On Sunday, 22 October, the exhibition "Daring Visions - George Minne and Léon Spilliaert. From Symbolism to Expressionism." Also included are six museum suitcases from Paderborn university, which were created on the basis of a cooperation between the Belgium Centre and the museum in the subjects of Romance studies and art.
The suitcases invite visitors on an exciting journey of discovery: Belgian Symbolism has been rediscovered internationally since the turn of the millennium. Léon Spilliaert and George Minne are among the prominent representatives of this movement. Their works are represented in numerous exhibitions worldwide or are even the subject of solo exhibitions. They captivate a large audience. Nevertheless, their art is considered to be as attractive as it is difficult to access due to their own sophisticated formal language, multiple levels of meaning and mystical visions.
The six museum cases set up in the museum's graphics cabinet make Belgian Symbolism comprehensible to a large audience. They provide an example of an in-depth examination of selected works by the two artists and place them in their cultural and art-historical context of origin.
These cases, as well as 14 others, were created in the course of seminars in Romance Studies and Art under the direction of Prof Dr Sabine Schmitz from the Belgium Centre and Dr Larissa Eikermann in the summer semester of 2023. For this purpose, the students first went on the trail of the artists to Flanders and Brussels in order to then dedicate themselves to their work through their work on the medium of the museum case. Together with the students, a catalogue was created for the exhibition, which will soon be published under the title "Belgischer Symbolismus zum Be/Greifen nah".
This trip was made possible by the generous support of the representation of the General Delegation of Flanders in Germany and its head Mr Nic Van der Marliere, the Flemish tourism organisation VISITFLANDERS, the Faculty of Cultural Studies and the International Office of the University of Paderborn.
The exhibition will run until 3 March 2024.
Further information is available on the website of the Clemens Sels Museum Neuss.
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