Opening of three exhibitions
The Roger Raveel Museum invites you to the opening of three new exhibitions: MONOS, Emptiness around me and 25 years Roger Raveel Museum will open together on November 3.
The three exhibitions can be visited continuously from 11am to 5pm. The festivities will start at 11.30 am with speeches by Maarten Liefooghe (curator MONOS), Carolien Coenen (head of the Department of Culture) and Melanie Deboutte (director Roger Raveel Museum).
MONOS. Artist Museums: Shrines and Reflections is an exhibition in the rectory wing of the Roger Raveel Museum that examines the architecture of the monographic museum. Using interesting examples from Belgium and its neighbouring countries, it shows the particular and the typical of their buildings and their histories. Works of art, architectural drawings and models, historical photographs, publications and other documents are brought together by curator Maarten Liefooghe in fascinating theme rooms. Photographer Caroline Vincart worked alongside the curator for several months. She created photo ensembles for MONOS after a series of museum visits, haptic evocations as punctuations in the exhibition.
In 25 years Roger Raveel Museum the museum looks back on the past 25 years through photos, archive material, an overview of exhibitions and highlights, and video interviews with honorary curators Roland Jooris and Piet Coessens, among others. Special attention is also paid to the architecture, a design by Stéphane Beel, and the building history of the Roger Raveel Museum.
Emptiness around me runs from October 13, but will also be festively inaugurated on November 3. This exhibition focuses on a number of curious, often underexposed motifs in Roger Raveel's oeuvre. One of these concerns the boundaries and scale of the painting, and the way the image relates to the space in which it is displayed. Not infrequently, Raveel plays with those specific dimensions: he opens or breaks the image with windows, vistas, large colour zones and white squares. The painting expands into its surroundings. How to understand this spatiality, Raveel leaves to the viewer. Is it a kind of emptiness? Or an ‘absence’ of matter, a portal between the viewer and the painter? A walk past rarely shown works lets visitors reflect on this.