“What would Marcel Broodthaers do?” A statement by the Flemish artist DD Trans leads to a group exhibition with modern and contemporary artists from the Netherlands and Flanders. The common factor is their connection with the ironic and often cheerfully abrasive oeuvre of this idiosyncratic trailblazer.
Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) was one of the leading Belgian artists of the twentieth century. Like no other, he knew how to take everyday objects out of their usual context and provide them with a completely new meaning. His work is critical, poetic, layered and full of humor.
Even now, more than half a century after his death, his work is a benchmark for, or an influence on, the choices made by current artists in the Netherlands and Flanders. For example, DD Trans (Frank Tuytschaever) said he tested his work by wondering what Marcel Broodthaers would think of it. Works by the youngest generation of artists, including Willem de Haan and Lennart Lahuis, can also be classified in the Broodthaers tradition.
Just as Broodthaers looked for new coherence and connections in his oeuvre, his work in the context of this exhibition gives rise to the exploration of mutual coherence in the work of modern and contemporary Dutch and Flemish artists. The result: a classic Broodthaers-like environment, full of associative combinations and with resounding visual rhymes. On view until October 27, 2024.
With works by, among others: Marinus Boezem, Stijn ter Braak, Marcel Broodthaers, Pieter Engels, Willem de Haan, Lennart Lahuis, Chantal van Lieshout, René Magritte, Hester Oerlemans and DD Trans (ovb).
Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) was one of the leading Belgian artists of the twentieth century. Like no other, he knew how to take everyday objects out of their usual context and provide them with a completely new meaning. His work is critical, poetic, layered and full of humor.
Even now, more than half a century after his death, his work is a benchmark for, or an influence on, the choices made by current artists in the Netherlands and Flanders. For example, DD Trans (Frank Tuytschaever) said he tested his work by wondering what Marcel Broodthaers would think of it. Works by the youngest generation of artists, including Willem de Haan and Lennart Lahuis, can also be classified in the Broodthaers tradition.
Just as Broodthaers looked for new coherence and connections in his oeuvre, his work in the context of this exhibition gives rise to the exploration of mutual coherence in the work of modern and contemporary Dutch and Flemish artists. The result: a classic Broodthaers-like environment, full of associative combinations and with resounding visual rhymes. On view until October 27, 2024.
With works by, among others: Marinus Boezem, Stijn ter Braak, Marcel Broodthaers, Pieter Engels, Willem de Haan, Lennart Lahuis, Chantal van Lieshout, René Magritte, Hester Oerlemans and DD Trans (ovb).
June 29, 2024
