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German painter Neo Rauch gestures in front of his painting <EM>Uhrenvergleich (Synchronize Watches</EM>) in the Museum of Fine Arts in LeipzigPhoto: Jens Meyer

German painter Neo Rauch gestures in front of his painting Uhrenvergleich (Synchronize Watches) in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig
Photo: Jens Meyer

Neo Rauch: The Obsession of the Demiurge. Selected Works 1993 - 2012
BRUSSELS • Palais des Beaux-Arts • 20 February - 19 May 2013

Neo Rauch (b. 1960 in Leipzig), educated at the Leipzig Academy by the old school of Social Realist painters, has become one of the Academy’s most influential graduates. His fusion of industrial symbolism, painterly figuration, and unique brand of Neo-Romanticism are influenced in part by his exposure to Communist-era advertising in former East Germany.

His unmistakable work has transported the history of figurative painting in the 20th century - that found its chief proponents in Beckmann, Bacon and Baselitz - into the present.

His dreamlike compositions seem to be peopled by memories of the GDR. “My paintings have something vital about them, like an animal, a living thing,” says Rauch. “You don’t have to understand them, just to feel that this creation, to the greatest possible extent, is at peace with itself.”

Palais des Beaux-Arts Website

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Palais des Beaux-Arts
Rue Royale
Brussels

Tel: (32) 2 507 82 00

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Events in Classical Music

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra : Martin Helmchen, piano
BRUSSELS • Salle Henry Le Boeuf • 7 June 2013

Wagner: Ouvertüre (Der fliegende Holländer)
Mozart: Concerto for piano No. 22, KV 482
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, op. 92

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Martin Helmchen, piano

Palais des Beaux-Arts Website

Detailed schedule information:
20h

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Salle Henry Le Boeuf
Rue Ravenstein
Brussels

Tel: (32) 2 507 82 00

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Les Agrémens : Une soirée au Concert spirituel
BRUSSELS • Royal Brussels Conservatory • 21 May 2013

Les Agrémens take the listener on a voyage to 18th-century Paris for a concert in the Palais des Tuileries. Their programme reflects the concerts organised between 1725 and 1791 by Le Concert Spirituel, one of the first public concert series ever. In addition to French composers such as François-Joseph Gossec, who ran the organisation for a time, the concerts featured big names from abroad such as Joseph Haydn and Karel Stamic.

André-Modeste Grétry: Symphony in D
Joseph Haydn: Symphony, Hob. I:84, Symphonie, Hob.I:85, "The Queen"
Johann Christoph Vogel: Concerto for clarinet and orchestra in B flat major
François-Joseph Gossec: Symphony in F major, op. VIII n° 2, RH. 31

Guy Van Waas, conductor
Erich Hoeprich, clarinet
Les Agrémens

Palais des Beaux-Arts Website

Detailed schedule information:
20h

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Royal Brussels Conservatory
Brussels
Tel: (32) 2 507 82 00

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Rolf Lislevand, theorbo, baroque guitar BRUSSELS • Protestant Chapel • 23 May 2013
Works by Robert de Visée, Angelo Michele Bartolotti Rolf Lislevand, theorbo, baroque guitar Palais des Beaux-Arts Website Detailed schedule information: 20h

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Protestant Chapel
Brussels
Tel: (32) 2 507 82 00

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Events in Opera

The Tragedy of a Friendship, a hommage to Richard Wagner : By Jan Fabre
ANTWERP • Concert Hall Flanders Opera • 15 - 24 May 2013

Jan Fabre: The Tragedy of a Friendship, a hommage to Richard Wagner

Music performance: Vlaamse Opera
Concept: Jan Fabre
Directed by Jan Fabre
Stage design: Jan Fabre
Dramaturgy: Luc Joosten
Company: Troubleyn

What begins as an idyll ends up as a hell: the friendship between Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Wagner. It is only after Wagner's death that Nietzsche launches his vitriolic indictment of him.

Nietzsche and Wagner as alter egos, art somewhere between thinking and dreaming. In the hands of writer Stefan Hertmans, composer Moritz Eggert and theatre-maker Jan Fabre, 'The Tragedy of a Friendship' develops into a new opera. A homage to Wagner.

Flanders Opera Website

Please click here for a Culturekiosque exhibition review of Exhibition Review: Jan Fabre: The Years of The Hour Blue in Vienna.

Detailed schedule information:
20h

Contact:

deSingel
Desguinlei 25
B-2018 Antwerp

Tel: (32) 3 248 28 28

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