Approaching Grand Hornu, the former coal mining complex in southern Belgium, in the heart of Hainaut, one is immediately struck by the scale and discipline of its architecture – neoclassical buildings, workers’ housing, and vast halls that once thrummed with the...
Namur is about to get noisy – in the best way possible. From October 23 to 26, the KIKK Festival will turn this charming Belgian city into a full-blown symphony of sights, sounds, and, yes, occasional robot chaos. This is the 14th edition of KIKK, and it’s going...
Lunar Disc I is one of the most emblematic works by British sculptor Emily Young, and its placement at the entrance to the XV Florence Biennale carries profound significance. It serves as a symbolic prologue to this year’s theme – “The Sublime Essence of Light...
French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin (born 1980) at the presentation of her twenty-year retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (M HKA), admitted to journalists that she feels like a “Mediterranean artist” – as she was born in Marseille. In my...
I think only one person in a hundred could tell the full name of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828), where the father’s surname Goya tolls like a bell of the 18th century, and the mother’s Lucientes shimmers with musical...
