Exhibition
Les Marcel - Collection R.PATT
- Museum
With the works of Marcel Broodthaers • Marcel Duchamp • Marcel Marïen • Marcel Vandeweyer • Jean-Michel Alberola • Stephan Balleux • Frank JMA Castelyns • Sébastien Delvaux • Dialogist-Kantor • Takahiro Kudo • Lou Dubois • Man Ray • Mathieu Mercier • Laurence Skivée • Walter Swennen • Christophe Terlinden • Emmanuel Tête • Jasper Johns • Saâdane Afif • Ben • Camille Leherpeur • Richard Hamilton
When
25 May 2023 to 31 July 2023Where
- Museum
Doors
12 > 20hOrganiser
Botanique
A MAN, A WOMAN,
COMPLETELY UNCONNECTED TO ART OR THE ART WORLD.
SHE IS A KINDERGARTEN ASSISTANT,
HE IS A GARDNER. WELL... A GARDEN CONTRACTOR.
HE WALKS THROUGH GARDENS, THROUGH APPARTMENTS
WHERE PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES TAKE CENTRE STAGE.
HE TALKS ABOUT THEM TO HIS SPOUSE, AT NIGHT, WHEN HE COMES BACK HOME.
THEN HE BUYS THE FIRST BOOKS AND CATALOGUES,
TO SCRATCH BENEATH THE SURFACE, TO FIND OUT A BIT MORE.
BUT THEY OFTEN FEEL LIKE AS THOUGH THEY WERE TRYING TO “READ CHINESE”.
NOT KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT ART, HE SWAPS HIS WORK WITH PIECES WITH THE ARTISTS FOR WHOM HE WORKS.
THEN THERE ARE VISITS TO EXHIBITIONS AND GALLERIES,
ENCOUNTERS WITH ARTISTS,
THE FIRST PURCHASES… PRINTS OR LITHOGRAPHS,
AND AT LAST, A TENTATIVE TRANSACTION IN AN AUCTION ROOM.
THE VIRUS SETS IN.
HE IS MAINLY INTERESTED IN MODERN ART AND SURREALISM,
SHE IS MORE INTO CONTEMPORARY ART.
THE TWO COMBINE TO FORM A HARMONIOUS WHOLE.
Chantal R.PATT
