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ART ON PAPER [5/10/2023 – 8/10/2023]
 

Art on Paper, the international drawing fair in Brussels, will be held from 5 to 8 October 2023 in an exceptional setting: the Tour & Taxis Gare Maritime.

Art on Paper presents a unique panorama of the quality and diversity of contemporary, modern and Old Master drawing’s approaches through the organization of an international fair dedicated to this practice.

The Art on Paper fair offers the different publics, professionals or amateurs, to discover the plurality of drawing and works on paper selected by more than 60 Belgian and international galleries, established or emerging.

  • VIP PREVIEW – 5/10: 13:00 – 17:00
  • VIP VERNISSAGE – 5/10: 17:00 – 21:00
  • PUBLIC OPENING – 6-8/10:  11:00 – 19:00

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ARTISTS
Hugo Claus (1929-2008), Paul Van Hoeydonck (1925), Lukasz Kurzatkowski (1958), Mi Van Landuyt (1939), André Willequet (1921-1998), Claude Panier (1956-2021)

Mi Van Landuyt, Untitled, mixed media on handmade paper, 17, x 13 cm
Lukasz, Untitled, 2015, linocut, 23 x 21 cm
Paul Van Hoeydonck, Untitled, 1957, gouache on paper, 16 x 11 cm
Hugo Claus, Untitled, Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper, 14 x 18 cm
 
 

Belgian POP ART [5/8/2023 – 1/10/2023]

Evelyne Axell, Guy Baekelmans, Balder, Fred Bervoets, Hugo Claus, Etienne Elias, Marie-Louis Londot, Pol Mara, Stéphane, Mandelbaum, Marcel Mariën, Cel Overberghe, Guy Peellaert, Roger Raveel, Yvan Theys, Frank Van Den Berghe, Marcel Van Der Plancke, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Mi Van Landuyt, Jacques Verduyn, Muriel Xhrouet

Etienne Elias, Leve de Belgen, 1967, oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm
Louis-Marie Londot, Voiture de course et son pilote, 1967, oil on canvas, 75 x 200 cm
Stéphane Mandelbaum, Miguel and Mimi, pencil and felt marker on paper, on panel, 145 x 100 cm
Marcel Van Der Plancke, Untitled, 1971, oil on canvas, 160 x 130 cm
Mi Van Landuyt, Untitled, 1968, gouache and collage on paper, 31 x 31 cm
Cel Overberghe, Untitled, 1971, acrylic/oil on textile and wood, 91 x 55 x 11 cm

Welcome

The Maurice Verbaet Center is a center of expertise primarily dedicated to Belgian postwar art. It strives to help forgotten Belgian postwar artists worth (re)discovering to rightfully reclaim the spotlight as well as to further promote their better-known peers. Under the supervision of Maurice Verbaet, a team of professionals takes on the preservation, conservation, investigation and display of the collection. This collection features thousands of top pieces by various Belgian artists. Representative of ‘Les Trentes Glorieuses’, the period between 1945 and 1975 during which Belgian art once again thrived, it is the most extensive in its genre. A handful of carefully chosen more recent works form the perfect complement to this predominantly postwar ensemble. 

The Maurice Verbaet Center opened a new art gallery in Knokke, namely the Maurice Verbaet Gallery. This gallery, where most of the works on display are for sale, has recently secured a new, grand space in its seaside hometown. Art lovers can admire a regularly changing selection of works from the collection.