Art Sanctuary's 'Enchanted Garden'
Opens its gates for the 4th season on June 27th 2014
MYTHS AND LEGENDS -
stories and tales -
This year’s exhibition invites the visitor on a
journey of myths and legends, mysteries and wonders; An avenue of cherry trees,
and apple trees with promises, winding trails, deep ponds and secret forest rooms, chapels and a labyrinth,
threads of destiny, goddesses and sleeping beauties…
This large and natural garden, situated just
near the ‘border’ between the French and the Flemish part of Belgium, hosts a
most special International art exhibition;
Art Inspired by, and in Dialogue With, Nature.
Art Inspired by, and in Dialogue With, Nature.
Twenty two artists from Belgium, Denmark,
France, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, and Ukraine, are represented
with works in glass, stone, metal, wood, and ceramics, land art, sound
installations and music.
To mention a few of the aspects of the
exhibition:
ü The strange and fantastical beings
of Aleksandr
Agafonov (Ukraine), surreal, at times carnivalesque, and always
beautiful, all seem to walk straight out of a myth or a fairy-tale.
('With Umbrella' - Aleksandr Agafonov Ukraine)
ü Gisèle De Rop (B), ‘Professional Dreamer’, shows
her recent dreams in ceramics; Every year Gisele makes a special installation for Art Sanctuary's 'Enchanted Garden' - always poignant and fascinating!
(Gisele De Rop - B)
ü Landscape architect Jean
de la Kethulle (B) returns this year with another ‘Eye-opning
experience’; the twenty large steles making a visual and rhythmical trail of
almost 300 meters is most certainly a ‘InTERREaction’
– showing the view… to end of the world…and beyond…the stars…?
ü Artist and poet Lebuïn d’Haese (B) ; his tattooed figures are both
funny and serious, sometimes beautiful, sometimes not – but always very
human ; and titles an important intergral part.
('Fly Away' - Lebuïn d’Haese -B)
ü Inspired by classical art, Roos
Mannaerts’ (NL) beautiful sculptures couldn’t be more fitting to this
year’s theme !
As is the ceramic work of Shirley Weiffenbach (NL).
('Lang Haar' - Roos Mannaerts - NL)
As is the ceramic work of Shirley Weiffenbach (NL).
ü Exquisite work in stone by Luk Luts (B), metal sculptures by Joshua
Pennings (NL), Giovanni Gelmi (B/I), and Romeo
Sr. Vangoethemd (B) are exciting, elegant, and powerful – all returning by
popular request, as are ‘The Snail man’, Roland Menten (B), and Will
Schropp (NL) with his beautiful wood sculptures.
(Luk Luts - B)
(Giovanni Gelmi - B)
(Joshua Pennings - NL)
ü Satirical and touchingly humorous, Michel Vranckx (B) certainly brings a smile. As does
playful hanging mobiles by Luc Leroy (B).
ü Glass has also this year a special
focus. Four artists work with glass in all different styles and techniques; Marcel Haccuria (B),
Maria Bemelmans (NL), Veerle
De Ridder (B), et Marie Biesmans (B).
ü Laura Frennet (B/F)’s special fondness for trees, both symbolically
and literally, is this year manifested in a most appropriate ‘woody’
visitor !
ü We are very pleased that british sculptor Walter Bailey (UK) will exhibit new
works this year. His magnificent ‘Sophia
– Woman and Cosmos’, the centre piece of the labyrinth last year, has
chosen a new and permanent residence in the garden.
('Celestial Menhir' - Walter Baily - UK)
ü In addition to her paintings, Tone Aanderaa’s (N/B) main work this
year is an installation titled ‘Threads of Norns’, a ‘room of threads’ in the
forest – in addition to several other
installations. (She is also the organiser and curator of the exhibition).
('Run - run - run' - Tone Aanderaa N/B)
ü Finally, the music of composer/performer Nicky Bendix (DK), especially made for
the exhibition, adds a very special
dimension, experienced as sound installations in different parts of the
garden/exhibition.
Nicky Bendix will be releasing
2 Special Editions CD's this year!
Date: June 27th!
“without
images [...]
there is no
mythology"
(Joseph
Campbell)
