Haute Cuisine - design

A nice loft/store/gallery/studio along the canal in Leuven-Belgium

We were able to peek inside during the Kunstroute-Leuven art studio tour some days ago.

2 young designers present their original light sculptures

the last picture is certainly giving more ideas for the barn we need to get ready for the upcoming art tour this summer

www.haute-cuisine.be

check their great ideas, and find out what is hidden behind the door in the restroom!

related posts from the previous editions of the art tour : Kunstroute-Leuven

Luc Coeckelberghs - LightHouse

A castle, a garden, a park... and art

In the shady part of the park on a grey day...

a bright light with a door...

with a view inside the light...

open the door, step inside, close the door and be submerged into an endless variety of continiously changing colours...

A link to a video that starts with an interview of the artist HERE

interview in French with English subtitles

Luc Coeckelberghs - LightHouse

open air exhibition

CABANES

Château de Seneffe

Seneffe, Belgium

until 13.11.2011

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Dan Flavin Light Sculpture

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Cabanes at Château de Seneffe

De Werktank - factory for new and old media art

During the 'Kunstroute Bierbeek' art tour we get to see what is happening in an old milk factory.  The great space has become the creative work space to a few artists.

Impressive light sculptures against the ceiling,  A wire sculpture against the wall... but these are not part of the art tour itself.

Wim Jansen - Static

A few months ago I saw this intriguing piece at another art event.  This time I tried to capture the movement in a very short video :

click arrow to start - very short - video

in another room ...

Wim Jansen - Continuization Loop

click arrow to see the movement of the work

2 works about the phenomenon of television static

My husband willingly demonstrating Reversed Blinking by Ief Spincemaille

'Imagine that your head is captured inside a photo camera...'

Ief Spincemaille - Behind The Horizon

"I am sitting on the beach and I keep a yardstick in front of me, parallel with the horizon. They say that the Earth is round and I want to verify if this is true. But my yardstick appears to be too short or the earth not round enough."

Starting from a childhood memory, Behind The Horizon wants to visualize the bending of the Earth. It is an attempt to look behind the horizon. Not with a yardstick, but with a huge tube with a length of 10.832 km. This tube was carried by 310 volunteers at the Belgian Coast on the 14th of May 2010. The middle of this tube is resting on the ground. Five km to the left and 5 km to the right of this center point, the tube is already 229 cm removed from the earth's surface. A straight tube hanging above a convex Earth. A clearly visible and comprehensible image of the bending of the Earth.

Kurt d'Haeseleer - Scripted Emorions

De Werktank

click to enter site and learn more about the different projects and artists.

Kunstroute Bierbeek - art tour
on 7 locations In Bierbeek, Brabant, Belgium
last weekend : 28 - 29 May 2011, from 14h - 18h
http://www.deborre.be/


more posts the next days

Luminous - a bright exhibition

Africa Festival at the Royal Museum for Central Africa

After weeks of tropical temperatures in Belgium, it happens that this day is a very cold one...

The large canvases are from artist in residence Sammy Baloji, photographer from DR Congo.  For the series 'Congo Far West' he copied very old photographs from the early years of colonisation and mounted them on images of watercolours made in the former Belgian colony.  The images were chosen from the museum's collection.

artists in residence Sammy Baloji & Patrick Mudekereza until 4 September 2011

next to other ongoing exhibitions, it is the opening of Luminous-Lumineus-Lumineux, part of Fetish Modernity.

90 light sculptures were chosen from 300 entries

visitors are voting for their favourite lights in the exhibition, difficult choice...

This is a pretty weird picture to me as my light seems so much smaller than it actually is (149 cm), the man looks like a giant next to it.

Johan Govaerts - Hilde Poleunis

Bart Callens

Carine Tripnaux

Arne Reynaert

Françoise Giaotto - Louisa Moyson - Marthe Vanhoutte - Anne Vanderstraeten

Collectif 2x10

Françoise Van Hauwaert

Hilde Beckers & Staf Van Pelt

Karin Rooms - Fred Maes

Kourbatoff Natasha

Limke Verhellen

Marc Bauwens & Marleen De Vos

Marien Van Mechelen - An Lanckman

Marina Hazenberg

Monsieur Herbert

Rotsart De Hertaing Françoise

And the winners of the public vote & of the museum's personnel vote are ... in random order

Greta Wouters with a light made from screen wipers!

 Jane-Sylvie Van Den Bosch with a heart-melting 'Odile Croc'

Pierre-Olivier Monthuy, the Butterfly on the left

Ingrid Ravoet - Palimpsest  on the right

just my cup of tea... I'd love this in my home right now

The overall winner with prizes in both categories is an intriguing piece with an ingenious electric circuit. 

Cobowawa - Défense d'y voir - detail

It was impossible to take photos of all of them ... too many people, difficult lighting conditions, sculptures against wrong backdrops... the choice above is not a personal one of the best light sculptures. many gorgeous pieces were hard to photograph.

My apologies for the bad quality of the pictures, but view the whole collection HERE

LUMINOUS - LUMINEUS - LUMINEUX

part of Fetish Modernity exhibition

Royal Museum for Central Africa

Tervuren - Belgium

until the end of August 2011

www.africamuseum.be

Oshu(n)mare

Today, I'm delivering my Good Mood Light named
Oshumare
at the Afrikamuseum in Tervuren - Belgium, for the upcoming exhibition Lumineus-Lumineux.

In Yoruba mythology, Oshunmare (also Oshumare, Oxumare) is a divine serpent which is believed to create the rainbow, both male and female, and is a symbol of creation, human procreation and the link between the world of the mundane and that of the ancestors

Ochumare (Oshumare, Oxumare) - rainbow deity, divinity of movement and activity, guardian of children
source : Wikipedia


Lumineus - Lumineux
15 May - end of August 2011
part of Fetish Modernity exhibition
Afrikamuseum




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Good Mood Lights