February 18 sees the get started of the next section of the EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS pageant with the flagship exhibition, Rinus Van de Velde: Internal Travels. For the initial time, Van de Velde’s get the job done will be demonstrated in all its range and put in dialogue with will work by his fictitious travelling companions, including Pierre Bonnard, Monster Chetwynd, Joan Mitchell, Claude Monet, Laure Prouvost, Henri Rousseau, Josephine Troller, Laurie Simmons and Jean Tinguely. The exhibition is a dive into Van de Velde’s exercise, culminating in the premiere of his new film, La Ruta All-natural.
The teach is a symbol of vacation: from the day-to-day journey of commuters to legendary and imaginary journeys. EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS celebrates all these kinds of travel. The get the job done of Rinus Van de Velde (Leuven, 1983)—who often works by using the coach as a motif—stems from imaginary, interior journeys that the artist undertakes day by day in the privateness of his studio. Through these journeys, Van de Velde meets quite a few other artists, and from these encounters, episodes of his fictional autobiography emerge, forming the widespread thread running by means of his get the job done.
Based on these imaginary journeys and encounters, the artist produces his have microcosms or miniature worlds, which he elaborates in charcoal or pastel drawings, ceramics, installations, images or films. For the to start with time, this multitude of media will be offered jointly in one large exhibition.
The exhibition is even further enriched by a sequence of talks and a overall performance programme in which Dolores and Charlotte Bouckaert, Monster Chetwynd, Rita Hoofwijk, Gaëtan Rusquet and Damien Petitot current a broader viewpoint on the themes of travel and encounters.
A production by EUROPALIA Arts Competition.
Curators

Rinus Van de Velde

Julie Verheye (Exhibition Coordinator, EUROPALIA)

Dirk Vermaelen (Inventive Director EUROPALIA)
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EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS

Oct 14, 2021–May 15, 2022

This yr, EUROPALIA dedicates an edition to an creation that formed modern society and appears to be taking part in a foremost purpose again currently: the teach. Till May well 15, 2022, EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS presents more than 70 diverse projects—mostly new creations and residencies—spread across inventive establishments but also, and in particular, to be found out in stations and on trains, in Belgium and in neighbouring nations around the world. EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS examines the community house of the station and those people passing via it and engages with a broad audience—casual passers-by, commuters, tourists, art lovers and several additional. The multidisciplinary programme commences with the impact of the practice on culture, which was huge when the train was invented, and which would seem to be growing larger and more substantial again nowadays. Originally a image of the acceleration of society, the coach now stands for slowing down. In addition, the competition focuses on the themes of time, movement, conferences and farewells and seems at each the train’s intriguing previous and foreseeable future and its rising purpose in sustainable vacation.
About EUROPALIA

Every single two many years, EUROPALIA compiles a various artistic programme concentrating on a nation or a theme. For four months, in Belgium and its neighbouring countries, EUROPALIA, in collaboration with a huge network of cultural associates, provides a biennial with a myriad of creative and socio-cultural projects that carry alongside one another visual arts, carrying out arts, movie, songs, literature and debate so as to encourage an trade of strategies. Recently commissioned tasks and creative residencies hold a central spot in the programme that engenders a distinctive interaction among heritage and artwork.
