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triennial of contemporary art

Every three years international artists invade public and private spaces along the 60 km of Belgian coast from end of March until end of September.

So, on a not so beautiful summer's day...

Michal GABRIEL (CZ) - Players - 2000-2010

Isaac Cordal (ES) - Waiting for the Climate Change - 2012

his tiny sculptures make me smile every time I see them

Jaume Plensa (ES) - Yorkshire Soul I - 2010

Folkert De Jong (NL) - Monument pour un Saltimbanque - 2012

Melita Couta (CY) - The Wanderer - 2012

in 2007 she participated in Agorafolly-Europalia in Brussels, HERE is the post

Erwin Wurm (AT) - Big Coat - 2010

Wear me out - open air solo show in Antwerp in 2011 HERE

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Roger Claessens at Tempus Arti

fifth edition of the triennial Tempus Arti

Multi-discplinary artist Roger Claessens brings up social, cultural, economic, political, historical problems but leaves the interpretation to the spectator.

The opening of the Tempus Arti art tour was at the cold store of BFV (Belgian Fruit Auction) which is empty just before the harvest season.
Two of these cold rooms were the perfect setting for two of his works:

Roger Claessens - Cornelius Gross Last Meal

"On Wednesday 23 February 2000, Cornelius Gross, 38, was executed at the Walls Unit in Texas USA for beating a man to death with a board during a 1987 burglary"

The fact that a man who is hours before his death would choose fruit as his last meal, and not oysters or caviar for example, made an impression on Roger Claessens.  The man wanted to die with the taste of pure nature.  And doesn't fruit refer to paradise?

in the second cold room a video is projected showing a snowy landscape...

Roger Claessens - too far to feel emotions

a link to the short video on Youtube HERE

on another location...

Roger Claessens - stil-leven (still-life)

sorry for the poor quality of the picture, it was taken from behind glass

Roger Claessens - What if God is a fish

in the former army barracks more work...

in the last room I suddenly come across a long row of pictures of an installation I've seen. 

Roger Claessens - United Battlefield Cemetery, Victims of Fate

This installation moved me deeply... a link to the post on that HERE

Thank you Roger Claessens for your kind and moving explanation on your work during the opening.  It was very nice meeting you.

more posts on Tempus Arti : click label below

Maria Lucia Cruz Correia at Tempus Arti

the fifth edition of the triennial Tempus Arti opened last sunday with a great performance

Maria Lucia Cruz Correia (Portugal)
from nature to nature

a barren field...

12 silent figures are half burried, they seem to 'grow' on the field

in front of each individual a pile of apples which they slowly eat in silence

a striking performance ... persons reduced as plants fed by nature

Life is the icon of survival and nature is the icon of life.

the artist Maria Lucia Cruz Correia

performance, installations, public interventions, activism

www.luciartwork.blogspot.com

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until 16 September 2012

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Tempus Arti - previous and present

barn - before and after

Let me show you what we've been doing these lasts months. Part of it, we've been working on many things.

Our barn as it used to be...
the small pigsty a few months ago...

and last week during the art tour Kunst op het Hof...

drawings on the wall by Clemens Maassen

wooden assemblages and found art by hildA de schutter

the large space of the barn in the not so distant past...

and now...

paintings by Clemens Maassen

installations and wooden sculptures by hildA de schutter (link is this blog)

more specifications on artworks in the next posts

We had over 1500 visitors over three days during the art tour Kunst op het Hof, it was worth all the work.

I will be posting regularly again from now on, I first need to sort hundreds of pictures...
I'm glad to be back

Arbus Reïnc at Kunst op het Hof

Finally...
time to reveal why this blog has been sleeping so long

We - painter Clemens Maassen from Maastricht, Netherlands and myself, hildA de schutter - have been 'planting' a tree in the orchard.  Made with reclaimed wood from the barn it honors the fallen old apple tree, victim of last year's summer storm, but still 'alive and kicking'.

We've been very busy clearing and repairing the barn and stables to welcome artists at our location during the three days of the art tour. 

Kunst op het Hof

7 - 8 - 9 July 2012

9.30 AM - 7 PM

Lubbeek, Pellenberg en Binkom - Belgium

Will post more in the coming days...

Elodie Antoine - playful textiles

Les Fêtes de la Saint-Martin at Tourinnes-la-Grosse is a fun art tour.  Farmhouses, stables, barns, small village houses, derelict garages ... invite artists during the weekends of November. 

First, there is a small group of selected artists for the exhibition of contemporary art.  Second, dozens of other artists open their studios or exhibit in their friends' houses.

Curator of the contemporary art exhibition Elodie Antoine, with one of her installations in the stables of an old farmhouse.

Elodie Antoine

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One can tell by the number of pictures taken I liked this installation, looks like a golden virus is taking over the building.  By coincidence, a nasty flu got me a few days later.

view more on past and present Fêtes de la Saint-Martin by clicking label under this post