Another Thing 💬 🗯️ The Story Issue

A few weeks back Chris was finally able (it’s still high on my list) to see the extraordinary ‘POWERMASK’ exhibition curated by none other than Walter van Beirendonck at the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam. For ‘POWERMASK’, the museum with a focus on ethnology gave the legendary Antwerp fashion designer a free hand to present his own unique, multi-faceted vision of the phenomenon of masks. The result is a stunning colorful display, marrying ethnic masks and ethnological photographs with modern Western fashion and art. Which is both a feast for the senses and  proof how relevant van Beirendonck’s vision remains to this very day. He might have found a more niche position as a fashion designer (and a more invisible role as Head of Fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp), the exhibition, although much smaller, shows echos of his iconic Antwerp exhibition ‘Landed/Geland’ from 2001, which at time set a new standard what fashion exhibition could be in terms of presenting context next to aesthetics and therewith speaking to spectators in more than one way. 

On show until Januari the 7th.

As said above, here our feature on (in my eyes) the most promising young Belgium artist we’ve seen in times!

…the young painter invites us into his personal universe, which technically turns out to be the universe created by his grandfather, sculptor Lode Eyckermans, that only was adopted by the young painter after graduating.

Bendt’s first solo exhibition named ‘The clouds have gathered’ will run until November 25 at Kusseneers Gallery in Brussels. Located at the Menenstraat 10, in the Molenbeek district, it is opened Thursday through Saturday from 14:00 until 18:00 (or on appointment).