art design kitsch ...

Jul 16, 2012

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

Jul 7, 2012

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...

May 23, 2012

Bodys Isek Kingelez at Oiron

I'm working on new projects for an upcoming art tour I will talk about very soon.
The theme of the tour is fragility, subtheme on our location is urbanisation. The difficult and fragile balance between cities and rural countryside.

I'm finding great inspiration in this...
my apologies for the very bad pictures shot in a tiny and dark servants' room in the grand Oiron Castle

the narrow corridor to the servants' quarters

Bodys Isek Kingelez (DRC) - Allemagne à l'An 2000 (Germany in the year 2000) - 1988

Bodys Isek Kingelez - Paris Nouvelle - 1989

Bodys Isek Kingelez - Italie - 1989

The artist builds models of fantastic cities in cardboard. Fun and playful, I'd love to be able to wander through his joyful universe.

Bodys Isek Kingelez

Château d'Oiron

Curios & Mirabilia

Collection Fonds National d'Art Contemporain

Contemporary art at Château d'Oiron

May 22, 2012

Roger Raveel in concrete

A constant in Roger Raveel's work is the use of mirrors in his paintings and assemblages. So is the image of the typical concrete walls in gardens throughout Belgium. Third : silhouettes of people.