Extended : Faces of Cuba by Patrick Blanche
5 January to 24 March 2024

A Cuba, le Puro (cigare), fait partie intégrante de l’identité nationale et constitue un véritable art de vivre. Des vieux édentés mâchent un double corona, des ouvriers arborent des robustos fraîchement roulés et des femmes plantureuses allument des panetelas. Ces portraits illustrent une vraie curiosité ethnologique de Santiago de Cuba. La force d’expression de ces […]

Jérôme De Perlinghi – Sixty Seconds – 26 October > 23 December

Discover over 100 portraits of well-known personalities captured by Jerome de Perlinghi, celebrated Belgian photographer and Artistic Director of the “Eyes on Main Street”, a 100-day photography festival which each year transforms the historic downtown of Wilson, North Carolina, USA into a vibrant gallery. “Sixty Seconds » is about his relationship with his sitters when behind the scenes of blues clubs and many film festivals including Deauville, Montreal and at The Royal Belgium Film Archives in Brussels. Thanks to his personality and determination, he gained the confidence of famous artists worldwide using his portable canvas, soft light box and Yashica mat 6 X 6 camera. Always frank, never trying to flatter or to deceive, all his subjects agreed to play his balance of power game letting him create another image of themselves, unique, different, and free. Be surprised to see many faces you know well captured in a way you haven’t seen before.

Nicolas Lefebvre – Portraits Du Voyage -03 July > 30 July

« Portraits du voyage est une invitation à l’errance à travers les montagnes majestueuses de l’Himalaya, du désert du Sinaï ou de l’Irlande.

Transportées dans le refuge du silence sacré des montagnes,
les photographies de cette exposition capturent l’harmonie fragile entre les individus et la nature, et nous rappellent notre petitesse apparente face à l’immensité de l’univers. À pas manquer.

Emmanuel Beyens – Oil Paint – 20 July> 23 July

Emmanuel Beyens is a figurative painter established in Brussels. Son of a
Belgian ambassador and a nuclear engineer, nothing destined him for an artistic
career. This vocation, however, appeared obvious from his childhood. Indeed,
his first artistic experience dates back to his 12 years when he took for the first
time in his life a drawing course at the French high school in Rio de Janeiro. At
the end of the lesson, the teacher gave the students a homework : drawing a
self-portrait. Full of enthusiasm, he applied himself as best he could; for once
homework was fun! When the homework was returned by the teacher, all the
students had between 10/20 and 18/20, except Emmanuel Beyens. He had
received a 0/20! « But why? » he protested. « Because a boy your age couldn’t
have drawn that! It must have been an adult who did your portrait! » replied the
teacher. A few years later, he switched to painting when he found a box of
gouache in his parents’ attic. It was then that he undertook to paint his father’s
portrait. Seeing the result, one of his father’s collaborators will exclaim: « Your
son did not miss you! ». Since then, Emmanuel Beyens has never let go of his
brushes.
To train as a painter, he attended an academy in Brussels, then he perfected his
skills in figurative art by following the courses of the Master Classes of the
Vlamish Classical Atelier in Bruges and the Academy of Art in Florence.
Since 2006, Emmanuel Beyens has exhibited in Brussels, Paris and Barcelona
In 2011, he won the 1st Painting Prize at the Salon International du Portrait with
his painting « The Maharaja ».
EXHIBITIONS
April 2019: Art Nou Milleni Gallery , Barcelona.
March 2019: Barcelona Spring Art Show , Barcelona
November 2017: Balthasar , Brussels. (Personal exhibition)
October 2017: ANRB Artist Fair , Brussels
October 2016: Espronceda Center for Art and Culture , Barcelona. (Personal
exhibition)
March 2015: Art Shopping Woluwe , Brussels
December 2014: TAG Gallery Brussels . Exhibition « @Conversation » in
collaboration with Fabian Vogler and Savina Tarsitano, Brussels.
June 2014: Edelman Communication , Brussels
May 2014: Banque Montepaschi , Brussels. (Personal exhibition)
April 2011: International Portrait Fair , Château de Beauregard , Blois.
October 2010: Art Shopping Fair at the Carrousel du Louvre , Paris
June 2010: European Commission , Brussels. (Personal exhibition)
April 2004: La Ferme Rose , Brussels. (Personal exhibition)

Luc Peters – 03 July > 29 July

Luc Peters was born in 1950 in Roermond, Holland. His work is diverse, anachronic (antique and contemporary), composed of separate parts, of
strange settings, of encounters of different materials and sometimes of reused ones
elements. Wood, metal, stone, concrete and recycled materials are combined into 1
object. This creates images that seem unfinished, affected. Their faces and postures show one
sense of tragic human experience, but retain a mystical tender beauty through it
skillful use of different materials. vArchaeology, African art, classical antiquity, but also Baroque and Gothic elements are of
affect in his work.

Ukrainian Portraits, past and present 29 March > 29 July

A group exhibition of Ukrainian artists featuring works by Olexandr Bohomazov, cubo-futurist born 1880 near Kharliv and 9 contemporary artists, including the hyper realistic watercolourist, Ievgen Petrov born 1972 in Kherson. Portraits of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by Toon Teeken, Carlos Becerraand others will be displayed in our gallery and auctioned online worldwide during six weeks. We will donate 100% of the profit from the auction and 15% of the sales of all artworks sold during the exhibition to support UNHCR humanitarian relief and the Takshtab charity which directly supports internally displaced mothers and children under 3 in collaboration with the Tsekh Gallery in Kiev and the James Butterwick Gallery, London. James Butterwick has been collecting European and Ukrainian fine art since 1985. Fine art prints from his TEFAF 2022 collection of works by Oleksandr Bohomazov will also be for sale.