The exhibition - 'Modern ist Vorgestern' (O. Kokoschka)
Since the summer of 2021 Evert established his studio at the Leie in Astene. For someone who studies the history of painting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this is no coincidence.
Inspired by the Leie painters and the Latem school, he steps outside with canvas and palette in a quest for light and colour. Just like them, he paints his landscapes in direct dialogue with reality. His brushstrokes obsessively note every stroke of light and colour.
Sometimes the painterly madness seems near. A colourful explosive force that we also know from works by Van Gogh and Oskar Kokoschka.
With oil paint, he explores the enormous range of visual and technical possibilities. Debusschere consciously and physically studies the various painting styles from the end of the 19th century to the interwar period. By doing so, he also discards what is allegedly contemporary, opting resolutely for the madness of the stimulated retina and the stimulated mind.
This exhibition consists of a selection of works from the last year, in which Evert centrally shows one large winter landscape in the Citadel Park of Ghent, flanked by solid spring and summer works on the surroundings of Ghent and Leie.
In all the works, we see the stormy madness of colour. The obsession of an artist who rejects the so-called modern.
Because... 'Modern is the day before yesterday'.
'Ghost of Flandria'
Che Go Eun is a Korean artist, in Belgium she studied at HISK. Che Go herself describes her artistic research as follows: Art can bring provocative and sensitive issues to the table. My artistic position is not only aesthetic way but also it implies political issues. In addition, the first impact of art will be artistic beauty and visual pleasure, and with ends, it will give enlightenment with unpleasant truth.
My artworks reflect manifestations of disparities regarding sex in Korean culture some of which are linked to the following: Firstly, the distorted sexual culture projected on women in Internet societies. The influence in Korea of Confucianism, It produced the social structure of patriarchy and a male-dominated society.
Che Go Eun's work shows a fantastic influence of Korean and Western culture, creating a totally new visual language.
Che Go's work will soon be on display at the railway stations in Bruges and Leuven, as part of EUROPALIA - Trains & Tracks - Arts Festival - 14 October 2021 to 15 May 2022