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At the invitation of the museum, a group of contemporary artists enter into dialogue with the Roger Raveel, his works and his museum, the village and the many stories involved. The artists, none of whom are exclusively focussed on the medium of painting, create a new work for this occasion.
Characteristic of Roger Raveel’s work is the merging of art with life. Raveel leads the artwork into reality. At the same time, the world around us and the viewer are immersed in his art. That is the aim of the New Vision, which had a breakthrough in Belgium and the Netherlands from the mid-1960s onwards. Raveel realizes that art can play a significant role in society. In 1971, his poetic intervention The Swans of Bruges leads unintentionally but quite rightly to the cleansing of the Bruges canals. In the same year, Raveel creates a raft onto which a painting is mounted. The artwork is towed from the old tributary of the Leie in Machelen to Deinze. Once again, the power of...More
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At the invitation of the museum, a group of contemporary artists enter into dialogue with the Roger Raveel, his works and his museum, the village and the many stories involved. The artists, none of whom are exclusively focussed on the medium of painting, create a new work for this occasion.
Characteristic of Roger Raveel’s work is the merging of art with life. Raveel leads the artwork into reality. At the same time, the world around us and the viewer are immersed in his art. That is the aim of the New Vision, which had a breakthrough in Belgium and the Netherlands from the mid-1960s onwards. Raveel realizes that art can play a significant role in society. In 1971, his poetic intervention The Swans of Bruges leads unintentionally but quite rightly to the cleansing of the Bruges canals. In the same year, Raveel creates a raft onto which a painting is mounted. The artwork is towed from the old tributary of the Leie in Machelen to Deinze. Once again, the power of...More