Jan Hoet & Phillip Van den Bossche De Zee Jewels of Light 25 oktober 2014 – 19 april 2015 Oostende Curatoren: Jan Hoet & Phillip Van den Bossche

Introductie

‘Jewels of Light’ Bron: William Blake (1757 – 1827), ‘To Thomas Butts’ Jacobs Ladder, of Jacobs Droom (detail): William Blake, illustratie in een bijbel, geschilderd voor Thomas Butts, c. 1799-1807 (British Museum)

To my friend Butts I write My first vision of light On the yellow sands sitting The sun was emitting His glorious beams From Heaven’s high streams Over sea, over land My eyes did expand Into regions of air Away from all care Into regions of fire Remotre from desire The light of the morning Heaven’s mountains adorning In particles bright The jewels of light Distinct shone and clear Amaz’d and in fear I each particle gazèd Astonish’d, amazèd For each was a Man Human-form’d. Swift I ran For they beckon’d to me Remote by the sea Saying: ‘Each grain of sand Every stone on the land Each rock and each hill Each fountain and rill Each herb and each tree Mountain, hill, earth and sea Cloud, meteor, and star Are men seen afar.’ I stood in the streams Of Heaven’s bright beams And saw Felpham sweet Beneath my bright feet In soft Female charms And in her fair arms My Shadow I knew And my wife’s Shadow too And my sister, and friend We like infants descend In our Shadows on earth Like a weak mortal birth My eyes, more and more Like a sea without shore Continue expanding The Heavens commanding Till the jewels of light Heavenly men beaming bright Appear’d as One Man Who complacent began My limbs to enfold In His Beams of bright gold Like dross purg’d away All my mire and my clay Soft consum’d in delight In His bosom sun-bright I remain’d. Soft He smil’d And I heard His voice mild Saying: ‘This is My fold O Thou ram horn’d with gold Who awakest from sleep On the sides of the deep On the mountains around The roaring resound Of the lion and wolf The loud sea, and deep gulf These are guards of My fold O Thou ram horn’d with gold!’ And the voice faded mild I remain’d as a child All I ever had known Before me bright shone I saw you and your wife By the fountains of life Such a vision to me Appear’d on the sea

Locaties

Locaties: 1. Mu.ZEE

Locaties: 1. Mu.ZEE Théo Van Rysselberghe, Baadsters, 1920 Mu.ZEE, Oostende

Locaties: 2. Venetiaanse Gaanderijen

Locaties: 2. Venetiaanse Gaanderijen Louis Artan de Saint-Martin, Marine, z.d. Mu.ZEE, Oostende

Locaties: 3. Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk

Locaties: 3. Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk Marcel Broodthaers, Grande casserole de moules, 1966 S.M.A.K., Gent

Locaties: 4. Ensorgalerij

Locaties: 4. Ensorgalerij David Claerbout, The Quiet Shore, 2011
29' 15" single channel video projection, black & white, silent

Locaties: 5. Fort Napoleon

Locaties: 5. Fort Napoleon Pino Pascali, Confluenze, 1967


Locaties: 6. Beau Site

Locaties: 6. Beau Site Victor Servranckx, Haven – Opus 2, 1926 Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent

Locaties: 6. Openbare ruimte

Locaties: 6. Openbare ruimte Daniel Buren, Le Vent souffle où il veut, 2009 Beaufort03, Strand De Haan


Thema’s

Thema’s: 1. Eb en vloed Gustave Courbet, La mer orageuse dit aussi La Vague, 1870 Musée d’Orsay, Parijs 


Thema’s: 1. Eb en vloed Lili Dujourie, Il fait dimanche sur la mer, 2009 Mu.ZEE, Oostende 


Thema’s: 2. Mens en zee Leon Spilliaert, De windstoot, 1904 Mu.ZEE, Oostende 


Thema’s: 2. Mens en zee James Ensor, Vrouw op golfbreker, 1880 Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen

Thema’s: 3. Strandgenoegens Jean Brusselmans, Strandzicht met baadsters, ca. 1935 Mu.ZEE, Oostende 


Thema’s: 3. Strandgenoegens Francis Picabia, Voiles, 1911 Privécollectie 


Thema’s: 4. Onder water Paul Klee, The Goldfish, 1925 Hamburger Kunsthalle 


Thema’s: 4. Onder water Patrick Jolley & Reynold Reynolds, The Drowning Room, 2000

Thema’s: 5. De visser Vincent Van Gogh, Visser, 1883 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Vincent Van Gogh, Vissersvrouw, 1883 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Thema’s: 5. De visser Jacob Maris, Bomschuit op het Scheveningse strand, 1880-99 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Thema’s: 6. De haven Paul Signac, Le port de Rotterdam, 1907 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Thema’s: 6. De haven Constant Permeke, De haven van Oostende, 1921 Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten Brussel

Thema’s: 7. Symboliek en metaforen Georgia O’Keeffe, Wave, Night, 1928 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover (MA, USA)

Thema’s: 7. Symboliek en metaforen Odilon Redon, Guardian Spirit of the Waters, 1878 The Art Institute, Chicago

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