Quand Hans Op de Beeck rencontre les maîtres flamands

Quand Hans Op de Beeck rencontre les maîtres flamands : © Studio Hans Op de Beeck, ADAGP, Paris 2023    Quand Hans Op de Beeck rencontre les maîtres flamands : © Stella Ojala, ADAGP, Paris 2023    Quand Hans Op de Beeck rencontre les maîtres flamands : Nature morte au pichet Huile sur bois, 39,5 x 55 cm  Valenciennes, musée des Beaux-Arts, dépôt   


The exhibition


It's a dancer in a stage costume waiting, eyes closed, a cigarette in her hand, in suspense. Or this little girl blowing into a bubble, and this nascent bubble that has not yet taken flight. Or this man on horseback looking back, frozen in expectation of something we can't identify. All the elements composing these figures, sculpted in polyester, steel and brass, have the same ashen grey hue, suggesting a veil of monotony and sadness. These fictional environments produce a diffuse uneasiness, they suspend time and recall the silent life of the paintings of the Flemish artists exhibited in the Museum of Flanders. Although they are several centuries apart and therefore of very different quality, the symbolic meaning of these works is ultimately the same: in a melancholic tone, they question our relationship to time and the finality of our lives. The polymorphous Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck - whose work includes videos, sculptures, installations, drawings and photographs - also proposes certain creations that directly echo the museum's paintings. This is particularly true of his watercolors, which resonate with the landscapes painted by Gijsbrecht Leytens and Joos de Momper. This investment of the museum by the contemporary artist is also an opportunity to discover the twenty or so Flemish paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries on deposit since April 2022 belonging to the Valenciennes Museum of Fine Arts (and in particular Bosch, Brueghel, Van Dyck or Rubens).

Emma Noyant

When


31/03/2023 - 03/09/2023
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