Ten Belgian Artists

 Berlinde De Bruyckere: Decomposing blankets, horsehides, timber – remnants of Eden.

 Marthe Donas: Abstract and Cubist and invisible – so it goes.

 Adele Renault: Phytophiliac for xerophytes, musaceae and poaceae.

 Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven: Reposition popular imagery to challenge objectification.

Constant Permeke: Greenstone, mudstone, sandstone , shale, earth colours.

James Ensor: Sacrificed to Moloch and the Canaanites, The Entry of Christ into Brussels.

 Thierry De Cordier : “God bestaat niet en toch zit hij in mij. Hoe absurd.”

 Panamarenko: Hardly probable visionary flying machines, Icarus or Daedalus?

 Françoise Taylor: Liège, Bolton, weavers’ ghosts, artists’ hands, “la plus grande distinction”.

 Jakob Smits: Achterbos, light and the inner life, poetic with Calvinist simplicity.

Sol LeWitt in Ireland

 The Bloggist and his friend, Alfred Jarry, come across a Sol LeWitt structure, a description he preferred to sculpture, in storage in Galway, Ireland. These elements combine to form a rectangle, a form he decided that was not as satisfactory as a cube. The structure was intended for exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2001 but was set aside by him as incompatible with the Wall Drawings he installed. Since his death in 2007 it has been undisturbed in it's present location.

At the Museum of 'Pataphysics

 A new exhibition of Invisible Objects opens at the Museum of 'Pataphysics. 

These items, rarely seen in public, are on loan from the Estate of Dr. Faustroll, 'Pataphysician. 

A Connemara

 

Walk through a legible remnant,
A repository of archaic knowledge,
A stratum of linguistic culture,
Inscriptions on monuments,
Fragments of statuary,
Chambered cairns inscribed with ciphers,
Orphaned and broken tomb pediments,
A text of gesture, line and ornament,
A great book ripped out by time
Written in moss and Ogham script
Saying care, closeness, protectiveness, affection.
Traveling in the rain and the sun,
Past famine grounds, sepulchres and silent walls,
A landscape strewn with memory.
See Sheela Na Gig in a green lichen,
Vegetation’s biotic motions
Breathing human passion in verdure.
Walk the Atlantic coastline,
Erosion, granite cliffs and bog pits,
Fragmentary, unfinished nature, utopian promise,
The murmur of history, of green ruins,
Bays, inlets, peninsulas, islands and headlands,
Millennia of decaying plant matter,
Waterlogged soil erasing field walls,
Passage, portal, court and wedge tombs
Announce I was here, I am here,
An intangible presence in granite,
Speech emanates from the stones.

Nostalgia