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Off-Comics
Historical epics, chronicles of everyday life, real or imagined personal trauma…: Off-Comics zooms in on a unique history of comics, where words and images come together in works that flout convention. Heroes such as Tintin, Captain America or Tex Willer pop up in personal fantasy worlds and new protagonists are brought to life. The works in the exhibition have been created outside the traditional art circuit or distribution channels for comics. While their makers have absorbed the imagery and codes of the ninth art, they have reworked them, incorporating them into their own unique imagination and visual language. Like many contemporary comics artists, they also devise new and surprising thematic, narrative, and aesthetic resources. The exhibition showcases exceptional work from renowned museums such as the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, as well as from national and international art studios and private collections. Words and images are combined in unconventional ways for a refreshing immersion into this other world of comics.
Featuring work by
Sarah Albert, Denis Boudouard, Luigi Brunetti, Wouter Coumou, Hein Dingemans, Karel Frans Drenthe, Johann Fischer, Alfons Frenkl, Giga, Michael Golz, Tomoyuki Hirano, Vojislav Jakić, Frank Johnson, Daniel Johnston, Jim Kaliski, Johann Korec, Katsutoshi Kuroda, Gérard Lattier, Jean Leclercq, Pascal Leyder, Jean-Jacques Liabeuf, Andreas Maus, Norbert Moutier, Yuichi Nishida, Marilena Pelosi, Aldo Piromalli, Luciana Rossi, Gustav Sievers, Kanako Tayu, Dominique Théate, Alfred Trouvé, Oskar Voll en Clemens Wild.
Curator: Erwin Dejasse
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With the support of:
Untitled
Nothing is as it seems at the Dr. Guislain Museum. Neither the buildings, people, histories, nor arts allow you to pass judgment on the truth. The new exhibition Untitled adds new elements to these illusions. It reaches out to the voiceless, the invisible, and the anonymous artists.
Today identity is a central theme in political and social debates. In search of their role in society, museums also question themselves. They are transforming into creative breeding grounds where different interest groups are given a forum. But what about the voiceless? The unknown artists with oeuvres without context?
While classical art museums use categories, schools, and art movements to grasp the artistic reality, Untitled plays the game without all those rules.
Dr. Guislain Museum serves up the tried-and-true recipe of Fine Arts and Contemporary Art. A chronology of icons, historical works, religious scenes, and fascinating still lifes are awaiting. But nothing is what it seems. The division is a product of imagination, simply to underscore the unnatural division between players and outsiders.
Artists without an audience or network are outside the classic role-playing, but Dr. Guislain Museum captures the void within its walls. The fact that most works are untitled and/or their creators remain unknown does not mean they lack meaning. If art is supposed to speak for itself, and the life of an artist is of no importance in finding meaning in a work, then Untitled is an invitation to assess the value of these works for yourselves.
Let yourself be guided by the confusion inherent in this magical place where every prejudice dissolves into nothingness.
SAFE(R) SPACE
During the Easter holidays of 2023 young people Miel Vandenberghe, Luna D’Angelo & Elise Van Hummelen came together at the Museum Dr. Guislain under the guidance of Maria Luiza Grymonprez and Inke Gieghase.
Here they created their own safe space from which they could tell their story and bring their work to life. Through the exhibition young people give the visitors the opportunity to enter their safe ( r ) space.
“From our sexuality and gender experience we want to tell a story that remains true to our core. Because safety, empowerment and liberation are not optional. They are a necessity.”
Programme vernissage Sunday 25 June 2023 (14h-17h) 💜
14h-15h30 & 15h30-17h (2-10 years): creative workshops
Studio Sesam
14h - 15h30: slampoetry & debate (14+)
Monologue Jaouad Alloul
Slampoetry by Miel Vandenberghe, Luna D’Angelo & Elise Van Hummelen
Debate Safe ( r ) Space: “What do you need to be yourself?”
The young people debate with moderators Joppe De Campeneere & Madonna Lenaert (podcast Flikker op)
15h30-17h: reception
Non-stop: visit exhibit Safe ( r ) Space & court yard
Family route (exhibit Safe ( r ) Space)
Children’s animation
Free access – everybody is welcome! 💜
Registration here.
A collaboration between TRILL vzw, Gezinsbond & Museum Dr. Guislain.
This project came about with the support of the Flemish Government.
iArts
Fashion, as a cultural phenomenon is more than societal convention. Through one’s clothes and garments one can show the world an image of who one is, and how one wants to be perceived. As such, clothes have a deep symbolical meaning. Specifically, in the interspace between daily society and mad reality, they can help express our identity, form a second skin that protects us for the gaze of others, and at the same time communicate our deepest sense of self.
Over the past months, the first-year students of Maastricht Academy of Arts Interdisciplinary Arts Programme researched the topic of ‘Mirror Mirror’ for their exhibition ‘Veiled Wardrobe’, (un)dressing body and mind. They studied the exhibitions at Museum Dr. Guislain as well as Liège’s Trinkhall Museum to uncover different approaches to the topic of madness and fashion. The overarching topic of their reflective talks was the de-stigmatisation of people with mental illnesses. The surrealist movement posed as the catalyst of their exploration of the topic and tickled their imagination. Following this interdisciplinary approach, their ideas and concepts culminated in a collection of artistic transdisciplinary visual works.
21-04-2023 at 16:00-20:00 opening with performance