Het Italiaans futurisme (1909-1916) is een beweging, die de dynamiek van de moderne samenleving omarmde. Het verheerlijkt lawaai, beweging, snelheid, techniek, oorlog en dynamiek. Het ideal…
Esse est percipi?
According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), material things do not exist until they have been observed.
Does a rainbow exist if there is no human, animal or camera to perceive it?
Does a place exist if it has never been archived or documented?
Probably... But I still err on the side of caution.
The concrete playground
In October 1973, in 2023 exactly 50 years ago, CC Westrand opened its doors. In honor of the anniversary, the Westrand 2023 Task force asked me to make 3 illustrations of the concrete playg…
Laten we het maanlicht doden!
Uccidiamo il Chiaro di Luna!
Laten we het maanlicht doden!
Let's murder the moonlight!
Futurist manifesto by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1909)
In december 1993, dur…
Mouvements de pensée
Art catalogue design, illustrations and cover image for the exhibition “Mouvements de pensée" of Belgian architecture-artist Koen Deprez at the Negenpuntnegen gallery in Roeselare (Belgium)…
Atoomwijk
For the heritage days (Open Monumentendag 2022), I was asked to develop the graphic campaign for the "Atoomwijk" in Mol, Belgium. The "Atoomwijk" (Atomic village) is a residential area loca…
Koen Deprez
For four years, architecture-artist Koen Deprez (1961) has worked on his PhD dissertation. The problem statement was the oeuvre itself, entitled: Apology for the flight, narrative technique…
Danger de mort / Levensgevaar
My first series of photos that I made for my dissertation in interior architecture at the Sint-Lukas Institute was indebted to the typologies of Bernd und Hilla Becher. Starting from a part…
The unmemorable place
Het idee voor ‘The unmemorable place’ vindt zijn oorsprong in de tentoonstelling ‘Recollecting Landscapes‘ (S.M.A.K.- Ugent) en het werk van de Belgische Magnum-fotograaf John Vink (°1948).…
The Strange Collection
(Franco-Belgian) comics are an integral part of Belgian culture. Like every child in Belgium, I grew up with the adventures of these comic book heroes and they have never leave me since. Th…
The Weverbergh House
'The Weverbergh house is one of the single-family houses Willy Van Der Meeren built after the World Fair of 1958, each different from the others, but all with equally original syntheses of …
CC Westrand
‘Westrand’ at Dilbeek, close to Brussels was designed by Alfons Hoppenbrouwers in 1973 as a concrete building, inspired by the brutalist philosophy and architecture of Le Corbusier. In the …
Eylenbosch
Brasserie Eylenbosch was founded in 1894 in Schepdaal (Dilbeek) by Emile Eylenbosch, who was also the town mayor. It has been a brewery site until 1989. Eylenbosch was known for his Gueuze …
Quartier Maritime 2001
The "Quartier Maritime" is a neighbourhood in Brussels that was formerly the old port of Brussels, which played for a long time the role of belly of the city. From the Brussels–Scheldt Mari…
Nga !
'Nga! nyama inso baitungela mangongi na mangongi; weneke oke o lingongi mpinu okoki lene nyama njiki njiki, mpe baitungela mandaku na mandaku,ekabela lojata o libanda, nde punda wobele.' (f…
Shift
In October 1971, when I was about 8 months old, my parents took my grandparents out for a trip to the Tommenmolen, a 16th century watermill on the Maelbeek in Grimbergen, Belgium. It was a …
Grimm
Myths and fairy tales are a phantasmagorical form of transmission of word but as well of images. This makes them very interesting study cases. Where is the origin of these grotesque tales? …
Caere, un giorno alla necropoli
The Etruscan Necropolis of the Banditaccia extends over a distance of about 10 km. The necropolis contains four hundred burial sites over a period spanning from the 8th to the 2nd centuries…
io
One day, Zeus noticed Io, and he lusted after her. Some say she rejected his advances until he caused her own father to drive her out into the fields. Here, Zeus covered her with clouds to …
4x5
In 2007, I was asked to make a photograph of a close group of friends. No theme was imposed. I received carte blanche in the scenography and concept. The idea of standing in the water was a…