anger and fear in the forest

Charlotte Fuillet (FR) - GRRR - Le Vent des Forêts

Charlotte Fuillet (FR) - BOUM (French for 'boom' like the sound of an explosion) - 2007

Le Vent des Forêts - #134

www.charlotte-fuillet.com

www.leventdesforets.com/

something to read at Truc Troc

Delphine Boel - Shut up and listen blabla

detail

Bers Grandsinge - La naissance est une maladie - detail

artist unknown

detail of ...*

Ania Lemin

Suivre mon coeur

ne pas casser d'oeufs *

Si

Christophe Delhaye - Blind! - part of the installation on the right

part of work on the left

www.tructroc.be/

Kelly Schacht fell down the Rabbit Hole

COUP DE VILLE

Contemporary art in private houses, gardens, museums and public space.
More than 40 international artists on more than 25 locations.

I don't know where to start, but this seems like an appropriate beginning of an enchanting tour.

The tour takes us through the city of Sint-Niklaas in Belgium, which by the way has the largest market square of the country.  We enter grand old houses, empty factories, an abandoned schoolhouse, a beauty salon, a restaurant, a studio in a backyard ... and back a alley leading towards garage boxes with a hidden secret.

One of these garages hides a door leading to a wonderful garden hidden from any one's sight.

This unknown and hidden passage between two different worlds made artist Kelly Schacht (BE) think of 'Alice in Wonderland'.

Going down the Rabbit Hole

I love it!!

We've seen great things and are definitely going back to see the other half of the tour.

Coup de Ville
until 24 October 2010
http://www.warp-art.be/
www.coupdeville.be/wordpress/
curated by Jan Hoet

Contact Kelly Schacht : http://www.iets.be/

more posts in the next days

Vent des Forêts - hidden art

Along a small trail in the dense forest we find the surprising work of Lorentino  "cherchez cachée" meaning something like "look for hidden".  And indeed it is not obvious to spot this from a distance between the trees.

We saw this work the second day of our long forest walk and it is part of another we spotted the first day quite some distance from this one.

Lorentino - cherchez cachée - 2006

# 128 and 128bis on the list of artworks, click HERE for more information, I could not find a website for the artist.

Le Vent des Forêts - Wind in the Forest

In July, six villages in the forest - in the Meuse region (France) - invite international artists to take a different look at nature and create works displayed along a 45- kilometre footpath through 5.000 hectares of forest. About 90 from the 165 works made since 1997 are still on the site.  Accessible every year from February until late September.


www.leventdesforets.com/

Click HERE for more posts on Le Vent des Forêts.  More posts on the many artworks will follow.

artartartartart - à propos d'écritures

à propos d'écritures 
      could be translated as about writing
We got there just in time to see this one, it was the last day of the exhibition at the Maison de la Culture Famenne-Ardenne.  Quite a drive to the south part of our little country, meaning the artworks are primarily - if not all - in french.  Don't have pictures of all the artists works.

Pierre Jeghers

Laurent Sfar

Dorothée Van Biesen

Myriam Hornard

Alain Bornain

Eric Pougeau

Paul Mahoux

Miller Levy

Laurent d'Ursel

François du Plessis

...and here is how we actually got here.  We saw the following as a 'work in progress' in the artist's studio in Germany a short while ago and were curious to see the final result, it is the front column with the gap in the center, hard to see in the picture ... the gap.

François du Plessis - http://www.duplessis.de/

To view the work in progress and more posts on François du Plessis - type his name in the 'search this blog' tool on top right of the page.

Centre d'Art Contemporain du Luxembourg belge  www.caclb.be
www.maisondelaculture.marche.be

letters and words

Just a few snapshots from this day

Irish literature with a view

The Guinness Storehouse, a place worth visiting. Located in the heart of the St. James's Gate Brewery, the Guinness Storehouse is a 7 storey visitor experience.

The Gravity Bar at the top floor is a 360 degree panoramic bar. This is where we ended our day with a nice dinner, a very good live music band, and the best view over Dublin while the sun was setting. Perfect.