National festivities

When going to the upper part of the city (I wanted to go to the Bozar for a few visits for free) I saw a series of horses comming up to the Parliament. It were the royal guards and they all lined up for the king and family to pass by.


Went afterwards to the Bozar and visited first the Jan de Cock exhibit - dreadfull (3/10)
Also saw the Young Belgian Painters Award 2009 - a few spectacular pieces I liked very much ! (8/10).
Went afterwards to visit the Cours des comptes/Rekenhof - a bit dissapointing.
Ended with the Museum of music instruments - always nice to do this one (8/10)
Was realy exhausted when i came back to the appartment for a little nap.
Afterwards went to a noodle restaurant in the centre (8/10)
Late in the evening saw the fireworks from my balcony.

A realy nice day !

Day in Brussels

After late breakfast went to the major exhibition of Marcel Broodaerts in the 'Paleis voor Schone Kunsten'. A experimental guy who in a first period made sculptures with eggs and mussels and went more into Literature-Experimental-Art afterwards. Visited afterwards the Errata-Hotel of the Flemish Government. What a beautiful weekend !!!! Thanks Hubert !!!

my anniversary

Went to art @ belgium at the big exhibition halls in Brussels. Galleries from all over the world exhibited their best contemporary pieces and I was curious what is the art-market for the moment.I was disappointed. I love photography, but almost one third of the complete exhibition where photographs. Too much for my taste. There were a few sculptures that I liked and at the most another 10 art-pieces caught my attention.
In the evening I was invited for a dinner at Armand & Co and afterwards we went out in Brussels. My god this was ages ago!!!

Lucerne - Switzerland - Hotel-room 10pm

..I visited the mirror-palace, it reminds me of my childhood, of those mirror-palaces at the Brussels-fair, where we got through, bouncing our head against those mirror-walls, while the people outside were laughing. This one is much better. By the way, do you know that you can get through 75% of maze by always turning rights - or always left...
...I visited also the Picasso-museum and have been attracted by an oil-painting of a boy looking at a lady who’s doing her hair ‘La coiffure’, where you can see the principle of his ‘art’ – looking at a person or an object by all the sides at the same time. But the image that impressed me the most was a photograph of the master himself, putting his first stroke of paint on a ‘virgin’-white canvas. It makes me think of the text I’ve written a week ago for my first exhibition, where I talked about the moment of creation. Then, thanks to the beautiful weather, went to the Tribschen-peninsula, where Richard Wagner lived a couple of years. Even if the museum was closed (I knew it beforehand), walking through the neighborhood gave me some kind of satisfaction. Afterwards went to the museum of art (in their temporary rooms till 2000). It was the first time that they asked me to put a cow - really a little object that sounds like a cow if you turn it up-side down – by the object of art that I disliked the most. I’ve put it on a kind of sound-art-environment that irritated me from the moment I’ve entered the room till the moment I left. But my god … what is art expensive. Should I reconsider my prices for my first exhibition in March?...