurdism are, alongside surrealism, keywords […]

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The Insider & Ana Zoe Zijlstra

Art, literature, music, politics… socially and culturally this Insider is hugely educated. Ana Zoe Zijlstra is an art scientist and has already pursued an entrepreneurial and distinguished career. Every day she dedicates herself to the powerful art gallery Xavier Hufkens as Associate Director. Private Art Tours spoke with her! PAT/ Hello Ana Zoe, we know […]

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The Insider & Vera L’Ecluse

Each month The Insider at Private Art Tours explains the world of an art expert, this time we get to sit down with Vera L’Ecluse, Gallery Relations Coordinator at the powerful contemporary art fair Art Brussels. What makes an art lover an art expert? We were easily convinced by Vera’s fascinating stories. Vera L’Ecluse seen […]

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The fluorescent dream: the journey of research

Giovanna Tamà and Naomi Meulemans developed a material-technical study following the restoration of the painting Split Infinity (1977) by Herbert Aach (1923 -1985) and the doctoral research of Stefanie De Winter (‘When Art Turned Day-Glo: Marking the Impact of Daylight Fluorescent Materials in New York Art from the 60s and 70s’). In the spring of […]

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Research and restoration of ‘Self-portrait’, Permeke, 1928-1936, Oostende, MuZee

Although I looked up at the expressionist artists in 1936, I was already able to see with my own eyes how quickly their work was materially lost. I am reminded of the many cracks of Philibert Cockx’s over-applied crunch, the browns of Permeke, etc. René Smits in Flanders Magazine, 1983 The painting that was restored […]

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Vogel, Karel Appel (1921-2006) and the Myth of the Making

Karel Appel (1921-2006), one of the most important members of the CoBrA group, produced this work in 1954, as the signature and dating on the lower left give away: K.Appel’54. Appels Vogel, which is part of the extensive CoBrA collection of The Phoebus Foundation, stimulates curiosity.

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