Baigneuse Sophie Langohr

Tache aveugle Serge Goldwicht

Roby Comblain

Belgium is an accident of history, a political ineptitude, a rickety construction? Certainly, and that is where its opportunity lies: Belgium is constitutionally sheltered from any illusion, whether national, historical or cultural. Barely born, it has already seen it all. From the outset, it only had itself to cling on to. This “metaphysical nudity”, this “anthropological exception”, this “gain of existential time” are threatened by a wily, detestable and highly perverse phenomenon: Belgium is becoming fashionable! The Belgian has aged, he watches himself being Belgian and ends up mimicking his own image, necessarily caricatured, outlandish, demoralising. In the face of this distressing observation, artists are joining the resistance and, armed with all their cruelty, endeavour to take Belgium out of fashion. Will the exhibition lead to the exposure of Belgium? It is a lot more exciting than that: it is art without anaesthetic, it is the truth under the scalpel, it is surgical pleasure.”

Laurent d’Ursel, Curators of the exhibition

ARTISTS : Archimède, Pascale Barret, Patrice Bauduinet, Annick Blavier, Didier Bourguignon, Fabrice Boutique, Maurice Boyikassé Buafomo, Pol Bury, Guy Cardoso, Christian Carez, Jacques Charlier, Roby Comblain, Klaus Compagnie, Carlos da Ponte, François de Coninck, Théophile de Giraud, Raphaël de Just, Juan d’Oultremont, Laurent d’Ursel, Escrovici, État belge, Anne Feuillet, Yves Fleuri, Filip Francis, Philippe Geluck, Audrey Gérard, Noël Godin, Hugo Godoy, Serge Goldwicht, Thomas Gunzig, Jean Harlez, Steve Houben, Philippe Hunt, innuit siniswichi, JeanF Jans, Claude Katz, Fadila Laanan, Caroline Lamarche, Sophie Langohr, Jacques Lennep, Thierry Lenoir, Docteur Lichic, Daniel Locus, Emilio Lopez-Menchero, Michel Loriaux, Xavier Löwenthal, Marcel Mariën, Marie-France & Patricia Martin, Pierre Monjaret, Johan Muyle, Lieven Nollet, Patrick Roegiers, Chéri Samba, André Stas, Cédric Stevens, Vincent Strebell, Stroff, Jean-Marie Stroobants, Walter Swennen, Hélène Taquet, TupperWavre, Marcel Vandeweyer, Johan Van Geluwe, Eric Van Hove, Patrick van Roy, Wauthier van Steenberghe, David Vranken, Alexandre Wajnberg … et les 25 finalistes de Miss SDF belge 2010

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La Centrale électrique
European Centre for Contemporary Art
Wednesday > Sunday
10.30 > 18.00
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€ 5 – € 4 – € 2 (Art.27 / Sodexho)
€ 7 Combined ticket with City hall of Brussels
Free < 15 ans