Brussels

// LV X BXL //

Brussels. March 26th 2018 - Louis Vuitton opens a new temporary store located on 30 Boulevard de Waterloo in Brussels, only a few steps away from the original store, which will be closed for renovations until the end of 2018.

The temporary store premieres the Men’s Ready-to-Wear Collection, for the first time presented in the Belgian capital. In addition, the offer features the Women’s Ready-to-Wear Collection, just as a range of leather goods, shoes, accessories, watches, jewelry and fragrances of the House.

All reunited in a wide space on the ground floor level, the temporary store invites on a journey through the different universes of Louis Vuitton, whilst not only discovering one of the furniture pieces of the Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades collection, but also art work by Belgian artists as well as intriguing objects curated at Belgian antique dealers, all subtly incorporated in a modern setting.

The Louis Vuitton temporary store will be open to public from March 26th until mid-November 2018.

TEMPORARY STORE LOUIS VUITTON

Boulevard de Waterloo 30, 1000 Brussels

// It’s my OWN //

Starting this week, MAD Brussels welcomes you to the universe of OWN. The former fashion designing duo invited a bunch of artists to dive into their archives.

For little less then a decade, Thierry Rondenet and Hervé Yvrenogeau had a shop in Brussels, thought at the prestigious fashion academy La Cambre and collaborated with high end brands like Maison Martin Margiela or Acne Studios.

The guest artists range from Thierry Boutemy to Leonardo Van Dijl and will guide you through the duo’s work via re interpretation, and turning it into their own.

 

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Exhibition from

16th March 2018 until 17th June 2018

MAD, 10 place du nouveau marché aux grains

1000 Brussels - Belgium

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/ by Gaelle Van Lede /

// ABECEDAIRE, TO MY OLD FRIENDS //

The Belgian artist Eric Croes is holding his new exhibition 'To my old friends' at the art gallery 'Sorry We're Closed' in Brussels. His art is a juxtaposition of techniques, objects and ideas. The works of his exhibition were created by following four simple steps:

1 / Take a sketchpad

2 / Write a letter of the alphabet on each page

3 / Draw your favourite words (his 'old friends')

4 / Create a 3D assemblage of a selection of these words: one sculpture per letter.

His work invites us to feel the joy of working with our hands. However, "To my old friends" is not so much about the objects themselves; it is more about the story Eric Croes tells us through his drawings and sculptures. His art conveys a special energy: something spontaneous and emotional at the same time.

 

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Sorry We're Closed

 until May 20th

 67 rue de la Régence

1000 Brussels

www.sorrywereclosed.com

Courtesy Sorry We're Closed

Photos©Hugard & Vanoverschelde

 

 

 

/ by Souria Cheurfi /

// FOAM TALENT //

Foam presents a selection of 21 innovative image-makers under the age of 35 to feature in their annual Foam Magazine Talent Issue, and in a group exhibition at Brussels’ De Markten and London’s Beaconsfield.

 Following the annual Talent Call, the exhibition brings together the diverse and personal portfolios of a young generation of international photographers. It presents Foam’s view on the current state of photography and creates a platform to introduce emerging talents, with a total of over 1200 submissions from 67 countries

Foam Talent

De Markten

Brussels

19.3.2016 – 14.4.2016

 

 

Current Studies 2013 © Sjoerd Knibbeler. Courtesy the artist and LhGWR, The Hague.

In heaven the darkness is quite beautiful 2011 © Justin James Reed. Courtesy the artist.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// KLEDZE HATAL //

D+T Project Gallery presents the latest works by Sébastien Bonin in which the Brussels based artist continues to explore the limitless levels of reading related to the stories associated with the Native American Navajo society.

 Through the photographic technique of the photogram Bonin focuses on the essence of the pattern-design in the Navajo’s unique clothing – the colours and the structure – to create complex geometric compositions by projecting luminous rays of light onto photographic paper through a set of colourful gelatine filters.

 The final images, hand cut and with visible traces of fixing lines and scotch, are enclosed in raw, untreated and stained brass frames, reminiscent of the material used by the Navajo to manufacture their jewellery.

Sébastien Bonin - Kledze Hatal

D+T Project Gallery

Brussels

17.3.2016 – 7.5.2016

 

 

© Sébastien Bonin. Pictures by Ludovic Beillard Courtesy the Artist & D+T Project Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// MARTYRS //

During the remainder of the Klara Festival, BOZAR presents the video installation Earth Martyr, Air Martyr, Fire Martyr & Water Martyr (2014) by artist Bill Viola, at the Cathedrals of St Michael and St Gudula in Brussels.

 Departing from the perspective of the ‘witness’, which is the original Greek meaning of the word martyr, Viola confronts the visitor with the suffering of four martyrs subjected to the extreme, invincible forces of nature. The video, which is shown on four plasma screens, ends with a blinding light that shines on the four dead martyrs, The artist encourages the audience to reflect on themes like death, the hereafter, compassion and sacrifice.

Bill Viola

Earth Martyr, Air Martyr, Fire Maryr & Water Martyr

Cathedrals of St Michael and St Gudula

Brussels

9.3.2016 – 24.3.2016

 

 

© Bill Viola. Courtesy Bill Viola Studio and Vanhaerents Art Collection.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// PLATYPUS //

After the Bear, Eric Croes introduces a panoply of animals and random objects to his playful and totemesque reinterpretation of the Surrealists’ exquisite corpse drawings.

 The Platypus, once mistaken for a mythical assemblage of different animals in itself, leads the way.

 

 

Eric Croes - Platypus

Galerie Albert Baronian

Brussels

30.10.2015 – 19.12.2015

 

 

 

© Eric Croes. Courtesy Albert Baronian.

 

/ by Kim Poorters /