VIDEOS
BRAFA Art Talk on Paul Delvaux by Camille Brasseur
The 2024 BRAFA Art Fair edition was all about surrealism. With the Paul Delvaux Foundation as guest of honour, the fair programme included an Art Talk given by Camille Brasseur, Director of the Foundation Paul Delvaux Museum, on Tuesday 30 January 2024.
Speaking about "Paul Delvaux (1897-1994). From Clear Dawn to the End of the Day", the lecture traced the development of Paul Delvaux's work throughout his early periods up to the emergence of his own style. It was an excellent opportunity to highlight the recurrence of themes dear to the artist and to establish links between the little-known early works and the masterpieces. The itinerary is an invitation to discover both the work and the man, since they are intrinsically linked.
Tune in and enjoy the registration of this BRAFA Art Talk, organised in partnership with the Paul Delvaux Foundation.
BRAFA Art Talk 2023 with Prof. Dr. Werner Adriaenssens on Art Nouveau
The 2 February 2023 BRAFA Art Talk was hosted by Prof Dr Werner Adriaenssens, Curator of 20th Century Collections, Museum Art & History, Brussels, who spoke about the King Baudouin Foundation's Art Nouveau collection. Art Nouveau is the first true Belgian style that reached its peak around 1900. It is associated with architecture and decorative arts. Its main representatives include Victor Horta, Paul Hankar, Henry van de Velde and Philippe Wolfers. In more than 20 years, the King Baudouin Foundation has built up an important collection of Belgian Art Nouveau masterpieces. Each artwork has a fascinating history that is explained in its historical context.
Talk given in French, English subtitles.
Registration by ZOOM Production.
BRAFA Art Talk 2023 with Benjamin Zurstrassen: on the birth of Art Nouveau
At the BRAFA Art Talk of 31 January 2023, Benjamin Zurstrassen, curator of the Horta Museum, analysed the reasons for the emergence of Art Nouveau. The unprecedented artistic and architectural form of expression in Brussels around 1893 was highlighted in terms of its identity, contradictions and difference from the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain. The birthdays and names of the major architectural styles often conceal nuances, secrets and explanations that raise the question of what Art Nouveau actually was, its manifestations and its protagonists.
Talk given in French, English subtitles.
Registration by ZOOM Production.
Restoring Van Eyck: challenges of the Ghent Altarpiece
A BRAFA Art Talk by Hélène Dubois, the Head of the Project of the Conservation of the Ghent Altarpiece, the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) Brussels. The lecture 'Restoring Van Eyck: challenges of the Ghent Altarpiece' was given at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in Moscow on November 12th, 2019.
The event was organized by the BRAFA Art Fair and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in Moscow in partnership with VISITFLANDERS.
The international BRAFA Art Fair offers many chances to discover artists, eras, artworks, famous art-world characters and to broaden our knowledge of art and the art market. Mark your calendar for the next BRAFA edition: Sunday, 26 January - Sunday, 2 February, 2020. www.brafa.art
On the cover: Mystic lamb, Saint Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent © www.lukasweb.be — Art in Flanders vzw photo Dominique Provost
MASTERPIECES FROM THE LARGEST FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION OF RAPHAËL WORKS
By Mathieu Deldicque, Cultural Heritage Curator at the Musée Condé, Domaine de Chantilly
The 500-year anniversary of Raphaël’s death is the perfect moment to rediscover the largest French collection of his works after the one held at the Louvre. The Condé Museum in Chantilly has the good fortune to have three important paintings and numerous drawings by the artist in its possession.
Each was acquired by the greatest French collector of the 19th century, Henri d’Orléans, the Duke of Aumale, who deeply admired Raphaël. We now know much more about not only his motivation for collecting these artworks, but also the way he obtained them, the intermediaries he employed and the competition he faced. Since their acquisition, and even now as an exhibition is being prepared for spring 2020, the treasures of Chantilly keep revealing their secrets.
The Duke of Aumale was unaware, for example, that a third painting by the artist was hiding in his collection: it was not in the Getty collection but in Chantilly that the original Madonna of Loreto was discovered in the 1970s! The story of this revelation will be followed by an account of more recent discoveries that have been made about the paintings and drawings by Raphaël held at Chantilly.
Video by Biapal
Conversation with Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson is an American playwright, artist and collector
Conversation conducted by Christiane Struyven, Art Historian and honorary lawyer
During this conversation, Robert Wilson shares his experiences in theatre and the visual arts. Born in Waco, Texas, Robert Wilson is one of the world’s foremost theatre and visual artists. His works for the stage are unconventional, integrating a wide variety of artistic media, including dance, movement, light, sculpture, music and text. Aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, his images and productions have been acclaimed by audiences and critics worldwide.
Having been educated at the University of Texas and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, Robert Wilson founded the New York-based performance collective ‘The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds’ in the mid-1960s, and developed his first signature works, including Deafman Glance (1970) and A Letter for Queen Victoria (1974-1975). He wrote the seminal opera Einstein on the Beach (1976) with Philip Glass. This talk was presented in partnership with the BERNIER/ELIADES Gallery in Brussels.
Language: ENG
Video produced by Matthieu Wolmark of BIAPAL
Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution
By Till-Holger Borchert, Director of the Musea Brugge and Co-curator of the exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Language of the talk: ENG
In this talk, Till-Holger Borchert discussed the preparations and research underway for the largest Jan van Eyck exhibition ever. Only about twenty works by this Flemish master have been preserved worldwide. At least half of them travelled to Ghent in 2020 for the exhibition Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution at the Fine Arts Museum in Ghent that took place from 1 February until it had to close earlier than planned (30 April 2020) due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The masterpiece at the centre of the exhibition was without doubt the Retable of the Mystic Lamb which has undergone extensive study and restoration since 2012. In order to ensure visitors could fully appreciate Van Eyck’s revolutionary optical approach, his paintings were shown next to about a hundred works by great artists working at the same time as him from Germany, Spain, France and Italy.
This talk was organized in partnership with CODART, the international network of museum curators specialising in Flemish and Dutch painting. Till-Holger Borchert has been a member of CODART since 2001.
The video was produced by Matthieu Wolmark of the non-profit association Biapal.
Image:
Jan and Hubert van Eyck, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, 1432, Saint Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent © www.lukasweb.be - Art in Flanders vzw
Keith Haring
By Darren Pih & Alberta Sessa, Curators of the Keith Haring retrospective at BOZAR (06/12/19 → 19/04/2020). Darren Pih is Curator at Tate Liverpool and Alberta Sessa is Curatorial Project Coordinator at BOZAR.
Language of the talk: ENG
On the occasion of an extensive retrospective organized by Tate Liverpool and presented by BOZAR, Darren Pih and Alberta Sessa will discuss the work of the iconic American artist and activist Keith Haring (1958-1990). The artist emerged as part of the vibrant New York art scene of the 1980s. He produced a large body of work: large-scale drawings and paintings, videos, collages, posters, painted objects and murals. He was actively engaged in various battles that targeted drugs, HIV/AIDS, apartheid and the nuclear arms race. Keith Haring believed that art truly should be for everyone. For him, the city streets and subways in New York City were legitimate spaces for showing art. In October 1986, Haring was invited to paint the west side of the Berlin Wall by a group monitoring human rights violations in East Germany. The result is a work depicting an interconnected chain of his signature figures in the colours of the German flag. An overt political statement, the mural is an ‘attempt to psychologically destroy the wall by painting it’.
Video produced by Matthieu Wolmark of Biapal.
