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Behind the scenes Frieke Janssens

The striking portraits in this portrayed. The ostrich feathers brochure were taken by the in Herr Seele’s portrait epitomise Belgian photographer Frieke exoticism and lavish excess. Janssens. “Baroque suits me, it Yvon Tordoir also paints skulls suits my photographic style.” in his street art but a skull also Janssens mainly studied the embodies power, fearlessness and self-portraits of Rubens and the rebelliousness. The soap bubbles in portrait of his wife, Isabella Brant. the portrait of the musician Pieter “I refer to the pose, the attributes, Theuns symbolise the “ephemeral” that same atmosphere in my while the peacock represents photos. People often associate pride and vanity. I thought this Baroque with exuberance and was a perfect element for Stef excess, whereas my portraits are Aerts and Damiaan De Schrijver, almost austere. Chiaroscuro is a who work in the theatre. I chose typically Baroque effect though. herring, the most popular ocean I use natural daylight, which fish in the sixteenth century for makes my photos look almost like the ladies of Alle Dagen Honger. paintings.” I wanted to highlight the female “I also wanted the portraits power of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven to have a contemporary feel. So with the cat. Cats symbolise no Baroque costumes, lace collars intelligence, fertility, female anger or shades of brown. I did infuse and independence. I purposefully the portraits with additional chose a more austere setting for symbolism, as is typical in the Luc Tuymans.” portraits of Rubens’s era.” “I tried to find a matching attribute for every person I Paul Kooiker The cover photo was taken by the Dutch photographer Paul Kooiker. See more of his surprising nudes at the FOMU. expo Paul Kooiker 71

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Elsewhere in this programme brochure, Art that sparks, and sizzles and that casts the artist Luc Tuymans expresses his a (heart-)warming glow. amazement that there is no major retrospective of Rubens’ work during ‘Antwerp Rubens is everywhere in this festival. Baroque 2018. Rubens inspires’. He Antwerp’s most famous resident. The immediately added that “one interest- man who left for Italy and returned with ing way of highlighting Rubens’ work an entirely new formal language: violent, would be not to put him too much in the realistic, exuberant, full of emotions spotlight, focusing on the environment and movement, dynamic. The man who instead. Creating a present absence.” He succeeded in putting the city on the map finds this a rather exciting idea. Behindand inspired the a whole scenes new form of joie de Friekevivre Janssens in Antwerp. And four hundred years

And what an exciting festival this prom- Thelater, striking his portraits work in continues this to portrayed.be inspiring. The ostrich feathers ises to be. brochure were taken by the in Herr Seele’s portrait epitomise BelgianSomething photographer that Frieke is apparent exoticismin this pro and -lavish excess. For ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018. Rubens Janssens.gramme “Baroque brochure. suits me, it Yvon Tordoir also paints skulls inspires’, Antwerp has developed a suits my photographic style.” in his street art but a skull also Janssens mainly studied the embodies power, fearlessness and multi-faceted programme with plenty of self-portraitsIt includes of Rubens the entire and the programme rebelliousness. as The soap bubbles in bold choices, which confronts the old and portraitwell of as his testimonials wife, Isabella Brant. by artists the about portrait the of the musician Pieter the new Baroque. The historic Baroque “I referBaroqueness to the pose, the of attributes,their work andTheuns the symbolise mas- the “ephemeral” engages in a dialogue with contemporary thatter’s same influence. atmosphere in my while the peacock represents masters, allowing you to discover sur- photos. People often associate pride and vanity. I thought this Baroque with exuberance and was a perfect element for Stef prising similarities between the past and ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018. Rubens inspires’ excess, whereas my portraits are Aerts and Damiaan De Schrijver, present. almostoffers austere. a unique Chiaroscuro take is aon Antwerp.who work Elegant in the theatre. I chose typicallyand Baroquea diamond effect in though. the rough, herring, historic the mostand popular ocean You will see how Antwerp has been a I usecontemporary, natural daylight, whicha pocket-sized fish metropolis. in the sixteenth century for magnet for centuries, attracting people makes my photos look almost like the ladies of Alle Dagen Honger. paintings.” I wanted to highlight the female from around the world, who want to be So set aside any qualms you have and “I also wanted the portraits power of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven here, to experience beauty and create art. to havethrow a contemporary yourself into feel. thisSo fierywith festival the cat. Cats symbolise no Baroquewith gusto. costumes, Face lace the collars future withintelligence, a much fertility, female anger or shadesbroader of brown. and inspiredI did infuse view. and independence. I purposefully the portraits with additional chose a more austere setting for symbolism, as is typical in the Luc Tuymans.” Caroline Bastiaens portraits of Rubens’s era.” Alderm“I tried to findAn fora matching Culture attribute for every person I

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The MasTer Lives 08 Baroque shock 16 Discover Rubens’ correspondence When modern masters follow in with Herr Seele. Admire the work the footsteps of old masters. Luc of Rubens and his contemporaries Tuymans and Jan Fabre on the in Antwerp’s churches. subject of old and new Baroque.

Baroque MysTerious in open air 22 MichaeLina 30 Bump into Baroque murals in Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven tries to the city, discover the punk iden- understand how a talented artist like tity of Baroque, be misled in the Michaelina almost disappeared into Middelheim Museum park and fol- the annals of art history. low William Forsythe’s instructions.

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The MasTer Lives 08 Baroque shock 16 Baroque for foodies 36 ruBens is a dj 42 Discover Rubens’ correspondence When modern masters follow in These mouth-watering still lifes Why fans of pop music love with Herr Seele. Admire the work the footsteps of old masters. Luc will also inspire you to cook with Baroque music and vice versa. of Rubens and his contemporaries Tuymans and Jan Fabre on the Baroque ingredients. A playlist so you can find out for in Antwerp’s churches. subject of old and new Baroque. yourself. And some spectacular Baroque instruments on which you can feast your eyes.

But there is more…

The ABC of the Baroque

A crash course with 26 letters 4

Baroque talk Interesting figures about ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018’ 54 Baroque MysTerious The arTisT’s sTudio 22 30 48 Programme in open air MichaeLina From the mind to the stage. Stef Bump into Baroque murals in Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven tries to Aerts and Damiaan De Schrijver Mix and match your festival calendar 62 the city, discover the punk iden- understand how a talented artist like discuss artistic creation. And tity of Baroque, be misled in the Michaelina almost disappeared into a glimpse behind the scenes of Middelheim Museum park and fol- the annals of art history. Rubens’ workshop. Antwerp craftsmen 104 low William Forsythe’s instructions.

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 2 7/05/18 17:44 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 3 7/05/18 17:44 the AbC of THE BAROQUE WHo, WHAt, WHe Re, WHen An D Ho W? An introduction to the Baroque in 26 letters and just as many illuminated initials.

BAcH The name of the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach always seems to pop up in any top three of the greatest composers of all time. And many consider that the Baroque ended with his death in 1750.

cHiArOscUrO ANTHONY VAN DYck Light and shadow in Italian. Like a key light, A teenage prodigy who appren- which follows an actor on stage, painters ticed with Rubens. Joined the decided to highlight the most important master’s workshop at the age of subjects on their canvas. The Italian painter seventeen and went on to become Caravaggio was the undisputed genius of the court painter of King Charles I chiaroscuro. Rubens was introduced to his of England. work in Italy and was heavily influenced by it.

DrAmA Seduction and passion, blood and violence. Exuberant nudes, glistening bulging muscles, grand gestures. Baroque in a nutshell. And what a huge contrast with the harmony and serenity of the Renaissance.

FrANs sNijDers emOTiON An Antwerp painter, who special- The Baroque captures raw emotions. As a ised in hunting scenes, animals spectator, you burst onto the scene, into the and still lifes. The fish seem to action. You catch Holofernes’ final death slither off the canvas, the birds rattle, hear the women lament as the Cross about to fly around your head. is raised and feel like laughing along with And the fruit still looks as fresh the regulars in the pub. as it was 400 years ago when he painted it.

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 4 7/05/18 17:44 HeNDrik cONscieNcepLeiN Traditionally associated with St. Charles the of Borromeo Church. The Jesuits turned to Rubens AbC when they decided to build a church in this square. He helped design the façade and created 39 ceiling paintings for the church. THE BAROQUE Unfortunately they were destroyed in a fire. WHo, WHAt, WHe Re, WHen An D Ho W? An introduction to the GOD Baroque in 26 letters and just as many illuminated initials. No Baroque without God. After the isABeLLA BrANT Reformation, catholic faith expe- Rubens’ first wife, whom the painted called «an rienced a revival in the Southern excellent companion». The couple had three BAcH Netherlands, which is apparent children. Isabella was 34 years old when she The name of the German composer Johann in the art produced there. Thanks died of the plague. Rubens married the much Sebastian Bach always seems to pop up in to the Jesuits, Jesus no longer younger Helena Fourment, four years after any top three of the greatest composers was the most important figure, Isabella’s death. of all time. And many consider that the but the Virgin Mary, especially in Baroque ended with his death in 1750. Antwerp. In Antwerp, Mother’s Day is still celebrated on 15 August, the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. cHiArOscUrO ANTHONY VAN DYck Light and shadow in Italian. Like a key light, A teenage prodigy who appren- which follows an actor on stage, painters ticed with Rubens. Joined the decided to highlight the most important master’s workshop at the age of subjects on their canvas. The Italian painter seventeen and went on to become Caravaggio was the undisputed genius of the court painter of King Charles I chiaroscuro. Rubens was introduced to his of England. work in Italy and was heavily influenced by it.

LUxUrY When it came to glorifying the DrAmA kUNsTkAmmer Catholic Church, no expense Seduction and passion, blood and violence. jAcOB jOrDAeNs A seventeenth-century Antwerp was spared. Artists used Exuberant nudes, glistening bulging mus- Formed the Antwerp School, along genre. These paintings of art expensive materials and the cles, grand gestures. Baroque in a nutshell. with van Dyck and Rubens. Jordaens rooms depict interiors that are paintings of this era feature And what a huge contrast with the harmony painted several popular scenes for packed to the rafters with art lavish fabrics, exotic creatures and serenity of the Renaissance. his wealthy patrons, such as ‘The and discoveries from the new and magnificent banquets. bagpipe player’, which you can find world, including exotic birds, in the Rubens House. The Spike & fruit and vegetables. You can Suzy comic strip album ‘The King marvel at ‘The Gallery of Cornelis FrANs sNijDers Drinks’ was inspired by Jordaens’s van der Geest’ at the Rubens emOTiON An Antwerp painter, who special- eponymous work. House. The Baroque captures raw emotions. As a ised in hunting scenes, animals spectator, you burst onto the scene, into the and still lifes. The fish seem to action. You catch Holofernes’ final death slither off the canvas, the birds mDcxViii rattle, hear the women lament as the Cross about to fly around your head. Or 1618, the year in which work commenced on St. Augustine’s Church. is raised and feel like laughing along with And the fruit still looks as fresh The church in Kammenstraat was Antwerp’s first Baroque church. the regulars in the pub. as it was 400 years ago when he Nowadays you can enjoy ancient and new classical music concerts here in painted it. a surprising setting.

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 4 7/05/18 17:44 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 5 7/05/18 17:44 OTTO VAN VeeN A genius like Rubens also had to learn the tricks of the trade somewhere. He apprenticed with Otto Van Veen, who was employed by the Duke of Parma and the Archdukes Albert and Isabella as a court painter. You can still find his house in Otto Veniusstraat. NicOLAAs rOckOx Elected mayor of Antwerp nine times, an art collector, the neigh- peArL bour of Frans Snijders and one of The word Baroque was inspired by the Rubens’ patrons. He commissioned Italian barroco, which refers to a pearl with ‘The Descent from the Cross’ and an irregular, non-spherical shape. Possibly ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ from the best word to sum up this art movement. Rubens. The Baroque lasted from about 1600 to 1750.

QUAsi-AUTHeNTic The Rubens House is one of the most famous artist’s residences in the world. This is where Rubens lived with his wife and children. Where he painted. Where he died. You can still sense the master’s presence in the house, even though some parts of it are no longer original. The portico and the garden pavilion are 100% authentic however and will be restored.

sYmBOLism Baroque paintings are simply teeming with symbols that help rUBeNs the spectator better understand In effect, this alphabet should begin with “R”. The the underlying message. A “R” of Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640), the man who dog was an allegory of marital singlehandedly put Antwerp on the map. The man fidelity, a cat was a harbinger who left for Italy and returned with a whole new of misconduct. John the Baptist visual language: energetic, realistic, exuberant, always wears a red cloak and teeming with emotions and movement. The man an oyster was already regarded who still continues to inspire so many others as a symbol of lust and passion today. even then.

TrOmpe-L’OeiL I see something that’s not there! A painted pillar suddenly resem- bles a real pillar thanks to an ingenious use of technique. A false image, a real image. Perhaps this is an optical illusion. Baroque masters applied the technique in their paintings, and in the landscape.

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 6 7/05/18 17:44 VANiTAs OTTO VAN VeeN Heaven is the place to be, all life on A genius like Rubens also had to learn earth is transient. A skull, a clock, old the tricks of the trade somewhere. He books, music instruments and soap apprenticed with Otto Van Veen, who was bubbles all symbolise vanitas or the employed by the Duke of Parma and the brevity of our life on earth. Archdukes Albert and Isabella as a court painter. You can still find his house in Otto Veniusstraat. UNiVersAL NicOLAAs rOckOx Experts regard the Baroque as the first Elected mayor of Antwerp nine universal style in the history of art. times, an art collector, the neigh- peArL WApper Baroque however encompasses so bour of Frans Snijders and one of The word Baroque was inspired by the In 1610, Rubens and his first wife Isabella much more than the exuberant style, Rubens’ patrons. He commissioned Italian barroco, which refers to a pearl with Brant bought a house along Wapper, a which the Catholic Church employed to ‘The Descent from the Cross’ and an irregular, non-spherical shape. Possibly side street of Meir. Rubens wanted to move the faithful in the Low Countries. ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ from the best word to sum up this art movement. renovate and expand the house, creating Baroque fanned out across the world Rubens. The Baroque lasted from about 1600 to 1750. a new design for the house himself. in the seventeenth century. Fantastic, Nowadays their Palace by the Scheldt is new variants of this style were created one of the world’s most famous artists’ from Latin America and Africa to India homes. and even Indonesia. QUAsi-AUTHeNTic The Rubens House is one of the most famous artist’s residences in the world. This is where x-rAYs Rubens lived with his wife and children. Where X-rays are instrumental in the research, restoration and he painted. Where he died. You can still sense the conservation of artworks. The restorers of Rubens’ self-por- master’s presence in the house, even though some trait for example discovered that Rubens’ original painter parts of it are no longer original. The portico and layer is covered by up to 11 additional, non-original layers the garden pavilion are 100% authentic however of paint in some places. And that his self-portrait was oval and will be restored. instead of rectangular at one point. sYmBOLism Baroque paintings are simply teeming with symbols that help Yes! rUBeNs the spectator better understand Antwerpers embrace life wholeheartedly. In that sense, In effect, this alphabet should begin with “R”. The the underlying message. A things haven’t changed that much since Rubens’ time. ZeiTGeisT “R” of Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640), the man who dog was an allegory of marital You will encounter Rubens’ vibrant style in museums, The Baroque is a singlehandedly put Antwerp on the map. The man fidelity, a cat was a harbinger churches, parks and squares, but also in the busy ges- product of the Counter- who left for Italy and returned with a whole new of misconduct. John the Baptist tures of a market stallholders, on a plate with an edible Reformation. But artists visual language: energetic, realistic, exuberant, always wears a red cloak and still life, on the racks in the shops of Antwerp’s fashion did not limit themselves teeming with emotions and movement. The man an oyster was already regarded designers. to painting pious, who still continues to inspire so many others as a symbol of lust and passion religious scenes. The today. even then. Baroque also tells a story of juicy curves, carnal The street artist Yvon Tordoir designed the letters d, i, j, k, u, x and z especially pleasures, violence and for ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018’. All the other letters are Bloempot initials from the bloodshed. Museum Plantin-Moretus. These were very popular in the seventeenth century TrOmpe-L’OeiL and were specially designed for Balthasar I Moretus in 1631. Christopher Jegher I see something that’s not there! A painted pillar suddenly resem- created the woodcuts, he was the only artist to produce monumental woodcuts for bles a real pillar thanks to an ingenious use of technique. A false Peter Paul Rubens. image, a real image. Perhaps this is an optical illusion. Baroque masters applied the technique in their paintings, and in the expo Baroque Book Design 72 landscape. Baroque in The ciTy Baroque Murals 96

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 8 7/05/18 17:44 RUBENS HERR INSPIRES “ Rubens’ letters teach us SEELE a lot about a fascinating man and his era ”

Peter Paul Rubens undoubtedly is diplomatic mission to Spain for example. Antwerp’s most famous Baroque painter. He had to make paintings with local He became world-famous during his painters at the Spanish court. He had the lifetime and Herr Seele, an artist and following complaints about this forced comic strip designer knows exactly why: collaboration”: “Rubens was capable of everything, was knowledgeable about everything. He was […] the incredible inadequacy and a brilliant artist, had a large workshop incompetence of these painters, and with many apprentices, designed his own (most“ importantly) their style which is home and travelled around Europe as a completely different from mine (God diplomat.” Herr Seele selects his favourite forbid that I should be similar to them in quotes from Rubens’ correspondence. any way).

“This probably reveals more about Herr Seele was an early Rubens fan. Rubens’ pride than about the painters’ In 2005, he passionately defended lack of talent”, Herr Seele laughs. “He the painter during the election of The was barely 26 years old but already he Greatest Belgian of all time. “The panache clearly wanted to be the greatest. He of Rubens’ painting style is unrivalled. could take on any subject.” I would have loved to have been one of his apprentices! He introduced sun and Crack the code ambience into the lives of his patrons, “Rubens was an exceptional diplomat, with his brightly-coloured canvases. I speaking five languages, which earned also love how he depicts men and women. him many international commissions. I prefer voluptuous women to the skinny What’s more, he was also very reliable, models we see on the catwalk today. My which is why high-powered people character Cowboy Henk was inspired by entrusted him with important missions.” the Baroque hero in Rubens’ paintings: This is apparent in his report to Marquis he is a muscle man, but not in an exces- Spinola in 1628, as he discusses the sive manner.” possibility of a peace treaty:

Great in every sense of the word Secrecy is primordial in this matter, Rubens was very much aware of his own which according to him is the crux of exceptional talent, as documented in his this“ affair: that is why he doesn’t want correspondence. anyone in Brussels to see him […] That is “In 1600, Rubens left for Italy, where he why he also left me a code. went to work for the Duke of Mantua, and was soon given a huge responsibility”, “Sending diplomatic letters always meant

THE MASTER LIVES Herr Seele explains. “He was sent on a that they could also be intercepted, which

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 8 7/05/18 17:44 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 9 7/05/18 17:44 is why correspondents refrained from outlining everything and sometimes used code language. When discussing delicate matters, Rubens switched to Latin or used quotes from authors. It was his way of covering his tracks”, Herr Seele explains.

Europe’s favourite […] to this day, I still have no idea which decision I should make,“ either stay here in my native country or return to Rome forever, from where I get commissions with the best conditions. Here too a veritable charm offensive is deployed and every effort is made to ensure I will stay.”

“Rubens was just 32 years old at the time, but the most prominent European dukes already

Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of Helena Fourment. clamoured for his works. In 1609, on the eve of the Twelve Years’ Truce, better times loomed on the horizon. Rubens also had more opportunities to shine in Antwerp, unlike in Italy where he was not the only amazing painter.” “Rubens was also a very skil- ful businessman. He run a huge workshop and had his apprentices paint works in his name, allowing him to complete a huge number of works in a very short period of time.”

The one and only Rubens women I would not dare follow in his footsteps because he made such“ a good choice that it seems almost inimitable. I also don’t want him to find my bride ugly, when he sees her with his wife.”

“That is what Rubens wrote about the wedding of his brother Philip, whom he hugely Peter Paul Rubens, Self-Portrait.

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 10 7/05/18 17:45 is why correspondents refrained admired. Rubens was 32 A caring father from outlining everything and years old at the time. While “Rubens cared deeply about sometimes used code language. he was very aware of his his family and friends. In When discussing delicate mat- professional reputation, he 1628, he was employed in ters, Rubens switched to Latin still felt very uncertain in Madrid and was unable to or used quotes from authors. love. At the same time, he personally oversee his son’s It was his way of covering his also realised that the time education. But he was very tracks”, Herr Seele explains. had come to marry. He sowed serious about the intellectual 3 × YOU CAN’T his wild oats during the rock education of his children”: AFFORD TO MISS Europe’s favourite ‘n roll years, freewheeling […] to this day, I still have and carving out a career for I beg you to admit my according to Herr Seele no idea which decision I should himself.” little Albert, that image of make,“ either stay here in my “But Rubens was also a myself,“ not to your house ¶ Rubens’ Return native country or return to man of flesh and blood, not chapel but to your study. I – Rubens House Rome forever, from where I a monk. He wrote a very sad love this child and highly “I love restored paintings. You only get commissions with the best letter about the death of his commend him to you, who really understand a painting as conditions. Here too a veritable wife Isabella”: are my best friend and the soon as the layer of brown varnish charm offensive is deployed and high priest of the Muses, […]. has been removed and the original every effort is made to ensure I I have truly lost an colours are revealed in all their will stay.” excellent companion, one Herr Seele relied on Leen Huet’s splendour. I’m very curious to whom“ one could and should ‘Rubens’ letters’ for the quotes. see Rubens’ self-portrait after its “Rubens was just 32 years old rightly and reasonably love. restoration.” at the time, but the most prom- […]; she was neither erratic, expo Rubens’ Return 65 inent European dukes already nor weak but so good and so ¶ Michaelina. Baroque’s Leading clamoured for his works. In sincere, and so loved during Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of Helena Fourment. Lady – mAs 1609, on the eve of the Twelve her lifetime for her virtues “This grand dame of the Baroque Years’ Truce, better times that everyone wept upon her has the most magnificent first loomed on the horizon. Rubens death. name, but we should also remem- also had more opportunities ber that this forgotten woman to shine in Antwerp, unlike in “Isabella and Rubens were painter was a genius. I had never Italy where he was not the only partners in crime, both in heard of her even though I’m very amazing painter.” business and in private. She intrigued by old art. She left us “Rubens was also a very skil- was his rock. But their mar- a stunning body of work, which I ful businessman. He run a huge riage was less passionate than really look forward to getting to workshop and had his appren- Rubens’ marriage to his sec- know better.” tices paint works in his name, ond wife, Helena Fourment. allowing him to complete a huge At the age of sixteen, Helena number of works in a very short personified Rubens’ models? ¶ B.O.X and Efterklang – Festive period of time.” He wrote this about her in opening weekend 1634”: “An Antwerp and Danish band will The one and only Rubens women perform contemporary music on I would not dare follow in I chose a young woman, Baroque instruments. Hearing his footsteps because he made from a decent albeit bour- these early music instruments live such“ a good choice that it seems geois“ family although is an enchanting experience. And almost inimitable. I also don’t everyone recommended that it’s incredibly interesting when want him to find my bride ugly, I marry a noblewoman. But I musicians create something new when he sees her with his wife.” feared pride, the most fre- with them. But there’s no denying quent ailment of the nobility, the sublime beauty of early music, “That is what Rubens wrote especially in that sex, and like Monteverdi’s compositions.” about the wedding of his that is why I chose a woman, brother Philip, whom he hugely who would not blush when I Peter Paul Rubens, Self-Portrait. picked up my brushes.

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Antwerp’s five monumental churches tell us a lot about Rubens’ life. Better yet: you can see some of his most famous works in them!

The Cathedral of Our Lady, St. Andrew’s Church, St. Charles Borromeo’s Church, St. James’s Church and St. Paul’s Church. Five stunning, historic churches in the city centre, all within walking distance of each other. While the majority look more Gothic on the outside, their interiors are a stunning example of a triumphant Baroque.

The paintings which Rubens created for these churches also contribute to their monumental look and feel. The Return of the Holy Family, the Elevation of the Cross, the Descent from the Cross and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary were all commissioned from the painter to convince churchgoers of a clearly legible message. And how they succeeded in this endeavour! Moreover, they sealed Rubens’ reputation as a world-class artist because the works were so accessible, appealing to a wide audience.

But Rubens did not just do business with these monumental churches. While these houses of prayer provided him with a living, they were first and foremost places where Rubens experienced and practiced his faith. Incidentally, Rubens and his family are buried in a chapel in St. James’s Church.

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Antwerp’s five monumental churches tell us a lot about Rubens’ life. Better yet: you can see some of his most famous works in them!

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 12 7/05/18 17:45 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 13 7/05/18 17:45 “ One visit is not enough to comprehend the Baroque” What is Rubens’ significance for a generation of artists who did not grow up with a Catholic tradition? We asked five actors in training.

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 14 7/05/18 17:45 “ One visit is not enough to comprehend Daniel, Francisco, Oliver, Asma (24) Francisco (50) Asma and Saida are all “I’m inspired by how the Baroque “I’ve been living in Antwerp for training at KunstZ. This artists represented movement. over 23 years now and I thought organisation supports I want to incorporate this in that I knew all the places we the Baroque” performing artists and actors my acting. And I have to say I visited. And yet I was pleasantly of various origins. Together was impressed with Rubens’ surprised to make new discov- they visited the Rubens character. He was always true to eries. Baroque is such a rich What is Rubens’ significance for a House, St. Charles Borromeo’s himself, despite the limitations of style... one visit is not enough Church and the Cathedral. In his time. He wanted to honour St. to comprehend its many layers. generation of artists who did not search of Rubens. On a quest Christopher in the painting for I’m a sculptor. And like the to discover Baroque Antwerp. the gunners’ guild but the church Baroque artist I like to work grow up with a Catholic tradition? And understand how it wouldn’t let him. So he used with contrasts. Between light possibly inspires them. symbols instead and portrayed and shadow, beauty and horror, We asked five actors in training. St. Christopher on the back of the life and death...” altarpiece!”

Oliver (22) Daniel (23) Saida (36) “I learnt and saw a lot of new “This style is so impressive! I “What I would do if someone things. I’d never been inside also draw so I know how dif- gave me such a painting? I St. Charles Borromeo Church ficult it is to create a realistic would never put it up on the for example. I’m a visual artist representation of a figure. But wall. While I admire the tech- so when I look at the output nobody succeeded in pulling off nique and the ideas behind of Baroque artists, I feel very this feat like Rubens. The figures it, all these contorted bodies inferior. It was an overwhelming in his paintings seem to be alive, and overly muscular men, all and pioneering period. I admire to move. I also find his use of the gold, the foliage and the the painting techniques. Rubens light and shadow very inspiring. animals on the façades: I find used oils, which is anything but I will definitely be applying this it just too overwhelming. I do an easy medium. I myself use in my own work.” find it important however that acrylics, which dry faster and are Baroque heritage is preserved easier to control.” and respected as it is part of the city’s history.”

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 16 7/05/18 17:45 RUBENS LUC INSPIRES TUYMANS “The emphasis is on the intensity”

‘Sanguine | Bloedrood’ is one of How did you choose the works? the early seventeenth century the major exhibitions during the “I was looking for recognisable was the era of the Reformation cultural city festival ‘Antwerp works. Take Michaël Borremans: and the Counter-Reformation, Baroque 2018. Rubens inspires’. if you were to hang his work a period of persecution. At the The internationally-acclaimed in between work by Adriaan same time, it also heralded a artist Luc Tuymans, who also Brouwer and Anthony van new way of visual thinking, in happens to be Belgium’s most Dyck’s Head of a Young Man, which art had to be dynamic, prominent living painter, is the you create an incredible arc. I grandiose and overwhelming. curator. “I wanted to return to wanted to establish a continuous Rubens reconciles all these con- the essence. To focus on the interaction between the past and tradictions: he was a citizen and intensity of the Baroque, then present, with ‘Sanguine’. I didn’t a diplomat, served the Church and now.” set out to create an art-historical and the King, while also being overview, the emphasis is on the an innovative artist. He could intensity of the image.” have invented public relations.” The title ‘Sanguine│Bloedrood’ refers to the Baroque’s gran- How would you explain the Do you see any parallels with the diose, even overwhelming Baroque to someone who is new present? character. Rubens loved colour to it? “Look at the situation we live and used it frequently and “Baroque can have different in today, at the appalling things lavishly. Tuymans hopes to meanings. It had a negative that are happening in the world, establish an encounter between connotation for quite a long the schisms, the violence and the the Baroque masters of the past time, and was associated with lack of mutual understanding. and contemporary artists with concepts such as ‘excessive’, Things were no different during the exhibition in the m HkA. He ‘bombastic’. And for many the Baroque. I’m very interested contrasts work of classic artists centuries it wasn’t even a style. in the processes that unfolded such as Francisco de Zurbarán, It was only defined as such at the then and now, in the process Caravaggio and van Dyck with end of the nineteenth century. itself in other words.” contemporary classic such as I want to dust it off and strip One work is crucial in this On Kawara, Edward Kienholz, it down to the essence again. I context: ‘Five Car Stud’ (1972) Michaël Borremans, Sigmar want to highlight the intensity by the American artists Edward

BAROQUE SHOCK BAROQUE Polke and others. of the Baroque. Remember that and Nancy Kienholz. This work

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has become very relevant again, the Italian Baroque painter would tend to go Caravaggio’s as an indictment of violence, Caravaggio, from the collection way, rather than follow Rubens. racism and terrorism. “This of the Villa Borghese in Rome, Caravaggio explored a reality large sculpture depicts the grue- namely ‘David with the Head of shift in his work, just like some scene of a man of colour Goliath’. We were unable to loan Kienholz. You cannot really who is castrated by five white the work, it is too precious and comprehend this reality, it is a men, because he was caught in a too fragile to travel. So we filmed different perception of reality. car with a white girl and suppos- it instead and will project in the Whereas mythology and religion edly had sex with her. The scene arched gallery in the m HkA. The were key elements in Rubens’ is set in the Deep South, in the tent with the Kienholzes’ work works, and his canvases took United States.” will be open every day from on almost film-like proportions. “It was first shown at midday until midnight so you Rubens was an entertainer Documental in Kassel in 1972 can see both works together.” before the term even existed. He but disappeared soon after. It created spectaculars for display resurfaced forty years later and It is obvious why you chose in public spaces, with large and was acquired and exhibited by Caravaggio but how is Kienholz’s grandiose dimensions.” the Prada Foundation in Milan. work related to the Baroque? But it was never displayed in “If you look at the Kienholzes’ Is Antwerp still the premier its original form, in a tent. That sculpture from a distance, then Baroque city? is what we will be doing for you can see the violence, the “Difficult to say. Perhaps we ‘Sanguine’. The work will be drama, the catharsis, the over- should admit that Antwerp did displayed in a domed tent next whelming character of it all. The shape Rubens, but that Rubens to the m HkA.” Baroque has all these elements put Antwerp on the map. In that “I have linked this work too. If my work were in any way sense, yes, Antwerp is indeed to the famous painting of influenced by the Baroque, I a Baroque city. Initially I was

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 18 7/05/18 17:45 3 × YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO MISS rather surprised that there be fascinating to put Rubens in according to Luc Tuymans is not a single major Rubens the spotlight, by not focusing on exhibition in this cultural city him too much, but to look at the ¶ Michaelina. Baroque’s festival ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018. peripherals, at the environment Leading Lady – mAs Rubens inspires’. The Rubens instead. Creating a presence “I would have liked to include her House is being renovated, some with absence. And I find that work in my exhibition ‘Sanguine’, of Rubens’ works returned to the quite enthralling.” because I find her work very con- city and there are some Rubens sistent and of very good technical walks but that’s it. At the same quality. But a separate exhibition is time, I can also see how it would expo Sanguine | Bloedrood 67 even better off course.”

¶ Experience Traps, – Middelheim Museum “I’m very curious to see how con- Edward & Nancy Kienholz, Five Car Stud, 1969 – 1972, Courtesy Edward & Nancy Kienholz, Collezione Prada, Milano - photo credit by Delfino Sisto Leguani Studio temporary artists will work with these Baroque landscape elements. I especially look forward to seeing has become very relevant again, the Italian Baroque painter would tend to go Caravaggio’s the work of the American artist as an indictment of violence, Caravaggio, from the collection way, rather than follow Rubens. Bruce Nauman, who is a central racism and terrorism. “This of the Villa Borghese in Rome, Caravaggio explored a reality figure in contemporary visual art.” large sculpture depicts the grue- namely ‘David with the Head of shift in his work, just like some scene of a man of colour Goliath’. We were unable to loan Kienholz. You cannot really ¶ Jan Fabre – AmUZ who is castrated by five white the work, it is too precious and comprehend this reality, it is a “I really believe in what Jan Fabre men, because he was caught in a too fragile to travel. So we filmed different perception of reality. is planning to do in AMUZ. Jan is car with a white girl and suppos- it instead and will project in the Whereas mythology and religion a real Antwerper and perhaps also edly had sex with her. The scene arched gallery in the m HkA. The were key elements in Rubens’ the most Rubentian artist of us all. is set in the Deep South, in the tent with the Kienholzes’ work works, and his canvases took I’m very curious to see what he will United States.” will be open every day from on almost film-like proportions. create in St. Augustine’s Church. “It was first shown at midday until midnight so you Rubens was an entertainer Knowing Jan, the result can only be Documental in Kassel in 1972 can see both works together.” before the term even existed. He surprising.” but disappeared soon after. It created spectaculars for display resurfaced forty years later and It is obvious why you chose in public spaces, with large and was acquired and exhibited by Caravaggio but how is Kienholz’s grandiose dimensions.” the Prada Foundation in Milan. work related to the Baroque? But it was never displayed in “If you look at the Kienholzes’ Is Antwerp still the premier its original form, in a tent. That sculpture from a distance, then Baroque city? is what we will be doing for you can see the violence, the “Difficult to say. Perhaps we ‘Sanguine’. The work will be drama, the catharsis, the over- should admit that Antwerp did displayed in a domed tent next whelming character of it all. The shape Rubens, but that Rubens to the m HkA.” Baroque has all these elements put Antwerp on the map. In that “I have linked this work too. If my work were in any way sense, yes, Antwerp is indeed Francisco de Zurbarán. San Sebastián mártir, 1650 – 1655, to the famous painting of influenced by the Baroque, I a Baroque city. Initially I was Museum national d’histoire et d’art Luxembourg.

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 18 7/05/18 17:45 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 19 7/05/18 17:45 JAN FABRE follows in RUBENS’ footsteps JAN FABRE spent three years thinking about them, developing them. A commission for new artworks, to replace the works of RUBENS, JORDAENS and VAN DYCK, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity after all. From July, you can see the new altarpieces for AMUZ, the former CHURCH OF ST. AUGUSTINE, on location.

In 1628, the Order of St. Augustine commissioned altarpieces for the Church of St. Augustine with three of the leading Antwerp Baroque painters, namely Rubens, Jordaens and Van Dyck. Peter Paul Rubens painted the canvas for the main altar, while Jacob Jordaens and Anthony van Dyck decorated the altars in the right and left naves. The three works are no longer in the church but have been transferred to the permanent collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Jan Fabre was asked to fill the gap and create new works for the Church of St. Augustine. “I think that I made about 50 collages and drawings for every panel. Over time, their symbolism and visual language became increasingly clear until I finally narrowed it down to three final collages or drawings. The altarpieces will be produced with the carapaces of jewel beetles. I’m fascinated by the iridescent green colour of these carapaces. It’s like painting with light.”

Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens painted the three original altarpieces. How does it feel to follow in their footsteps? “It’s an amazing honour and recognition. I feel very humble, compared with such master painters as Rubens. Or as I like to say: “I’m a dwarf in a country of giants”. This theme is also reflected in ‘The Man who bears the Cross’ in Antwerp’s my self-portrait with a bloodied nose: I run into Cathedral of Our Lady. the wall of history, but the nose-bleed and the

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 20 7/05/18 17:45 emptying of my nose also means freedom I wanted, which allowed creating the space for something me to create ‘Heaven of Delight’. new. There can be no avant-garde You need this freedom as an artist JAN FABRE follows in without tradition.” and I have to remain loyal to it. But you also have to always remember Do you have a special relationship where you stand. A building, or with the Church of St. Augustine, even a street or square, is a body. which is now the AmUZ early music Every artwork originates in a sen- RUBENS’ footsteps centre? sitive and even physical dialogue “The city, my ‘United States of with the narrative, the aesthetics JAN FABRE spent three years thinking about them, developing Antwerp’ was, is and always will and the ethics of the space you are them. A commission for new artworks, to replace the works of be an important playing field for working in.” me. I have many fond memories RUBENS, JORDAENS and VAN DYCK, is a once-in-a-lifetime of the neighbourhood around Amuz, especially Is this your first altarpiece? opportunity after all. From July, you can see the new altarpieces for from the Seventies to the end of the Nineties. How did you go about it? In 1979, one of my first exhibitions was held in “I’ve already worked in an ecclesiastical context. AMUZ, the former CHURCH OF ST. AUGUSTINE, on location. the former Jordaens House. In the Eighties and My sculpture ‘The Man who bears the Cross’ is on Nineties, I had a small studio in Kammenstraat permanent display in the Cathedral of Antwerp, with my then girlfriend, where I used to spend a and is aligned with Rubens’ ‘The Descent from the lot of time writing and drawing. And I rehearsed in Cross’. But no, I haven’t produced any altarpieces Begijnenstraat nearby, from 1989 until 1999, with to date. I try to combine all kinds of themes in the my theatre company Troubleyn.” new works. The turbulent history and the layers In 1628, the Order of St. Augustine commissioned of meaning in the works of Rubens, Jordaens altarpieces for the Church of St. Augustine with In the Baroque era, artists typically received and Van Dyck for example. But I also refer to the three of the leading Antwerp Baroque painters, ‘ commissions’. How can you be creative on convent church of the Order of St. Augustine and namely Rubens, Jordaens and Van Dyck. Peter request? its current use, as the Amuz early music centre. Paul Rubens painted the canvas for the main altar, “I’ve received many Belgian and international An encounter of different worlds, which I want to while Jacob Jordaens and Anthony van Dyck commissions. I only start if I have the guarantee bring together, with my own visual language, in decorated the altars in the right and left naves. that I have free rein. Even when the commission my own universe.” The three works are no longer in the church but comes from royalty, like Queen Paola at the time. have been transferred to the permanent collection I only started working when she granted me the expo Jan Fabre 70 of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Jan Fabre was asked to fill the gap and create new works for the Church of St. Augustine. “I think that I made about 50 collages and drawings for every panel. Over time, their sym- Heaven of Delight bolism and visual language became increasingly (2002). Carapaces of clear until I finally narrowed it down to three the jewel beetle on the ceiling of the Hall of final collages or drawings. The altarpieces will be Mirrors, Royal Palace, produced with the carapaces of jewel beetles. I’m Brussels fascinated by the iridescent green colour of these carapaces. It’s like painting with light.”

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We’re sure you’ll bump into Yvon Tordoir’s work by Baroque books. By the calligraphed letters, this year. The street artist has combined graffiti whose decorative details sometimes told you more and Baroque on several large walls in the city for than you could read.” ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018’. “Isn’t it amazing that we graffiti artists can be part of such a major cultural All of Antwerp is Baroque project? While the links between our work and that “Baroque is everywhere, did you know? It is not of the Baroque masters are very clear to me, most just a seventeenth-century thing. Take a walk people still think of us as being underground and through Antwerp and you will constantly bump not very respectable.” into lavish decorations, ornamentation and sculptures. I think Hendrik Conscienceplein and its St. Charles Borromeo Church is definitely a highlight. The endless decorations and details are over- Yvon Tordoir was mainly introduced to the whelming. And believe me, I know what I’m talk- Baroque as a style by his father, the visual artist ing about. When I was studying art in high school, Narcisse Tordoir. “I often work as his assistant and I spent hours and hours there during the perspec- that is how I discover works and techniques that tive classes. But that’s not all. I find Antwerp and I might not be exposed to if I didn’t do this job. I its population to be naturally Baroque. They are helped him with his work ‘Fake Barok’, studying both full of life, but they can also be very contrary.” several masterpieces in detail. This taught me a lot about Baroque realism and how these painters Baroque and graffiti are attitudes combined colours.” “I also see and feel this in my own work. Graffiti ruffles society’s feathers. Much like the Baroque Baroque and street art: a perfect match wanted to do away with the bright colours of But can you link a seventeenth-century art style the Renaissance. Baroque is an attitude. The to the street art and graffiti that Yvon Tordoir is graffiti and street art I create is on commission so passionate about? “Of course. These links were and therefore legal. And yet there’s still always easily established with all the artists that were someone who calls the police. It continues to be invited to participate in ‘Baroque Murals’. El Mac an obscure profession (laughs). That is why I try (San Pedro, California) creates very realistic por- to work on canvas now although I think my work traits, using only lines. I immediately recognised is more suited to walls and the street. Because Rembrandt’s etchings in his work. The violent then you bump into my work, without consciously contrasts in Smug’s (Glasgow) works are definitely looking for it. A canvas in a gallery never has the reminiscent of chiaroscuro. Astro (Paris) creates same impact.” vast spatial illusions, which can be linked to

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¶ Baroque Book Design from an apprentice who was – Plantin-Moretus Museum eager to learn into one of the “I’m so looking forward to this! most brilliant artists ever.” Combining typography with page layout, text and images, I ¶ Focus. Baroque splendour YOU CAN’T CAN’T YOU love it!” in a domestic setting × “The intimate Museum Mayer 3 ¶ In Rubens’ Footsteps van den Bergh exhibits the

AFFORD TO MISS AFFORD TO “This walk past Antwerp most magnificent private collec- churches is a must-see. It gives tion, which includes works by according to Yvon Tordoir Yvon to according participants a unique insight Baroque masters.” into how Rubens developed 24

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1977 versus 2018 no fuTure Antwerp also celebrated the Baroque and Rubens’ From 1976 onwards, the punk movement found its 400th anniversary in 1977, with a bunch of exhibitions way to Belgium, from London and Amsterdam. With and a lot of merchandising. The Antwerp band The slogans like No Future! and Anarchy!, the punk move- Strangers poked fun at this early form of city market- ment proved the greatest challenger of anything that ing with a hilarious Rubens song. That same year, the was deemed vaguely conformist. In Antwerp, punk Antwerp punk band The Kids signed its first record also charted a new visual and musical course, like an contract, releasing two albums soon after, titled The iconoclasm. For the first time ever, musicians who Kids and Naughty Kids. They epitomised Belgian punk. had to technical background, but a lot of energy and Now that the Baroque is such an important theme drive, took to the stage. Their style was all about DIY. again in Antwerp in 2018, Antwerp’s Academy has They made their own clothes, formed artists’ collec- Clockwise: work by El Mac, Yvon Tordoir, Smug and Astro. decided to put punk, its aftereffects and its influence tives and published punkzines. Performance, graffiti, on the contemporary scene in and around Antwerp in photo copied publications and a fast, primitive style of the neon spotlight this year. painting were their response to the intellectualist art of the Seventies. Punk took to the streets and squats hereTics and punks of our city, instead of exhibiting work in galleries. At first glance, the Baroque and punk are like oppo- sites, which don’t attract. Art with a capital A as WiLL There Be a nexT TiMe? opposed to alternative and underground. But they also Radical art and artistic activism are back on the have a lot in common. The Iconoclasm paved the way agenda today. Fashion designers incorporate punk for the Baroque, heralding a completely new visual elements into their collections while young bands language, which was dominated by physicality, move- rediscover the unique charm of low-tech. The visual ment and a certain visual directness. Caravaggio’s raw arts are experiencing a revival of artist’s journals and realism put paid to the excessively refined Mannerist DIY initiatives meanwhile. Punk is not dead. And the style. punk exhibition ‘Naughty Kids’ is living proof that the raw essence of punk is still very much present today ¶ Baroque Book Design from an apprentice who was and has not lost any of its relevance. – Plantin-Moretus Museum eager to learn into one of the “I’m so looking forward to this! most brilliant artists ever.” Combining typography with expo Naughty Kids 70 page layout, text and images, I ¶ Focus. Baroque splendour YOU CAN’T CAN’T YOU love it!” in a domestic setting × “The intimate Museum Mayer 3 ¶ In Rubens’ Footsteps van den Bergh exhibits the

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 24 7/05/18 17:45 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 25 7/05/18 17:45 5 questions for WILLIAM FORSYTHE

WHO IS WILLIAM FORSYTHE? °1949, New York — Dancer, choreographer and artist. Involved in the expeRience tRAps exhibition in the MiDDe LHeiM MuseuM .

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 26 7/05/18 17:45 This duster is part of William 5 questions for Forsythe’s work ‘Towards The Diagnostic Gaze’. The duster has been placed on a stone tablet, which has been engraved with the words: HOLD THe OBjecT WILLIAM ABsOLUTeLY sTiLL. The site-specific works I suggested for this exhibition attempt to offer physical access to the ideas behind them. These particular works focus on the concept of de-stabilisation, and in this case, this FORSYTHE infers physical and cognitive destabilisation.

3. To which extent do you choreograph the visitor’s movements? In the best case, my works do not intend to choreograph the visitors. In fact, visitors tend to choreograph themselves.

4. You refer to the works in the exhibition as Choreographic Objects. What are Choreographic Objects? Choreographic Objects are discrete systems 1. Do you have a special connection with Antwerp? that require activation, through conscious or I have a strong Antwerp connection through two unconscious competence. These objects do not people with whom I worked very closely together. exclusively generate their meaning with visual The oldest link I have with Antwerp is with the means. Instead they are living examples of specific artist Jan Fabre, whom I’ve known for over 25 physical circumstances. A number of these objects years. I invited him to work on an extraordi- require a gut reaction to their challenging com- nary commission for the Frankfurt Ballet in the plexities. Others require conscious brain tactics to Nineties. Jan’s radical art made an enduring fulfil their labyrinthine intentions. impression, on both the audience and myself. Physical engagement is the only means to under- I’ve also collaborated with Myriam De Clopper of standing the actions to which each choreo graphic De Singel for many years, as she was the primary system refers in all the cases. This is regarded as producer of my ballets in Belgium. Together the first principle of these Choreographic Objects. with Kathryn Bennett, the director of the Royal Ballet Flanders, we worked on two revivals of 5. What is the relation between your ballet work major ballet works, which would have been lost and your choreographic object work? WHO IS WILLIAM FORSYTHE? without her dedication. Having such supportive There is a very important connection between my colleagues is really important and I’m very grateful ballet work and my choreographic object work. I °1949, New York — Dancer, to them all. have researched the subjects that are contained And of course you cannot talk about Antwerp in the Choreographic Objects for several decades choreographer and artist. Involved in without mentioning talented fashion designers in my dance choreographies. Destabilisation, for like Dries Van Noten or Martin Margiela. I enjoy instance, is just one of many topics I’ve developed the expeRience tRAps exhibition wearing their creations. very consistently in the last few years. But this is just one of the concepts you will experience in in the MiDDe LHeiM MuseuM . 2. What are Experience Traps? the “Unsustainables” that I will present in the “Experience Traps”, which is the title of the exhi- Middelheim Museum. bition in Middelheim Museum, makes me think of physical experiences and entanglements. expo Experience Traps 69

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RI Bertrand Lavier. Fountain, 2014. EN CE

A forest that smells like an energy drink, a huge (machines) had to transform the classical landscape bouncy castle and unique open-air performances. into a fascinating place for encounters. The garden That is what you get when you ask contemporary became a place where visitors were manipulated artists to work with the ideas behind the Baroque and seduced.” landscape. ‘Experience Traps’ is an exhibition that messes with your experiences, that fools and The Middelheim Museum asked 16 contemporary surprises you. artists to develop their own take on the Baroque landscape experience. “The outcome: a series of “During the Baroque, gardens were the perfect very diverse works, which all have one thing in place to control nature, where the natural and common: they all elicit a physical and/or mental the artificial encountered each other”, says the experience.” exhibition curator Pieter Boons. “Artificial landscape elements, such as the grotto, the fountain, the tableau vivant, the labyrinth and automatons expo Experience Traps 69

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RI Bertrand Lavier. Fountain, 2014. see sMeLL TasTe — Mars (working title), — Energy Fog, Mike Bouchet — Heaven and Earth, Spencer Finch “The American artist Mike Adrien Tirtiaux “Our Gloriette, the boat house Bouchet focuses on the dicho- Adrien Tirtiaux’s circular struc- EN at the museum’s entrance, is in tomy between fake and real. ture connects heaven and earth fact a folly, which is a Baroque The smell of an energy drink in a very unique manner. He garden motif. Spencer Finch emanates from the forest. And creates a frame for the celestial, CE has decided to focus on the while we would not be surprised inspiring you to look up while building’s windows and create to smell this at a party, it feels enjoying a picnic in the park. the colour of light on the planet artificial, and is a strange and “Rubens apparently also had a Mars. In a sense, you could even alienating experience to pantheon-like open dome in his interpret this as his Baroque encounter it in a forest. Scent is house, under which he exhibited ambition to connect heaven and one of the strongest manipula- his collection of antique sculp- earth. And it also refers to the tors, which controls behaviour in tures. A really nice reference.” fascination for astrology and today’s consumer society.” watch ing the stars, which origi- nated during this period.”

hear feeL — Birdcalls, Louise Lawler — Underall, William Forsythe “A mechanical parrots pro- The American dancer, choreogra- nounces the names of famous, pher and artist William Forsythe male artists. Like a parrot, which helped design the ‘Experience means you may not understand Traps’ exhibition and also created some names and hear other several works for the exhibition. names continuously. Baroque “Forsythe focuses on destabilisa- gardens often had mechanical tion. He created an earthquake birds (an example of an auto- lawn, a section of grass on which maton). This is an ironic work, you need to find your balance which highlights the constant again.” attention to male artists. Here again, the artist combines the A forest that smells like an energy drink, a huge (machines) had to transform the classical landscape natural with the man-made.” bouncy castle and unique open-air performances. into a fascinating place for encounters. The garden That is what you get when you ask contemporary became a place where visitors were manipulated artists to work with the ideas behind the Baroque and seduced.” landscape. ‘Experience Traps’ is an exhibition that messes with your experiences, that fools and The Middelheim Museum asked 16 contemporary surprises you. artists to develop their own take on the Baroque landscape experience. “The outcome: a series of “During the Baroque, gardens were the perfect very diverse works, which all have one thing in place to control nature, where the natural and common: they all elicit a physical and/or mental the artificial encountered each other”, says the experience.” exhibition curator Pieter Boons. “Artificial landscape elements, such as the grotto, the fountain, the tableau vivant, the labyrinth and automatons expo Experience Traps 69

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 30 7/05/18 17:45 RUBENS ANNE-MIE INSPIRES VAN KERCKHOVEN “People will do anything when the urge to create art becomes too strong. Even abandon their own children”

“A woman must have money Art as a full-time job contemporaries. She was a and a room of her own if she is “In the old days, noblewomen liberated, free-spirited woman, to write fiction”, Virginia Woolf were trained to create art, who trained as an artist and wrote in her famous essay, as part of their education. who painted nudes in a canvas ‘A Room of One’s Own’. And a Unfortunately many of them like ‘Triumph of Bacchus’, woman needs this same freedom stopped doing this when they which focused on the theme to create visual art. For centu- married. That is what I find so of lust. And yet her work was ries, this has been anything but interesting about Michaelina: almost lost in the folds of art evident. There is one notable her perseverance. She continued history, because nobody wrote exception in the history of art: to work, becoming an expert about it. “This continues to be the Belgian artist Michaelina at what she did.” Wautier extremely important”, says Van Wautier. And now this leading did not marry, and, like Van Kerckhoven. “My exhibition lady of the Baroque finally has a Kerckhoven, she never had in the m HkA received a lot of chance to shine in the first major children. “Creating things, media coverage, which is crucial. retrospective of her work. ensuring your art is constantly You need these write-ups, or the evolving is a full-time job. It next generation will never know consumes your mind day and about your work.” Another interesting figure in night. As a mother, you must While Anne-Mie Van art history is the Antwerp artist relinquish your mind to your Kerckhoven entered the arts Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven. She children. Possibly there are scene many centuries after has chosen to dedicate her life people who have succeeded in Michaelina Wautier, she still to the arts, as a visual artist, this endeavour, but it doesn’t struggled at times. In the graphic designer and performer. work for everyone. People will Seventies, there was still a lot “But this is still not considered do anything when the urge to of doubt whether women could an evidence for women”, accord- create art becomes too strong. be full-fledged artists. That is ing to Van Kerckhoven. “That is They will even abandon their one of the reasons why Van why I’m very interested to see children.” Kerckhoven still only signs her the Michaelina Wautier exhibi- work with her initials. Her art tion. The curator, Katlijne Van A liberated women studies did not go seamlessly der Stighelen, is a good friend of What is so unique about Wautier either. “When I was studying mine and I’ve already heard a lot that she seemingly enjoyed at the art academy in Antwerp,

MYSTERIOUS MICHAELINA about Michaelina from her.” more freedom than her female there were thirty of us in the

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first year. By the third year, This was the case for Picasso for “ People need there were just four women. Our example, and so that was my lecturer used to call our year the definition of an artist.” to write about ‘year of goats’! He used to say: your work or I’m not going to invest in you Porn mags because one day you will all have “As students we were given life it will be lost children and all my efforts will drawing classes, but I wanted to in the folds of have amounted to nothing.” continue to draw nudes after my studies. I found a second-hand history.” Role models shop where you could buy porn Van Kerckhoven sought and mags on the cheap. The photos found female role models. “I’ve were quite innocent, you know. always been interested in the Women undressing and so on. lives of women like Marie Curie, And that is how it all started: women who set themselves a since then I’ve continued to goal.” collect these magazines until the Van Kerckhoven is not just sexual revolution happened.” interested in female artists, she Van Kerckhoven combined also looks at how women are her fascination in nude women portrayed. It was a theme in her with an interest in artificial work from the outset. “As a child intelligence. These are still the I had the idea that artists are two most important themes in people who draw naked women. her work. “In the Seventies, I

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¶ Baroque Book Design the position of curator – Plantin-Moretus of what was called the Museum Rockox House at the time. “I actually want to see all But his parents were the exhibitions in the mar- events organisers and they gin of the Baroque festival relied on him as a chef but this one intrigues me and waiter. He ended up the most”. Baroque Book choosing to work for their Design shows how book company, after being pres- publishing evolved during sured into it by his mum. the Baroque. Several So my reasons for seeing new book genres saw the this exhibition on food are light during the sixteenth entirely melancholy.” Michaelina Wautier. Two Girls as Saint Agnes and Saint Dorothy, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven. century thanks to publish- Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp OrakelOrnament. ers such as the Plantin- ¶ Sanguine | Bloedrood Moretus family, who were – m HkA always searching for ways “Obviously I’m very curi- first year. By the third year, This was the case for Picasso for worked as a graphic designer for of committing new know- ous about this exhibition. “ People need there were just four women. Our example, and so that was my a company that was called in to ledge and ideas to paper. Luc Tuymans is curating lecturer used to call our year the definition of an artist.” detect radioactivity. I was work- “I’m endlessly fascinated it, and is exhibiting key to write about ‘year of goats’! He used to say: ing on an ad for a Geiger counter by how an era’s Zeitgeist works from the Baroque, your work or I’m not going to invest in you Porn mags and had to create a drawing of is reflected in the books which he will contrast with because one day you will all have “As students we were given life a woman in a bikini. This really that are published during the work of contemporary it will be lost children and all my efforts will drawing classes, but I wanted to made me angry until I suddenly that era. I’ve always been artists.” Tuymans has in the folds of have amounted to nothing.” continue to draw nudes after my realised the following: if they attracted to books as an loaned several seven- studies. I found a second-hand can use a woman to sell such a art form, ever since I was teenth-century master- history.” Role models shop where you could buy porn device, then I can use nudes to a child.” pieces for this exhibition in Van Kerckhoven sought and mags on the cheap. The photos explain abstract concepts. And the M hKA. “I’m especially found female role models. “I’ve were quite innocent, you know. this continues to be the corner- ¶ Cokeryen curious to see which young always been interested in the Women undressing and so on. stone of my art practice.” – Snijders & Rockox artists Luc has chosen as a lives of women like Marie Curie, And that is how it all started: House contrast.” women who set themselves a since then I’ve continued to expo Michaelina 66 “I chose this exhibition goal.” collect these magazines until the for personal reasons. My Van Kerckhoven is not just sexual revolution happened.” father, who played a very interested in female artists, she Van Kerckhoven combined active role in Antwerp’s also looks at how women are her fascination in nude women cultural life, was offered portrayed. It was a theme in her with an interest in artificial work from the outset. “As a child intelligence. These are still the I had the idea that artists are two most important themes in people who draw naked women. her work. “In the Seventies, I

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 32 7/05/18 17:46 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 33 7/05/18 17:46 Michaelina Wautier Piecing together the PUZZle of A MysterioUs life

We know very little about the life of Michaelina Wautier (1604 – 1689). But the art she left us is simply pheno- menal. Her talent, guts and versatility only make her stand out even more during a period when women artists were the exception rather than the rule. Some pieces of the puzzle that was Mysterious Michaelina.

MysTerious MichaeLina Her 3.5-metre wide aMBiTious MichaeLina Women painting ‘Triumph of Bacchus’ (c. 1655) is not just were only admitted to art academies unusual because of its shape. The choice of subject at the end of the nineteenth century, is equally exceptional for a woman artist. The in separate classes at that, drawing canvas features several naked men and the theme from life, with “models” who wore is audacious to say the least: seduction, lust, drink- tights to conceal their nudity. So how ing... A very unusual subject for a “well-educated” did she become so knowledgeable seventeenth-century girl. But wait, there is more... about the male anatomy? Her brother Charles was also a painter. Did she steal with her eyes in his studio? naughTy MichaeLina The half-naked woman who is the only figure in the ‘Triumph of Bacchus’ to size us up with a self-assured glance? Michaelina. Her connections with many prominent figures of her time (including the Archduke Leopold William, who purchased the painting) probably ensured that her unconventional behaviour did not get her into trouble.

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ruBens & MichaeLina? We have no idea whether they ever met, but there is a link between them. Paulus Pontius, one of Rubens’ apprentices created an engraving after Michaelina’s portrait of the Italian general Andreas Cantelmo. Michaelina was born We know very little about the life of around the same time as Rubens’ eldest Michaelina Wautier (1604 – 1689). But daughter, Clara Serena (1611 – 1623). What would Rubens have made of such a talented the art she left us is simply pheno- MichaeLina rocks Whereas albeit rebellious daughter like Michaelina? menal. Her talent, guts and versatility most women artists chose to limit themselves to one genre, such as still only make her stand out even more life, Michaelina was equally talented, during a period when women artists in every discipline, on canvas of all dimensions. In fact, she was so were the exception rather than the talented that some of her colleagues rule. Some pieces of the puzzle that marvelled “that a woman can create such works”. Even then, women was Mysterious Michaelina. already bumped into a glass ceiling. That said, Michaelina succeeded in MysTerious MichaeLina Her 3.5-metre wide aMBiTious MichaeLina Women creating a huge crack in it. painting ‘Triumph of Bacchus’ (c. 1655) is not just were only admitted to art academies unusual because of its shape. The choice of subject at the end of the nineteenth century, is equally exceptional for a woman artist. The in separate classes at that, drawing MichaeLina is hoT Ever since canvas features several naked men and the theme from life, with “models” who wore the art historian Katlijne Van der is audacious to say the least: seduction, lust, drink- tights to conceal their nudity. So how Stighelen, who curated this exhi- ing... A very unusual subject for a “well-educated” did she become so knowledgeable bition, (re-)discovered Michaelina seventeenth-century girl. But wait, there is more... about the male anatomy? Her brother Wautier about thirty years ago, the Charles was also a painter. Did she interest in Wautier’s work has grown steal with her eyes in his studio? continuously. An international search, naughTy MichaeLina The half-naked instigated by the Rubens House, led woman who is the only figure in the ‘Triumph of to the discovery of new works. We Bacchus’ to size us up with a self-assured glance? haven’t heard or seen the last of this expo Michaelina Michaelina. Her connections with many prominent unique woman artist. 66 figures of her time (including the Archduke Leopold William, who purchased the painting) probably ensured that her unconventional behaviour did not get her into trouble.

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“ White bread was for the rich. What a contrast with the present day” BAROQUE FOR FOODIES BAROQUE

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market stalls full of shiny fish from the Scheldt and the North Sea. But you could also score more followers by painting non-local food, as you can see from the prominent place of exotic and exclusive fruit and vegetables in these paintings. Artichokes, melons and cit- rus fruit were imported from warmer regions and ferried to Antwerp’s port. In one of the canvases, we see some very appetising cheese and seductive butter curls as well as a white bread roll. During the Baroque, white bread was strictly for the rich. Barbara Serulus and Johanna they almost resemble centu- Transforming the cereal into Goyvaerts of the Alle Dagen ries-old photos. They also give white flour rather than whole- “ White bread was Honger project agency were us an idea of what the rich and meal flour was a more costly inspired by Baroque still lifes in famous of Antwerp used to process. This also explains why their personal quest to understand pile on their plate during the the poor mainly ate dark rye for the rich. What food then and now. Baroque. Lavish hunting scenes, bread while the rich enjoyed populated with dead herons, refined white bread. a contrast with the songbirds, ducks and chickens, The fact that refined food Looking at the still lifes of seven- overflowing fruit baskets with was more expensive and thus a teenth-century Antwerp painters grapes, wild strawberries and luxury product is quite a con- present day” feels like scrolling through a cherries that look so fresh and trast with today’s food system, Baroque Instagram feed. The ripe that you are almost tempted in which processed food is much

BAROQUE FOR FOODIES BAROQUE paintings are so detailed that to pick them off the canvas and cheaper.

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 36 7/05/18 17:46 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 37 7/05/18 17:46 The new culinary elite Let’s get cooking! A quick look at the Instagram We were inspired by the food of feed of contemporary influenc- the poor during the Baroque and ers teaches us that still lifes with by Frans Snijders’s painting of a healthy, unprocessed and local fish market for this recipe. food score more likes nowadays You can see a fishmonger than a photo of white bread roll peddling his wares in this and cheese. Local has become a painting, which is on display in 3 × YOU CAN’T niche: exclusive and no longer Snijders & Rockox House. We AFFORD TO MISS available to a large group of immediately thought of pick- people. But that is exactly what led herrings. This was a very according to Barbara & the poor used to eat during the popular method for preserving Johanna Baroque. fish in the Baroque, which ¶ Cokeryen unfortunately is often forgotten – Snijders&Rockox House nowadays. “We are interested to see how the food photographer Tony Le Duc will contrast his own work with Frans Snijders’s still lifes. Will he create a clash of old and new visual languages or will his images blend in subtly with those of his Baroque Go to www.antwerpbaroque2018.be for even more herring predecessors?” recipes from Alle Dagen Honger. ¶ Baroque Is Not Dead! by Vonk en Zonen “A band of musicians, authors, actors, comedians and poets pay tribute to the Baroque. A culturally edifying late-night session! Who wouldn’t be up for this?”

¶ Weihnachtsoratorium by Johann Sebastian Bach “Sometimes we listen to classical music on Sunday mornings at breakfast, over rolls and cheese. So we are very curious about the performance of the full version of Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Weihnachtsoratorium’ a six-part musical story about the birth of Christ. It is quite rare for all six cantatas to be performed back to back, making this a day-long event.”

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 38 7/05/18 17:46 The new culinary elite Let’s get cooking! A quick look at the Instagram We were inspired by the food of feed of contemporary influenc- the poor during the Baroque and ers teaches us that still lifes with by Frans Snijders’s painting of a healthy, unprocessed and local fish market for this recipe. food score more likes nowadays You can see a fishmonger than a photo of white bread roll peddling his wares in this and cheese. Local has become a painting, which is on display in 3 × YOU CAN’T niche: exclusive and no longer Snijders & Rockox House. We AFFORD TO MISS available to a large group of immediately thought of pick- people. But that is exactly what led herrings. This was a very according to Barbara & the poor used to eat during the popular method for preserving Johanna Baroque. fish in the Baroque, which ¶ Cokeryen unfortunately is often forgotten – Snijders&Rockox House nowadays. “We are interested to see how the food photographer Tony Le Duc will contrast his own work with Frans Snijders’s still lifes. Will he create a clash of old and new visual Pickled herring languages or will his images blend in subtly with those of his Baroque Go to www.antwerpbaroque2018.be for even more herring Herring can be preserved for longer by MeThod predecessors?” recipes from Alle Dagen Honger. gutting the fish, and therefore removing Ask your fishmonger to fillet 10 herrings for you with the the perishable parts of the fish and then fillets left attached by the skin. Start by curing the herring ¶ Baroque Is Not Dead! curing it with salt. The fishing industry fillets until dry in the sea salt. As the fillets are still atta- by Vonk en Zonen and the herring trade flourished as a ched, you can cover them with the salt. The fish scales will “A band of musicians, authors, result. After the curing, the herring is prevent the fillets from absorbing too much salt. actors, comedians and poets pay marinated in vinegar with herbs and tribute to the Baroque. A culturally spices, allowing the fish to cure further, To dry-cure your herring fillets, pour some salt in a dish and edifying late-night session! Who until the fillets turn a nice white colour arrange half of the fillets on the salt. Cover with a layer of wouldn’t be up for this?” and become even more flavoursome. salt, arrange the remaining fillets on the salt and cover with Herring is super cheap and pickling can another layer of salt. Put in the fridge to chill overnight. ¶ Weihnachtsoratorium be quite relaxing. This recipe, which was by Johann Sebastian Bach inspired by that of the Antwerp master Brush the salt off the fish and rinse the fillets under cold, “Sometimes we listen to classical chef Johan Segers, gives a few pointers. running water. Separate the fillets from one another and music on Sunday mornings at place them in a tray or container. Place under gently run- breakfast, over rolls and cheese. ingredienTs for 1 Large jar ning water for about 30 minutes to rinse off any excess salt. So we are very curious about the – 10 double herring fillets performance of the full version – 1.5 kg coarse sea salt Now marinate the fillets in the jar with the remaining ingre- of Johann Sebastian Bach’s – 2 onions, finely sliced dients. Start by arranging ¼ of the onion, lemon, thyme, ‘Weihnachtsoratorium’ a six-part – 1 peeled lemon, in half moons bay leaf and juniper berries on the bottom of the jar. Then musical story about the birth of – 4 bay leaves arrange 1⁄3 of the herring fillets on top of this. Repeat until Christ. It is quite rare for all six – a few sprigs of fresh thyme you have used up all the fish and then cover with a layer cantatas to be performed back – 20 juniper berries of onion, thyme, bay leaf, juniper berries and lemon. Grind to back, making this a day-long – freshly-ground black pepper some pepper over the fish and then pour over the vinegar, event.” the white wine vinegar and the white wine. for The curing Liquid – 150 ml vinegar Close the jar with its lid and store in your fridge. The herring – 150 ml white wine vinegar will start to gain in flavour after four days but will only taste – 150 ml white wine better the longer it marinates. You can keep pickled herring – also: a large, sterilised glass jar for about one month in your fridge. with a lid Frans Snijders, ‘Vismarkt te Antwerpen’. 38 bARoque foR fooD ies 39

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 38 7/05/18 17:46 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 39 7/05/18 17:46 EYES, NOSE For ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018’, the food and MOUTH photographer Tony Le Duc decided to TASTING explore the cookbook of ANTONIUS with MAGIRUS and the area AROUND DE CONINCKPLEIN. Two very different projects that each highlight TONY the lavishness of the Baroque in their LE DUC own way.

To the left, the new Baroque dish that chef Dennis Broeckx of L’Epicerie du Cirque prepared. To the right, Tony Le Duc’s photo.

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 40 7/05/18 17:46 EYES, NOSE For ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018’, the food and MOUTH photographer Tony Le Duc decided to TASTING explore the cookbook of ANTONIUS with MAGIRUS and the area AROUND DE CONINCKPLEIN. Two very different projects that each highlight TONY the lavishness of the Baroque in their LE DUC own way.

Tony Le Duc joined various completely different approach version of these still lifes, using families in Antwerpen-Noord for the Snijders&Rockox House. my own technique, the floating for his ‘Family Tables’ project. Instead of portraying people, he technique. I arrange all kinds of “I portray the family at their has created intriguing food still ingredients on various Plexiglas richly-laid table with steaming lifes. “I read the cookbook of plates and photograph them dishes. These life-size photos Antonius Magirus, which dates from above. It’s like a cabinet will be exhibited in Antwerp’s from 1612. And then I asked with many different drawers.” central Permeke Library. These several Antwerp chefs to use Here again, you can enjoy stately, lavish portraits will Magirus’s techniques and ingre- these mouth-watering photos, showcase opulence, just like they dients to create new recipes. I but you also have the opportu- did in the Baroque.” worked with the photos of these nity to smell and taste the dishes The exhibition kicks off new dishes. They are the inter- in them. The restaurants that during the three-day ‘Festival mediary step, culminating into participated in ‘Cokeryen’ will Royal’, in and around the library my Baroque still lifes, which are add their Baroque dish to their in De Coninckplein. “You will created here and now, in 2018.” respective menus for a period of also be able to taste the diversity These photos engage in a dia- three months. of Antwerpen-Noord. I am col- logue with seventeenth-century laborating with Daphne Aalders still lifes of fruit and vegetables, of Food for Foodies. She knows fish, and hunting scenes in the the neighbourhood inside and ‘Cokeryen’ exhibition. Because out, will contact people and will Le Duc interprets the Baroque To the left, the new Baroque record the recipes and stories in his own special way. “I use dish that chef Dennis that relate to my portraits.” Baroque characteristics such as Broeckx of L’Epicerie du Cirque prepared. To the chiaroscuro, the colour palette right, Tony Le Duc’s photo. Floating food and layers like Baroque artists. expo Cokeryen Le Duc has opted for a But I create a modern, photo fesTivaL Festival Royal

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 42 7/05/18 17:46 RUBENS PIETER INSPIRES THEUNS “There are plenty of similarities between pop and the Baroque”

Baroque Orchestration X – or concerts attract Studio Brussel study the classical guitar – out B.O.X for short – plays new music listeners as well as people who of necessity – at the Lemmens on old instruments. It often have been listening to Klara for Institute. That is where I was partners with rock bands such as years. “Everyone likes some- first introduced to lute music. Dez Mona and – this year – the thing different in our music. If And that is where I discovered Danish band Efterklang. And you know a lot about Baroque that the harmonious simplicity what a success these partner- music, you may discover indi- of Renaissance and Baroque ships are. Even The New York erock and realise that it is not music appeals to me in the Times had nothing but praise for as commercial as you think. same way as pop and rock do. what they do. Whereas you may be intrigued Many master lute players – by all the strange instruments on Nigel North, Hopkinson Smith the stage if you have no notion – listened to the Grateful Dead On 3 June, B.O.X will be per- of classical music.” and the Rolling Stones in the forming with Efterklang against Sixties, like everyone else.” a breath-taking backdrop, in You’re 39 years old. It doesn’t Hendrik Conscienceplein. “Our seem like an age at which you Was Baroque music the pop working title is ‘Altid Sammen’. are spontaneously exposed music of its time? Efterklang vocalist Casper calls to Baroque music. Or did your “No. Nowadays music is it his love letter to Antwerp, a parents make you listen to this everywhere, but in those days city where he spent a lot of time type of music as a child? it was much rarer to hear it. in the past year.” “(laughs) My father was a People didn’t have radios in B.O.X and Efterklang will be classical pianist, so in that sense the Middle Ages. In those days, performing new compositions, you could say that the apple did professional musicians were which hold the middle between not fall far from the tree. I took employed by a king or a duke. the Baroque and pop and have piano and violin lessons as a Or they played for the clergy. all the ingredients to appeal to child, but I excelled at neither. I In effect, they were used very a wide audience. Pieter Theuns had other interests. Years later, much like a stereo system: doesn’t think he has an educa- I became interested in music they were trotted out to play tional task however. “We don’t again. I founded my own band music for visitors. Some of the want to educate, we want to and would imitate Jimi Hendrix best musicians – Francesco stimulate. I hope that we can around bonfires. My roots are da Milano – were even head- broaden people’s outlook with strictly rock and pop. But you hunted. He was handsomely our music. And we seem to be couldn’t rock in academies at the paid to move from one court

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 44 7/05/18 17:46 Bach, Handel and Vivaldi are the most famous Baroque composers. of lute players. But the ordinary only achieve a real cross-polli- folk mainly listened to popular nation if everyone steps out of But there is so much more stun- music. They were not exposed to his comfort zone. That is the Playlist 3 × YOU CAN’T ning Baroque music you can Baroque music.” only dogma we apply with B.O.X tHe sounD of tHe when working with another AFFORD TO MISS discover. We have put together Do you find that the public band. Let’s sit down together, according to Pieter bARoque has become more receptive to our own unique playlist for you. with an empty sheet of paper Theuns Baroque music? and do something new.” “Definitely. Rock musicians have become more curious about clas- ¶ Earth Diver by Muziektheater Transparant sical music in recent years, and “ Professional Baroque I know Muziektheater vice versa. People are looking musicians were like Transparant very well and I’ve 1 OrAZZiO VeccHi, Requiem aeternam de la 5 HeiNricH iGNAZ FrANZ VON BiBer, for guidance and authenticity a stereo system. ► ► heard some very good things Missa pro defunctis, by graindelavoix Passacaglia pour violon, by Maya Homburger in these hectic times. For music They were trotted about this. I read that they We have no idea which music was played at This composition is built over a constantly repeating which is good, because it is out to play music for are working on a multimedia Rubens’ funeral. According to the musicians of the theme of four notes, which are repeated 65 times. deeply rooted in time. And when visitors.” Baroque is played the right way, spectacular about a society in graindelavoix ensemble, this might well be it. The Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber then added texture by it can feel surprisingly modern.” crisis. I have to admit that I’m style – a complex tapestry of the sound of voices writing all kinds of variations on the theme. Variation quite curious.” without instrumental accompaniment – still refers to and improvisation were very popular in the Baroque A good way of ensuring Baroque the Renaissance. and many of these techniques are still used in jazz music doesn’t sound stuffy ¶ Reinoud Van Mechelen & today. is to create your own, new A nocte temporis – AmUZ ► 2 LeONOrA DUArTe, Sinfonia 5 de Secondi compositions, like you do with This free approach is rather “This is bound to be really toni, by Transports Publics ► 6 cLAUDiO mONTeVerDi, Lamento della ninfa, B.O.X. Or to modernise old unusual in the world of classical good. Reinoud Van Mechelen Leonora Duarte (1610 – 1678) lived in Antwerp, just by Le Poème Harmonique compositions. The violist Nigel music, isn’t it? is a haute-contre, a rare type of around the corner from Rubens. Around 1635, this Monteverdi was employed at Vincenzo Gonzaga’s Kennedy, who shot to fame “That’s right. But musicians high tenor voice, which I think is Jewish woman wrote seven compositions, which are court in Mantua, around the same time as Rubens. A with his own interpretation of who perform Baroque music amazing. He will be performing quite unique. Unique as there are very few examples nymph laments her fate after being abandoned by the Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, once said are freer per definition than with his own ensemble. And this of Baroque music by women and Jewish composers. love of her life. Three shepherds look on in sympathy. to me: “It’s not because you are other musicians. The score is piece – Dumesny, le haute-con- Leonora’s music has now been recorded for the first In 2010, the Norwegian folk singer Ane Brun reworked playing the work of a composer much more restrictive for the tre de Lully – accentuates his time for Antwerp Baroque 2018. this composition, proving that heartbreak is a timeless who has been dead for over performer in the periods after voice even more so I’m sure this emotion. three hundred years that it has the Baroque as more and more will be one of the highlights. I ► 3 j.j. FrOBerGer, Sarabande from Suite XX in to sound like it.” is set in stone. A Baroque score wouldn’t miss it for the world.” D major, by Gustav Leonhardt ► 7 THe BeATLes, In my life “I don’t think that I could have has very little information, Antwerp harpsichords are world-famous and you can In 1965, The Beatles wanted to add a more Baroque said it any better. I’m a freelance leaving a lot of margin for your ¶ Baroque Burez – mAs hear why in this 1962 recording, which includes a harp- sound to their song In My Life. They came up with lute player so I have some sort own interpretation. In a sense, “Athos Burez regularly works sichord from 1640. the idea of using a harpsichord but none of the band of relationship with the classic there are many similarities with with fellow musicians creating members knew how to play it. Their producer George Baroque repertory. But with the chords of a pop song. You’ll their CD covers among others. ► 4 jeAN-BApTisTe LULLY, Akte V, scène 1: Martin came to the rescue, devising a piano solo that B.O.X, we have consciously see a few notes, but what you do He also supplied the promo- Passacaille d’Armide, by Collegium Vocale sounded (a little) like a harpsichord when accelerated. chosen to perform our own, new with them, how you play them, tional visual for our performance and La Chapelle Royale conducted by Philippe work. It is a way of distinguish- is your own choice. This freedom ‘On Moonlight and Rain’ with Herreweghe ing ourselves from the rest. But really gives me a kick.” The Golden Glows. I always The first opera in Antwerp was performed in a tiny we don’t perform crossover or thought his style verged on theatre in Grote Markt in 1682, marking the start of a fusion. Because that would mean the Baroque, which is why am long-standing and diverse tradition. Initially, the thea- that our concerts consist of a bit very interested to see how he tre mainly staged performances of the music of Lully, coMpLeTe pLayLisT aT www.antwerpbaroque2018.be of Baroque, with something else. will interpret a theme like the the favourite composer of the Sun King, Louis XIV. Music 74 That combination just doesn’t ‘Baroque’ with this commission.” work in my opinion. You can fesTive opening Weekend 64 Music 74 44 Rubens is A Dj 45

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 44 7/05/18 17:46 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 45 7/05/18 17:46 The sound of the baroque six BArOQUe iN sTrUmeNTs from the collection of the Vleeshuis m useum

Harpsichord by Joannes Daniel Dulcken Harpsichord by Andreas Ruckers (Antwerp, 1747) (Antwerp, 1646)

Harpsichords Antwerp was the harpsichord capital of the makers all came from one and the same family: world from 1560 until 1660. Every year, hun- the Ruckers-Couchet family. The tradition con- dreds of harpsichords and virginals (a keyboard tinued in the eighteenth century, with several instrument of the same family) were sent from prominent instrument makers such as Joannes Antwerp’s workshops to salons and music Daniel Dulcken. rooms around Europe. The main instrument

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 46 7/05/18 17:46 The sound of Violin by Matthijs Hofmans (Antwerp, 1671) A Baroque violin looks slightly different from a modern violin and the baroque is strung with catgut strings. The sound is also different: it had a quiet six BArOQUe iN sTrUmeNTs but sweet sharpness. For quite some time, the instrument was only used from the collection of the Vleeshuis m useum by professional musicians.

Viola da gamba by Gaspar Borbon (Brussels, 1697) The viola da gamba is a distant relative of the guitar and a com- petitor of the cello. The viola da gamba was a firm favourite of amateur and profes- Baroque guitar sional musicians like (Italy?, c. 1700) in the seventeenth The lute and the guitar were extremely century because of its popular during the Baroque. They were the warm, clear sound. perfect instruments to accompany yourself while singing.

Harpsichord by Joannes Daniel Dulcken Harpsichord by Andreas Ruckers (Antwerp, 1747) (Antwerp, 1646)

Hobo by J.-H. Rottenburgh Harpsichords (Brussels, c. 1725) Antwerp was the harpsichord capital of the makers all came from one and the same family: The modern orchestra would sound world from 1560 until 1660. Every year, hun- the Ruckers-Couchet family. The tradition con- quite different without the oboe and dreds of harpsichords and virginals (a keyboard tinued in the eighteenth century, with several yet this instrument was only invented instrument of the same family) were sent from prominent instrument makers such as Joannes in the seventeenth century. Music Wednesday Sounds 79 Antwerp’s workshops to salons and music Daniel Dulcken. Music Retteketet Muziekkabinet 83 rooms around Europe. The main instrument Music From Bach To The Future 81

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“ Less is not always more” THE ARTIST’S STUDIO

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time, the message and execution of Baroque masterpieces is always refreshingly simple, in spite of all the frills and thrills, to ensure they appeal to a wide audience. They still tell stories, capitalise on the miracle of visual beauty and aspire to the spiritual. All characteristics which make this art movement eminently suited for our times.” Aerts is one of a team of four, who make up the theatre collective FC Bergman as ‘Callboys’ and films such as ‘Adem’. As a teenager, his favourite place to go was much less hip. He loved gazing at ‘The Coup de Lance’ in the Rubens gallery in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. “I would flee my student digs as often as I could and head to the museum where I would spend hours gaping at Rubens’ amazing artistry. His combination of dark religious subjects and swirling compositions really made a huge impression on me.” And you can see how big of an impression We know them both as actors and theatre direc- in ‘Het land Nod’, in which six figures are on a tors, but Damiaan De Schrijver and Stef Aerts vain quest to find a refuge for a Europe that is also share a passion for visual art. Although the in decline, in a true to life replica of the Rubens elder of the two men seems more cut out for gallery. It also features a replica of ‘The Coup the Baroque, the youngest of the two is more de Lance’, as the last of the paintings. The into it. You can clearly see the difference in their characters all feel very small in contrast with the interests and approach in ‘Het land Nod’ and grandeur of the art on the walls and the erratic “ Less is not ‘Atelier’. yet imperturbable progress of history. “Baroque wished to overwhelm people with majestic drama and we can certainly recognise “I’ve always been inspired by the Baroque”, Stef ourselves in this desire to overpower”, says always more” Aerts immediately confesses. “Perhaps because Aerts. “Grandiose imagery is the easiest and

THE ARTIST’S STUDIO it is such a theatrical movement? At the same simplest form to use for the story we want to

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 48 7/05/18 17:46 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 49 7/05/18 17:46 tell. How small individuals they stack on it: stoves, coffee pipe and Duchamp’s chamber- try to survive in a world that pots, plastic lobsters, pots of pot. They briefly sprout on stage, transcends them. While always paint, horsehair wigs and even a like visual flowers, only to be avoiding the pitfalls of the spec- fire extinguisher. ‘Atelier’ is like cut down equally suddenly. The tacle purely for the purpose of a jam-packed bag of tricks, with show also includes a highlight the spectacle, of course.” which the three men set to work, from the Baroque era, namely in a deadly serious and equally Rubens’ ‘The Elevation of the From pipe to chamberpot ironic way. Are they creating art? Cross’. “We quickly decided ‘Atelier’ is completely different. Or is this just a playground of that we would lift up Peter”, “Even if we had a relationship art history? De Schrijver laughs. “He is the with the Baroque, we tend to featherweight of the group.” make something that is more anti-Baroque in nature”, says “ I used to escape my The right chair Damiaan De Schrijver, the bon student digs to go see Like Rubens, who worked vivant of tg StAn. “I don’t mind Rubens’ ‘The Coup de with a team of apprentices in excesses on stage, because less Lance’ all the time.” his workshop, Aerts and De is not always necessarily more; — Stef Aerts Schrijver have been creating but sometimes less can also theatre productions for many be nothing. We find it more years, in a collective of actors, interesting however to disman- without a director. In that sense, tle the Baroque rather than “We are basically taking a closer they work according to the same celebrate it. ‘Atelier’ is a tribute, look at the actor’s workshop, on principle. “At the drama acad- but we also demolish art in it. stage”, De Schrijver explains. emy, it made sense to continue We also continuously question “Where does your creativity working with your class”, Aerts what we do.” originate? What is your lab? Is says. “In the first few years, we De Schrijver performs on it your room, your book cabinet, really were a group of friends, a rickety clapboard stage, the newspaper? Or is it just working together, going to the together with Peter Van den your brain, with all the impres- pub together. But now we no Eede, of De Koe and Matthias sions you stored there over the longer have the time to spend De Koning, of Discordia. The years?”. As you watch, you’ll hours discussing which chair stage has been kept purpose- notice all kinds of references to would work best on stage. We fully small, for all the props art history, including Magritte’s naturally divided the roles over

FC Bergman was inspired by the majestic Rubens gallery of Antwerp’s Royal Museum of Fine Arts for ‘Het land Nod’.

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 50 7/05/18 17:46 tell. How small individuals they stack on it: stoves, coffee pipe and Duchamp’s chamber- time: one of us focuses on tech- try to survive in a world that pots, plastic lobsters, pots of pot. They briefly sprout on stage, nique, the other on dramaturgy transcends them. While always paint, horsehair wigs and even a like visual flowers, only to be whereas I am in charge of the avoiding the pitfalls of the spec- fire extinguisher. ‘Atelier’ is like cut down equally suddenly. The visual aspect. It works more tacle purely for the purpose of a jam-packed bag of tricks, with show also includes a highlight efficiently this way for all of us.” the spectacle, of course.” which the three men set to work, from the Baroque era, namely De Schrijver laughs. “We still in a deadly serious and equally Rubens’ ‘The Elevation of the have rows about the chair! Each From pipe to chamberpot ironic way. Are they creating art? Cross’. “We quickly decided of us always has a different idea ‘Atelier’ is completely different. Or is this just a playground of that we would lift up Peter”, of what things should look like. “Even if we had a relationship art history? De Schrijver laughs. “He is the How do you externalise all these with the Baroque, we tend to featherweight of the group.” different tastes together? We 3 × YOU CAN’T make something that is more even argue about coffee cups!” anti-Baroque in nature”, says “ I used to escape my The right chair The stage is all about aesthetics, AFFORD TO MISS Damiaan De Schrijver, the bon student digs to go see Like Rubens, who worked according to De Schrijver. “I according to 3 × YOU CAN’T vivant of tg StAn. “I don’t mind Rubens’ ‘The Coup de with a team of apprentices in also always look at the right Stef Aerts excesses on stage, because less Lance’ all the time.” his workshop, Aerts and De fabric, the right colour, the right AFFORD TO MISS is not always necessarily more; — Stef Aerts Schrijver have been creating arrangement. I really enjoy the according to ¶ Rubens’ Return but sometimes less can also theatre productions for many material aspect of theatre. I think – Rubens House Damiaan De Schrijver be nothing. We find it more years, in a collective of actors, that I will spend the rest of my “The Rubens House is obviously interesting however to disman- without a director. In that sense, life fascinated with still lifes.” a place of pilgrimage for fans ¶ Sanguine | Bloedrood tle the Baroque rather than “We are basically taking a closer they work according to the same Aerts also understand this of the master’s work. You can – m HkA celebrate it. ‘Atelier’ is a tribute, look at the actor’s workshop, on principle. “At the drama acad- attention to material. “We used even visit his studio.” “Because I like what Luc but we also demolish art in it. stage”, De Schrijver explains. emy, it made sense to continue the original wall covering of Tuymans does.” We also continuously question “Where does your creativity working with your class”, Aerts the Rubens gallery on the walls ¶ Baroque in Situ what we do.” originate? What is your lab? Is says. “In the first few years, we in ‘Het land Nod’. This really “Because I continue to find ¶ Cokeryen De Schrijver performs on it your room, your book cabinet, really were a group of friends, matters to me.” That is why he them majestic, because they – Snijders & Rockox House a rickety clapboard stage, the newspaper? Or is it just working together, going to the sometimes misses the days when are only a short walk from each “This exhibition combines together with Peter Van den your brain, with all the impres- pub together. But now we no the Bergman team built their other and are the heart of the several of my interests: Eede, of De Koe and Matthias sions you stored there over the longer have the time to spend own sets. Nowadays they have city centre.” still life, good food and the De Koning, of Discordia. The years?”. As you watch, you’ll hours discussing which chair outsourced this task to the stage Snijders&Rockox House, stage has been kept purpose- notice all kinds of references to would work best on stage. We department of Het Toneelhuis. ¶ Paul Kooiker – Untitled which is one of my favourite fully small, for all the props art history, including Magritte’s naturally divided the roles over “The table has become the (Nude) – FOmU museums.” central feature in our workshop, “The foMU is hosting an exhi - among the scale models and bition of the work of the Dutch ¶ Baroque Murals moodboards. Our approach has photographer Paul Kooiker. “Yvon’s father, Narcisse Tordoir, become less “arty”. We cannot He makes explicit photos of is my friend. I once tried to afford to lose the physical con- female nudes, transforming have one of his larger works tact with iron fillings and wood everyone into a voyeur. I’m very installed in the cathedral but to shavings as this only makes your curious to see how Paul Kooiker no avail. The canon felt that it stage presence, your acting more will tackle the cliché of the did not express enough hope.” intimate.” Rubentian woman.” Or how both Aerts and De Schrijver are actually visual artists, disguised as actors. With or without a penchant for the Baroque.

FC Bergman was inspired by the majestic Rubens gallery of TheaTer Atelier 90 Antwerp’s Royal Museum of TheaTer Het land Nod 89 Fine Arts for ‘Het land Nod’.

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p eTer pAUL rUBeNs, ‘HeNrY iV iN THe BATTLe OF iVrY’. Rubens collaborated on this unfinished work with Pieter Snayers, who specialised in war scenes. In the background, you can see that Snayers had already painted his part, allowing Rubens to develop his part of the painting in the foreground.

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Rubens’ workshop is an impressive space. many copies which the workshop produced But what was life like in this workshop and sold. during Rubens’ time? Go back 400 years in We do not know much about many of time to the place where most of the master’s Rubens’ assistants and apprentices. One works were created. figure stands out from the anonymous crowd however: Anthony van Dyck. He went to Rubens’ workshop was much more than a work for Rubens at the age of seventeen. place of work. Here he trained young artists, Rubens always said Van Dyck was his best collaborated with other artists, received apprentice (“il meglior mio discepolo”). collectors and humanists, exchanging ideas with them. Rubens was in charge, he was the Co-creation boss, but his works were definitely a collabo- Rubens also collaborated with other estab- rative effort. lished painters. He regularly asked Jan I Brueghel or Frans Snijders to paint animals rUBeNs HOUse. Most of Rubens’ works Large, larger than life, extra large and flowers for him. In that case, the artists were created in this workshop. Rubens started out by making sketches worked as his equals, according to their for each of his works. He determined the own specialisations. The canvases or panel positions and postures of the figures on the paintings probably were transferred to var- canvas and drew certain details. Once he ious workshops. While such collaborations had settled on a composition, the people in were quite normal in Antwerp, they were his workshop set about developing a large quite unusual in Europe. Antwerp pioneered format rendering of his sketches. And large co-creation, in other words, before it became format often meant extra-large: for altar- hip. pieces, for example, the standard height was three to five metres. Signed by Rubens To ensure these commissions were Rubens always added the final touch. Every completed on time, Rubens had several work that left the workshops always received assistants who worked with his sketches, the ‘Rubens’ stamp of quality, regardless of according to his instructions. Depending on who worked on it. the painting, these assistants would do more p eTer pAUL rUBeNs, ‘HeNrY iV iN THe or less of the work. Rubens painted several BATTLe OF iVrY’. Rubens collaborated on of his paintings himself, but in some cases, this unfinished work with Pieter Snayers, who specialised in war scenes. In the the master did not apply a single brush- background, you can see that Snayers had stroke to the canvas. This is the case for the Rubens’ Return 65 already painted his part, allowing Rubens to develop his part of the painting in the foreground.

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 52 7/05/18 17:46 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 53 7/05/18 17:46 BAROQUE TALK

Prominent figures answer three questions about Baroque Antwerp. They all agree on one thing though: Baroque pops up everywhere in the city. In its buildings and residents, even in its dialect. And Rubens’ influence is undeniable.

What do you consider Name a typically Baroque What is the one thing in this typically Baroque? place or figure in Antwerp? programme you really want to see?

BerNArD DeWULF, AUTHOr

Excess. Theatre. Effect. Three Obviously, Rubens is a I will definitely be seeing keywords that sum up the Baroque icon. The fact that the ‘Michaelina’ in the mAS, Baroque. Baroque is a style, as adjective Rubentian made it ‘Sanguine | Bloedrood’ in the well as a lifestyle. Or a contem- into dictionaries is very telling. m HkA and ‘Paul Kooiker’ in porary style of expression, in fomu. art, including film, and in daily life.

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Rubens’ ‘The Elevation of the Hendrik Conscienceplein I definitely wouldn’t miss visit- Cross’ in the Cathedral of Our and St. Charles Borromeo’s ing the Rubens House, where Lady gives us an idea of how Church, which were built you can see paintings from impressive his altarpieces between 1615 and 1621. A private collections. I’m also were. Rubens painted plenty of magnificent seventeenth-cen- curious about the restoration very large paintings during his tury square in front of one of the portico and the garden lifetime, with the help of the of Europe’s most beautiful pavilion. I’m also looking assistants in his studio. Jesuit churches. Rubens was forward to the exhibition involved in the construction ‘Michaelina’, which Professor of this church as an architect, Van der Stighelen has been but he also painted several working on for several years. of the 39 ceiling paintings. It is also a great opportunity Unfortunately these were lost to visit the mAS again and during a fire in 1718. climb up to the roof to enjoy the stunning view of the city’s skyline.

1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 54 7/05/18 17:46 What do you consider Name a typically Baroque What is the one thing in this typically Baroque? place or figure in Antwerp? programme you really want BAROQUE TALK to see? erik AN keN, ciTY GUiDe Prominent figures answer three questions about I think the spirit of the You cannot afford to miss I find the very broad inter- Baroque is subsumed in the Rubens and the gem which pretation of the term ‘Baroque’ Baroque Antwerp. They all agree on one thing creed ‘When too much is never he contributed to build, in the programme of ‘Antwerp enough’. And Antwerp still has Antwerp’s St. Charles Baroque 2018’ very interesting. though: Baroque pops up everywhere in the city. In plenty of Baroque aficionados Borromeo’s Church. I definitely want to see the such as Dries van Noten in exhibitions by Tony Le Duc fashion and the interior archi- and Luc Tuymans and am also its buildings and residents, even in its dialect. And tect Gert Voorjans. Or bands very curious about the ‘Baroque like Muse and Antony and the Murals’. Rubens’ influence is undeniable. Johnsons (now Anohni) in international pop music.

keViN VOeTs, BUsiNess mANAGer H ermeseNsemBLe

What do you consider Name a typically Baroque What is the one thing in this typically Baroque? place or figure in Antwerp? programme you really want The horse: how Peter Paul The courtyard garden of the The ArtiCulAte research to see? Rubens painted horses is Rubens House along Wapper: festival at the Royal Academy definitely a typical charac- an Italian palazzo near the of Fine Arts and the Royal teristic of the Baroque for Scheldt. Conservatoire, with an exhibi- BerNArD DeWULF, AUTHOr me. The horse as the epitome tion about the punk movement, of movement, galloping, in the rediscovery of Baroque battle. And you can also hear music, which had been some- the acceleration of the cavalry what forgotten and the creation Excess. Theatre. Effect. Three Obviously, Rubens is a I will definitely be seeing in the music of such compos- of new work. And Muziektheater keywords that sum up the Baroque icon. The fact that the ‘Michaelina’ in the mAS, ers as Claudio Monteverdi for Transparant’s ‘Earth Diver’. Baroque. Baroque is a style, as adjective Rubentian made it ‘Sanguine | Bloedrood’ in the example. well as a lifestyle. Or a contem- into dictionaries is very telling. m HkA and ‘Paul Kooiker’ in porary style of expression, in fomu. art, including film, and in daily life. jOHAN peTiT, THe ATre mA ker

When I think of the Gothic Conscienceplein. Sitting under ‘Het Land Nod’ because it is a ANNe-mArie LOGAN, iNTerNAT iONAL rUBeNs experT style, I associate it with a that tree is so nice, with the performance without words. desire to dissolve into the pond to your right, facing Allowing everyone to create light, with the longing for sal- Antwerp’s most beautiful his or her own narrative. I will vation, whereas the Baroque façade, St. Charles Borromeo’s definitely also be going to see Rubens’ ‘The Elevation of the Hendrik Conscienceplein I definitely wouldn’t miss visit- tackles reality head on, with Church. And what’s more, you Efterklang and B.O.X. They Cross’ in the Cathedral of Our and St. Charles Borromeo’s ing the Rubens House, where beauty, with multiple colours, get to enjoy the best acoustics create a complete unique world Lady gives us an idea of how Church, which were built you can see paintings from in a very tangible, earthly in Antwerp for free! I just of sound, in which you can impressive his altarpieces between 1615 and 1621. A private collections. I’m also manner. It is all about living heard a violin play music by immerse yourself. I also want to were. Rubens painted plenty of magnificent seventeenth-cen- curious about the restoration life to the full. the soundtrack composer Nino recommend everyone to see our very large paintings during his tury square in front of one of the portico and the garden Rota. He played such a beauti- piece. ‘Lulletje’ may not sound lifetime, with the help of the of Europe’s most beautiful pavilion. I’m also looking ful, melancholic, upbeat song like a Baroque title, but the assistants in his studio. Jesuit churches. Rubens was forward to the exhibition and I loved the way the notes music is heavenly and timeless, involved in the construction ‘Michaelina’, which Professor spiralled around the square, the story contemporary. How to of this church as an architect, Van der Stighelen has been and how the light pierced survive in these turbulent and but he also painted several working on for several years. through the foliage of the tree confusing times? of the 39 ceiling paintings. It is also a great opportunity and there I was, with my bike Unfortunately these were lost to visit the mAS again and in hand. Time stopped and for during a fire in 1718. climb up to the roof to enjoy a moment I was transported the stunning view of the city’s by this lovely melody... skyline.

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pAUL rOBBrecHT, A rcHiTecT

As a teenager I read Robert The interior of Saint Charles Red can be quite bold! Venturi’s book ‘Complexity and Borromeo’s Church is simply I’m convinced that Contradiction in Architecture’ breath-taking. I remember ‘Sanguine | Bloedrood’ will (1966). Venturi focuses on the that I was almost unable to offer a compelling insight into bold geometrics that are copied contain my joy the first time I the goings on in the contem- in Baroque architecture. He visited it. That is how infec- porary art world. I’m also inspired me to explore Baroque tious it is. curious to see the latest addi- art in more detail. tions to the Rubens House’s collection. Also, ‘Outlandish’ by graindelavoix. I’ve been interested in Thomas More for many years, as well as in the Baroque, utopia, and architec- tural models. What will Björn Schmelzer of graindelavoix choose to highlight in this musical performance?

pATrick DeN ecker, r eDHerriNG

Wim HeNDerickx, cOmpOsiTeUr

I have many nice childhood St. Charles Borromeo’s Handel’s ‘Messiah’: an memories of the Rubens exhibi- Church, the Rubens House amazing work and a fabulous tion in 1977. and the statue of Rubens in conductor and musicians. Groenplaats. The Christmas concert of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra in the stunning St. Charles Borromeo’s Church. Muziektheather Transparant’s ‘Earth Diver’. I’ve collaborated several times with director Wouter Van Looy in the past, so I’m quite curious about this performance.

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As a teenager I read Robert The interior of Saint Charles Red can be quite bold! Bernini’s ‘Ecstasy of Saint St. Charles Borromeo’s Church ‘Baroque Book Design’ in Venturi’s book ‘Complexity and Borromeo’s Church is simply I’m convinced that Theresa’. I think it is one of is fabulous. It is also very Museum Plantin-Moretus, an Contradiction in Architecture’ breath-taking. I remember ‘Sanguine | Bloedrood’ will the most striking examples typical of Antwerp, I think. exhibition which focuses on (1966). Venturi focuses on the that I was almost unable to offer a compelling insight into of the Baroque philosophy, Antwerpers always love a bit the splendour of Baroque-era bold geometrics that are copied contain my joy the first time I the goings on in the contem- to no longer show an ideal of of spectacle and they always books, how they were published in Baroque architecture. He visited it. That is how infec- porary art world. I’m also man, as was the case in the have an answer to everything. with great care, in collaboration inspired me to explore Baroque tious it is. curious to see the latest addi- Renaissance, but to focus I think the fact that the façade with artists such as Rubens. I art in more detail. tions to the Rubens House’s instead on the individual and of St. Charles Borromeo’s regularly visit Plantin-Moretus. collection. Also, ‘Outlandish’ his individual emotions. Saint Church is eight metres higher The garden alone is worth the by graindelavoix. I’ve been Theresa of Ávila was a Spanish than the church behind it is visit. interested in Thomas More for mystic and she describes very symbolic. And the church many years, as well as in the her experience of God as an has excellent acoustics for Baroque, utopia, and architec- angel thrusting an arrow into religious music. I have given tural models. What will Björn her chest. Bernini showed many nice concerts there in Schmelzer of graindelavoix the instant when the arrow the past twenty years, with the choose to highlight in this is drawn out. The overall Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. musical performance? impression is very dramatic and sensuous. Half mystic, half erotic. pATrick DeN ecker, r eDHerriNG ÖZNUr kArAcA, AUTHOr

The harpsichord: the preferred The façade of Saint Charles I’m interested in ‘Michaelina’, keyboard instrument during the Borromeo’s Church in Hendrik this ‘mystery’ of the Baroque. Antwerp was the place Conscienceplein. There is a Baroque. There were more What a ballsy guy Caravaggio Dare I say it? I find Antwerp I definitely intend to pop into to go for this type of instrument, direct link between this church women painters than we was! Murder, attacks, dec- dialect very Baroque! There the Rubens House. And to see with internationally-acclaimed and Rubens of course. often think. And of course adence, extravagance... he is so much drama in Antwerp ‘Michaelina. Baroque’s Leading instrument builders such as the ‘Sanguine | Bloedrood’. The succeeded in portraying dialect, the emphasis on Lady’ in the mAS. Ruckers family. confrontation between the old drama in the most stunning certain vowels, the flexibility and the new. The Baroque is way. It is easy to see why he that this dialect requires... In always present, its dramatic is often called the Anti-Christ that sense, it is very different aspect always enhanced. of painting. He also purpose- from Limburg dialect for fully chose to portray some example, which I consider of the darkest stories in the almost mannerist, whereas Bible or of mythology, the West Flemish dialect sounds incredulity of Saint Thomas, Gothic to me. Ghent dialect David holding Goliath’s head, is the Renaissance... The Wim HeNDerickx, c OmpOsiTeUr Bacchus and Narcissus... I like turbo dialects, a mix of Dutch to compare his work to some and Arabic, are typical of of the films and series I love post-Modernism, they are a so much, like David Lynch, I have many nice childhood St. Charles Borromeo’s Handel’s ‘Messiah’: an pastiche of styles. When in The Sopranos or Breaking memories of the Rubens exhibi- Church, the Rubens House amazing work and a fabulous Antwerp, spend some time Bad. What a knack he had tion in 1977. and the statue of Rubens in conductor and musicians. on a terrace and listen to the for portraying the dark, ugly, Groenplaats. The Christmas concert of people around you, if you extravagant, sometimes the Antwerp Symphony really want to experience a inexplicable side of human Orchestra in the stunning St. Baroque day! nature, compelling you to gaze Charles Borromeo’s Church. as is mesmerised... Muziektheather Transparant’s ‘Earth Diver’. I’ve collaborated several times with director Wouter Van Looy in the past, so I’m quite curious about this performance.

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ATHOs BU reZ, pHOTOGr ApHer

Baroque clearly is anything but Antwerp’s churches. Every I don’t go too exhibitions, pared down as an art movement. element of the architecture the theatre or performances They even decorated utensils for and the interior is seamlessly as much as I would like to. daily use, like a glass or a spoon, coordinated. The sculptures Not because I don’t want to, like a sculpture. I also noted that and how the light falls on but because I tend to forget people were very curious about them, the combinations of and because I suck at time other cultures and the exotic in different types of marble... The management. But this time, I this period. It was the era of the epitome of extravagance and really intend to pay attention Wunderkammer. Rich people opulence, which completely to this. And I’ll be visiting collected the most bizarre overwhelms you when you ‘Michaelina’, because I hadn’t objects which the merchant realise what amazing crafts- ever heard of her and because ships brought home for them. men they must have had at I think it looks really worth- At the time, shells were almost the time. They created things while. And Fabre and ‘Het as expensive as a car is today. that we will never be able to land Nod’. There was even a king who had rival, without all our modern a zoo full of exotic animals at comforts. his court.

mAGALi eLALi AND B ArT kiGGeN, cOFFeekLATcH

The still life. Baroque hunt- Most people associate the We are very curious to visit ing scenes, flower still lifes, Baroque with Peter Paul the home and workshop market and kitchen scenes Rubens. He really left his of Frans Snijders in the are an inexhaustible source of mark on the city, with the renovated Snijders&Rockox inspiration for our own photos. impressive Rubens House House. The idea ties in with Frans Snijders, Hans Bollongier, and his work in St. Charles our online interview magazine Pieter Claesz, Frans Hals and Borromeo’s Church. coffeeklatch.be, for which Maria van Oosterwijck taught we visit creative people in us to study lifeless objects, their own home. And also: to light them carefully and to ‘Baroque Burez’ because of the combine them in magnificent lavish sets which attest to his compositions. amazing imagination.

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ATHOs BU reZ, pHOTOGr ApHer jULie HeNDrickx, empLOY ee AmUZ

Baroque clearly is anything but Antwerp’s churches. Every I don’t go too exhibitions, The sound of a harpsichord. Amuz. Once a church, now The concert of counter-tenor pared down as an art movement. element of the architecture the theatre or performances That is what life must have a concert hall. It continues Jakub Józef Orlinski and Il They even decorated utensils for and the interior is seamlessly as much as I would like to. sounded like at the court of to fuel my imagination. The Pomo d’Oro. Orlinski is a rising daily use, like a glass or a spoon, coordinated. The sculptures Not because I don’t want to, Louis xiV. Sam Dillemans’s church first opened its doors star in the world of ancient like a sculpture. I also noted that and how the light falls on but because I tend to forget paintings in the series of ‘After to the faithful in 1618. So we music. He is also a break- people were very curious about them, the combinations of and because I suck at time old masters’. The paintings are celebrating its 400th anni- dancer, which is a great way of other cultures and the exotic in different types of marble... The management. But this time, I look more abstract because versary this year! And while getting rid once and for all of this period. It was the era of the epitome of extravagance and really intend to pay attention of the different layers of paint the simple façade is a com- the clichéd idea that classical Wunderkammer. Rich people opulence, which completely to this. And I’ll be visiting but their Baroque expressive- bination of the Renaissance, music is only for old people. collected the most bizarre overwhelms you when you ‘Michaelina’, because I hadn’t ness is still just as intense. His the early Baroque and the Also ‘Le Grand Ballet’ by Zonzo objects which the merchant realise what amazing crafts- ever heard of her and because series of portraits of boxers local tradition, the interior Compagnie. The performances ships brought home for them. men they must have had at I think it looks really worth- also have that Baroque look is a stunning example of the of Zonzo Compagnie prove that At the time, shells were almost the time. They created things while. And Fabre and ‘Het and feel. Baroque style. adults also find productions for as expensive as a car is today. that we will never be able to land Nod’. children magical. There was even a king who had rival, without all our modern a zoo full of exotic animals at comforts. his court.

jAN FABre, A rTisT

Baroque intuitively makes me Without a doubt, the genius Luc Tuymans has selected a few think of the celebration of the that was Rubens. I still refer to of my smaller blood drawings, body, the desire for the carnal. this paintings for the staging from the late Seventies, for his The staging and the dramatic and light design of my own exhibition. I’m curious to see use of light. theatre productions. Thanks to how he will present them in my father, who introduced me relation to other works. I also to Rubens and who taught me intend to see ‘Experience Traps’. how to copy his drawings and I think William Forsythe is an mAGALi eLALi AND B ArT kiGGeN, cOFFeekLATcH paintings. As my father always artist among choreographers used to say: “Drawing after and an amazing performer. masters teaches you to under- The still life. Baroque hunt- Most people associate the We are very curious to visit stand the art of drawing”. He ing scenes, flower still lifes, Baroque with Peter Paul the home and workshop introduced me to the passion market and kitchen scenes Rubens. He really left his of Frans Snijders in the for the image and for the body. are an inexhaustible source of mark on the city, with the renovated Snijders&Rockox inspiration for our own photos. impressive Rubens House House. The idea ties in with Frans Snijders, Hans Bollongier, and his work in St. Charles our online interview magazine Pieter Claesz, Frans Hals and Borromeo’s Church. coffeeklatch.be, for which Maria van Oosterwijck taught we visit creative people in us to study lifeless objects, their own home. And also: to light them carefully and to ‘Baroque Burez’ because of the combine them in magnificent lavish sets which attest to his compositions. amazing imagination.

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Viki GeUNes, cH eF, r esTAUrANT ’T ZiLT e

Marble, thanks to the strong The Great Market Square. Food is my thing and Tony design effect and the black and Le Duc’s photography adds white, which only makes it another dimension to it. look bolder, even threatening. ‘Baroque Murals’, because Versace, for the prints and graffiti is the new Baroque. the quintessentially Baroque And I would love to take a symbols, which they incorpo- walk with ‘B’rok d’Anvers’. rate in their designs in a very contemporary manner. Ennio Morricone, for his film music, which is both subtle and powerful, and his incredibly detailed compositions.

cAsper cLAUseN , mUsiciAN eFTerkLANG

FATiNHA rAmOs, iLLUsTrATOr

I was introduced to Peter Paul St. Charles Borromeo’s All the concerts in St. Charles Rubens’ work in art school in Church, Grote Markt and Borromeo’s Church. The Portugal. I think his work is Rubens. combination of the music beautiful, the sensuality, the use with the ambience is heav- of colour, his portraits. He has enly. ‘Paul Kooiker’ in fomu. really influenced me as an artist. And ‘Sanguine | Bloedrood’. I noticed that Luc Tuymans hardly uses any red in his work.

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Viki GeUNes, cH eF, r esTAUrANT ’T ZiLT e peTer HOLVO eT-HANsseN, pO eT

Marble, thanks to the strong The Great Market Square. Food is my thing and Tony I also associate the Baroque I think the most typically The ‘Michaelina’ exhibition. design effect and the black and Le Duc’s photography adds with negative connotations: Baroque place in Antwerp has I like discovering (largely) white, which only makes it another dimension to it. the lavish and excessive to be St. Charles Borromeo’s unknown masters. The exhi- look bolder, even threatening. ‘Baroque Murals’, because opulence, the flexed muscles Church and (above all) bition and talks about Punk in Versace, for the prints and graffiti is the new Baroque. in Rubens’ work… But I think Conscienceplein. It was a Antwerp with the art expert the quintessentially Baroque And I would love to take a the liberating exuberance, ‘Baroque’ spot in the Sixties, Johan Pas: with The Kids (the symbols, which they incorpo- walk with ‘B’rok d’Anvers’. the triumphant joie de vivre and the place to meet during leading Flemish Seventies punk rate in their designs in a very and the mad intensity are also the punk era, for music/art/ band) and even... Peter ‘HH’. contemporary manner. Ennio positive. poetry, for resistance, imagi- Morricone, for his film music, nation and freedom. Another which is both subtle and power- church I like quite a lot is the ful, and his incredibly detailed somewhat sinister St. James’s compositions. Church (I think it really is inhabited by Rubens’ spirit) and the magnificent St. Paul’s cAsper cLAUseN , mUsiciAN eFTerkLANG Church. So I will definitely be taking one of the ‘church walks’.

I’m a relatively noob when Pieter Theuns of B.O.X is a I’m curious to see ‘Baroque it comes to the world of the major Baroque figure, both Burez’ in the mAS and the Baroque. I immediately for me and for Efterklang. He Paul Kooiker exhibition in NADiA NAVeAU, A rTisT associate it with Bach. I find taught us a lot about Antwerp, fomu. I also intend to come it fascinating to see how his Baroque music and the many to Antwerp in December music continues to live on Baroque instruments. especially for Bach’s after all these years. I find the ‘Weihnachtsoratorium’. And of Movement. Draping. The Calvary next to St. Paul’s Jeremy Deller’s work for synthesizer versions of his course, I look forward to our Diagonals. Chiaroscuro. Church. It’s like a living ‘Experience Traps’, the music by Wendy Carlos, which opening concert with B.O.X. Energy. La Fontana dei theatre, with sculptures on ‘Five Car Stud’ in the she calls ‘Switched-On Bach’ Quattro Fiumi. All these words pedestals which lead you to ‘Sanguine | Bloedrood’ exhibi- fantastic. Like Lars von Trier’s are synonymous of the work the cross. tion, Michaelina Wautier in the film ‘Nymphomaniac’, where of Bernini, whom I greatly mAS. And Atelier by tg StAn, the three voices of Bach’s fugue admire. His sculptures are De Koe and Maatschappij symbolise three types of lovers. always dynamic, always in Discordia. The studio continues movement, and they exude to be a place that fires the great power. imagination. I myself find it a very important and uniquely personal space. FATiNHA rAmOs, iLLUsTrATOr

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The kick-off for the cultural city festival ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018: Rubens inspires’ is on 1 June. Dive into the fun, just like a Baroque bon vivant, and enjoy every bit of the grand opening weekend.

1, 2 & 3 June

From Friday 1 June through Sunday 3 June, you will be immersed in the world of the Baroque, with a whirl of parties, performances, concerts and exhibitions. Celebrate the Baroque in the mAS, and discover all there is to know about ‘Michaelina’, the leading lady of 17th-century painting. Marvel at the beauty of the international masterpieces in the exhibition ‘Sanguine | Bloedrood’ in m HkA. The curator is none other than Antwerp’s greatest living painter, Luc Tuymans. Leap into ‘Experience Traps’, the Middelheim Museum’s summer exhibition, from Jeremy Deller’s ‘Sacrilege’. Look forward to a modern Baroque festival, with surprising artworks, interactive performances, food trucks and DJs.

Don’t forget to pop into one of Antwerp’s monumental churches and be blown away by the magnificent Baroque altarpieces. Rediscover the Rubens House, and marvel at the megalomaniac street art of the ‘Baroque Murals’. Finally, round off the Baroque weekend in style with free concerts Sunday evening on the Hendrik Conscienceplein by the Danish indie rock band Efterklang, along with the Antwerp music collective Baroque Orchestration X (B.O.X) and the choir of Tutti Fratelli.

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The kick-off for the cultural city festival Without Peter Paul Rubens, there would have been no ‘Antwerp ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018: Rubens inspires’ is on 1 June. Baroque 2018’. Wherever you go in the city, you will come across the Dive into the fun, just like a Baroque bon vivant, and master and his work. Nevertheless, one venue is even more special enjoy every bit of the grand opening weekend. than all the others. It is the Rubens House, of course, the city palace in Wapper where Rubens lived and worked for 25 years.

1, 2 & 3 June From 1 June

From Friday 1 June through Sunday 3 June, you A rare selfie will be immersed in the world of the Baroque, with One of the highlights of the Rubens House col- a whirl of parties, performances, concerts and lection is Rubens’ ‘Self-Portrait’. The master was exhibitions. Celebrate the Baroque in the mAS, and clearly not a fan of selfies, as he painted only discover all there is to know about ‘Michaelina’, four self-portraits in his entire career. In each the leading lady of 17th-century painting. Marvel of them, he portrays himself as a self-conscious, at the beauty of the international masterpieces in distinguished gentleman, and never as a painter. the exhibition ‘Sanguine | Bloedrood’ in m HkA. The This past year, Rubens’ ‘Self-Portrait’ underwent curator is none other than Antwerp’s greatest liv- a thorough restoration. The original layer of paint ing painter, Luc Tuymans. Leap into ‘Experience is once again visible, and the panel has revealed were built when he worked and lived in this artist’s Traps’, the Middelheim Museum’s summer exhibi- several details that had remained hidden for many residence. He even designed them. They are currently tion, from Jeremy Deller’s ‘Sacrilege’. Look for- centuries. See the original Rubens, and learn being restored to their former glory. Watch the restor- ward to a modern Baroque festival, with surprising more about the secrets that surfaced during the ers at work, and climb the scaffolds with a guide. Get artworks, interactive performances, food trucks restoration. up and close personal with Rubens’ architecture. and DJs. The thrill of anticipation extra The master moves along with the times. Don’t forget to pop into one of Antwerp’s mon- The Rubens House is associated with many Thanks to augmented reality, you will be able to see umental churches and be blown away by the famous names. In the past, prominent statesmen what the garden screen looked like in Rubens’ era, magnificent Baroque altarpieces. Rediscover the and artists would visit the master. Nowadays, the in the 1940s and just before the restoration started. Rubens House, and marvel at the megalomaniac museum boasts an impressive art collection, and Hotspots located around the site will tell you more street art of the ‘Baroque Murals’. Finally, round it is continually adding works, including Bowie’s about the Latin mottos and other visual details on the off the Baroque weekend in style with free concerts Tintoretto, Van Dyck’s ‘Self-Portrait’ and Titian’s portico. Discover the secrets of the recently restored Sunday evening on the Hendrik Conscienceplein ‘Portrait of a Lady and her Daughter’. For the ‘Self-Portrait’, as well as about the new works that are by the Danish indie rock band Efterklang, along Baroque festival, this collection will be supple- on loan in the museum galleries. with the Antwerp music collective Baroque mented by several other masterpieces. They will Orchestration X (B.O.X) and the choir of Tutti include works by Rubens and his apprentices, ❧ Rubens House Fratelli. which will be returning for the very first time ever Wapper 9 – 11, +32 3 201 15 55 to the place where they were originally painted, ❧ Closed on Monday and public holidays ❧ Check www.antwerpbaroque2018.be for the entire since their departure from the workshop. ❧ € 10 / € 8 programme and the right times. Free with THe BArOQUe FesTiVAL cArD Look over our shoulders ❧ Further information about the fringe activities at The Baroque garden screen and the garden www.rubenshuis.be pavilion both date from Rubens’ era, and they

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Prominent contemporary Belgian and international artists engage in a dialogue with the historic Baroque in several exhibitions. The retrospective of the work of Michaelina Wautier, a contemporary of Peter Paul Rubens, is also a world premiere.

Michaelina: Baroque’s Leading Lady 1 June — 2 Sept

This exhibition is a world premiere: the first retro- to specialise in one theme, she excelled in all spective of almost the entire oeuvre of Michaelina disciplines and in all formats. She also portrayed Wautier (Mons, 1604 – 1689). Her exceptional herself, as one of the two only women in a proces- talent and versatility made her particularly excep- sion of nude men, in her monumental ‘Triumph of tional in her time, when women artists were very Bacchus’, which is just one of the many highlights rare. While most women artists of her day tended of this exhibition. Michaelina is also the only figure to look us squarely in the eyes, challenging us with her gaze. Interest in her work has exploded ever since Katlijne Van der Stighelen, an art historian and the curator of this exhibition, discovered (or re-discovered) Michaelina’s work about 20 years ago.

extra If you would like to immerse yourself in Michaelina’s world, book a ‘Walk and Talk’, and hear the curator share her passion about this artist’s work. Take a Sunday tour, or participate in ‘The Ultimate Baroque’ summer workshop. The organisers have also kept children in mind, with the ‘Mysterious Michaelina’ and ‘Magical colours’ workshops, along with an activity book for families.

A collaboration of the Rubens House and the MAS.

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 66 7/05/18 17:47 EXHIBITIONS Sanguine | Bloedrood. Luc Tuymans on Baroque Prominent contemporary Belgian and international 1 June — 16 Sept artists engage in a dialogue with the historic Baroque in several exhibitions. The retrospective of the work Curator Luc Tuymans shares his own uniquely extra There is something for everyone in personal vision of the Baroque by establishing a connection with this exhibition in the m HkA! Join of Michaelina Wautier, a contemporary of Peter Paul dialogue between the work of Baroque masters the free Walk and Talk on Thursday afternoon Rubens, is also a world premiere. with contemporary artists. He has selected works or Sunday afternoon, flex your creative muscles based on their intensity and artistic execution, in the first-floor salon or discover art during the with the discerning eye of a maker gazing upon summer workshops. the work of other makers. The outcome is an unprecedented exhibition that pairs work by A collaboration between the M HKA and the Royal Caravaggio, Francisco de Zurbarán, Anthony van Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Dyck, Jordaens and Rubens with that of Michäel Borremans and contemporary masters, such as On ❧ m HkA | Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Michaelina: Baroque’s Leading Lady Kawara, Zhang Enli, Takashi Murakami, Sigmar Leuvenstraat 32, +32 3 260 99 99 1 June — 2 Sept Polke and Tobias Rehberger. The highlight is ‘Five ❧ Closed on Monday and public holidays Car Stud’, a key work in the career of Edward ❧ € 10 / € 5 Kienholz (1927 – 1994). The life-size installation Free with THe BArOQUe FesTiVAL cArD This exhibition is a world premiere: the first retro- to specialise in one theme, she excelled in all depicts the castration of a young African-American ❧ Further information about the fringe activities at spective of almost the entire oeuvre of Michaelina disciplines and in all formats. She also portrayed in the Deep South, as punishment for having had www.muhka.be Wautier (Mons, 1604 – 1689). Her exceptional herself, as one of the two only women in a proces- sex with a white girl. The work, which was first talent and versatility made her particularly excep- sion of nude men, in her monumental ‘Triumph of shown at Documenta 5 in Kassel, will be displayed tional in her time, when women artists were very Bacchus’, which is just one of the many highlights in a specially-designed tent as part of this exhibi- rare. While most women artists of her day tended of this exhibition. Michaelina is also the only tion. Even after 40 years, the work has retained all figure to look us squarely in the eyes, challeng- of its expressive power, symbolism and urgency. ing us with her gaze. Interest in her work has exploded ever since Katlijne Van der Stighelen, an art historian and the curator of this exhibition, discovered (or re-discovered) Michaelina’s work about 20 years ago. extra If you would like to immerse yourself in Michaelina’s world, book a ‘Walk and Talk’, and hear the curator share her passion about this artist’s work. Take a Sunday tour, or participate in ‘The Ultimate Baroque’ summer workshop. The organisers have also kept children in mind, with the ‘Mysterious Michaelina’ and ‘Magical colours’ workshops, along with an activity book for families.

A collaboration of the Rubens House and the MAS.

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 66 7/05/18 17:47 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 67 7/05/18 17:47 Baroque Burez Focus: Baroque From 1 June splendour in a

The young Antwerp photographer and artist domestic setting Athos Burez (b. 1987) rose to fame very quickly as a portrait and fashion photographer and From 1 June photo journalist. In his very first solo exhibition in the walking boulevard of the mAS, he will share The intimate Museum Mayer van den Bergh his own unique interpretation of various Baroque will highlight the splendour of the Baroque with genres. Although his work always reflects the objects from the astonishing collection of the influence of painting, Burez feels that a camera passionate art collector Fritz Mayer van den gives him more artistic freedom than brushes. Bergh (1858 – 1901). Discover Baroque sculp- The photo series consists of 30 photographs tures, drawings and paintings by such artists and installations, including still life, portraits, as Cornelis de Vos and Jacob Jordaens using landscapes and interiors. Burez succeeds in the free walking-tour brochure or the Antwerp creating his own unique Baroque visual culture Museum App. in the form of a contemporary collage, with the lavishness and diversity that is so typical of the ❧ Mayer van den Bergh Museum Baroque. Lange Gasthuisstraat 19 +32 3 338 81 88 ❧ mAs Boulevard, Hanzestedenplaats 1 ❧ Closed on Monday and public holidays +32 3 338 44 00 ❧ 10€ / € 5 ❧ Closed on Monday and public holidays Free with THe BArOQUe FesTiVAL cArD ❧ Free

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 68 7/05/18 17:47 Experience Traps receTAs UrBANAs 1 June — 23 Sept One of the more unique artworks in ‘Experience Traps’ is the green sculpture The Middelheim Museum is a magnificent park by the Recetas Urbanas artist collective. where you can walk, hang out, have a picnic and Usually people do not immediately enjoy sculpture. This year’s summer exhibition associate greenery in the city with the has plenty of surprises in store, with the works of term ‘urban jungle’. And yet that is Belgian and international contemporary artists, exactly what these Spanish artists sought all of whom were inspired by the Baroque. In the to create with this sculpture. Thanks to Baroque era, the upper classes liked to transform them, De Coninckplein, a square in the their gardens into unique places, with mazes, heart of the station neighbourhood, will be fountains, grottos and more. The hipsters of those transformed into one green artwork. days would even undertake long journeys to see Recetas Urbanas proceeds from the such gardens with their own eyes. Now it’s your Baroque tradition, using works ranging turn to see how contemporary artists interpret from triumphal Rubensian arches and this Baroque legacy. city decorations for its design. Ultimately, The exhibition includes works by William however, the locals have full control of the Forsythe, Bertrand Lavier, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, outcome. The collective’s starting premise Monika Sosnowska, Ryoji Ikeda, Dennis is deliciously brilliant and simple: the Tyfus, Andra Ursuta, Adrien Tirtiaux, Ulla von quality of life is better in greener cities. Brandenburg, Gelitin, Bruce Nauman, Recetas The participation of locals increases Urbanas, Louise Lawler, Mike Bouchet, Spencer involvement in the project, as well as Finch and Jeremy Deller. Baroque Burez Focus: Baroque engagement in the neighbourhood. extra Build magnificent palazzos, castles in the From 1 June splendour in a extra Parts of the green sculpture will sky or your own fantasy. Check out the many holi- subsequently be permanently integrated into day workshops for children in July and August, or The young Antwerp photographer and artist the neighbourhood. domestic setting the week-long camp in the museums of Antwerp. Athos Burez (b. 1987) rose to fame very quickly You could even combine a creative workshop with as a portrait and fashion photographer and From 1 June ❧ De Coninckplein one of the family tours. photo journalist. In his very first solo exhibition ❧ Free in the walking boulevard of the mAS, he will share The intimate Museum Mayer van den Bergh ❧ Further information about the fringe ❧ Middelheim Museum, Middelheimlaan 61 his own unique interpretation of various Baroque will highlight the splendour of the Baroque with activities at www.middelheimmuseum.be +32 3 288 33 60, www.middelheimmuseum.be genres. Although his work always reflects the objects from the astonishing collection of the ❧ See also Festival Royal p. 100 ❧ Closed on Monday and public holidays influence of painting, Burez feels that a camera passionate art collector Fritz Mayer van den ❧ Free gives him more artistic freedom than brushes. Bergh (1858 – 1901). Discover Baroque sculp- The photo series consists of 30 photographs tures, drawings and paintings by such artists and installations, including still life, portraits, as Cornelis de Vos and Jacob Jordaens using landscapes and interiors. Burez succeeds in the free walking-tour brochure or the Antwerp creating his own unique Baroque visual culture Museum App. in the form of a contemporary collage, with the lavishness and diversity that is so typical of the ❧ Mayer van den Bergh Museum Baroque. Lange Gasthuisstraat 19 +32 3 338 81 88 ❧ mAs Boulevard, Hanzestedenplaats 1 ❧ Closed on Monday and public holidays +32 3 338 44 00 ❧ 10€ / € 5 ❧ Closed on Monday and public holidays Free with THe BArOQUe FesTiVAL cArD ❧ Free

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 68 7/05/18 17:47 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 69 7/05/18 17:47 Diasporalia Jan Fabre From 1 June 3 July — 10 Dec

The artist Koen Theys will install twelve empty Jan Fabre has created three new altarpieces for beds in the Cathedral’s chapel of Saint Joseph. the Amuz early music centre in the former St. On each bed you can see the meagre possessions Augustine Church. He adhered to the same brief of a refugee. Usually just a few bits and bobs, that Rubens, Jordaens and Van Dyck received which fit in a coat pocket or rucksack. They in 1628. Rubens painted the canvas for the high symbolise the only souvenirs refugees could take altar, while Jordaens and Van Dyck created works with them of their home country as they fled for the altars in the left and right naves, respec- for unknown horizons. Diasporalia makes you tively. The three works have since become part of think about the plight of refugees and the illu- the permanent collection of the Royal Museum sion of hope and faith in a better future. Theys of Fine Arts Antwerp. The resulting gap will be uses emotions, themes and techniques that are finally filled during Antwerp Baroque 2018. reminiscent of the Baroque to achieve this. The artwork is designed to move spectators, illustrat- ❧ St. Augustine’s Church/AmUZ, ing the transience of our mortal life. The artist Kammenstraat 81, +32 3 202 46 69 draws on the Baroque tradition of Rubens and ❧ Open from 3/7 until 9/8 on Monday from 2 pm until his contemporaries, using chiaroscuro and red, 8 pm and from Tuesday until Friday from 2 pm until glue, gold and bronze colour accents. 5 pm From 3/9 open only on Monday from 2 pm until 8 pm ❧ Cathedral of Our Lady, Handschoenmarkt, ❧ Free +32 3 213 99 51 ❧ Further information about the additional opening ❧ € 6 / € 4 events www.amuz.be/janfabre ❧ Free with THe BArOQUe FesTiVAL cArD ❧ You can find information about the Cathedral’s opening hours at www.antwerpbaroque2018.be Naughty Kids. Punk, Icons and Clashes in Antwerp 1978–2018 6 — 22 Sept

Forty years the figurehead of Antwerp’s punk movement – The Kids – burst on the scene, ‘Naughty Kids’ examines how post and post punk inspired new inroads in the visual arts, music, fashion, literature and graphic design. The exhibition also highlights how this diY approach is still relevant today. Will there be a next time? With an opening concert by The Kids and a seminar on ‘The Paradox of Punk’.

❧ Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Venusstraat 34 B, +32 3 213 71 00 ❧ Free ❧ See also ArTicULATe 2018, p. 78

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 70 7/05/18 17:47 Diasporalia Jan Fabre Paul Kooiker From 1 June 3 July — 10 Dec Untitled (Nude)

The artist Koen Theys will install twelve empty Jan Fabre has created three new altarpieces for 29 June — 7 Oct beds in the Cathedral’s chapel of Saint Joseph. the Amuz early music centre in the former St. On each bed you can see the meagre possessions Augustine Church. He adhered to the same brief The Dutch photographer Paul Kooiker (b. 1964) uses the extra Make your exhibition of a refugee. Usually just a few bits and bobs, that Rubens, Jordaens and Van Dyck received nude in art as the starting premise for his photos. His work visit even more special by going which fit in a coat pocket or rucksack. They in 1628. Rubens painted the canvas for the high is about ‘looking’, about voyeurism, shame and distance. He on an exciting quest with the symbolise the only souvenirs refugees could take altar, while Jordaens and Van Dyck created works examines his own gaze as a photographer, as well as the gaze SmARTbox. The museum also with them of their home country as they fled for the altars in the left and right naves, respec- of the spectator, who will be bewildered by his in-your-face hosts holiday workshops for for unknown horizons. Diasporalia makes you tively. The three works have since become part of photo series. ‘Untitled (Nude)’ is his first exclusive foray in children between the ages of 1 and think about the plight of refugees and the illu- the permanent collection of the Royal Museum the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Baroque, drawing on 12, artist talks and workshops for sion of hope and faith in a better future. Theys of Fine Arts Antwerp. The resulting gap will be the Baroque of Rembrandt and Rubens for inspiration. It is adults. uses emotions, themes and techniques that are finally filled during Antwerp Baroque 2018. also his first major project in Belgium. reminiscent of the Baroque to achieve this. The artwork is designed to move spectators, illustrat- ❧ St. Augustine’s Church/AmUZ, ❧ FOmU | Photo Museum, Waalsekaai 47, +32 3 242 93 00 ing the transience of our mortal life. The artist Kammenstraat 81, +32 3 202 46 69 ❧ Closed on Monday draws on the Baroque tradition of Rubens and ❧ Open from 3/7 until 9/8 on Monday from 2 pm until ❧ € 10 / € 7 his contemporaries, using chiaroscuro and red, 8 pm and from Tuesday until Friday from 2 pm until Free with THe BArOQUe FesTiVAL cArD glue, gold and bronze colour accents. 5 pm From 3/9 open only on Monday from 2 pm ❧ Further information about the fringe activities at until 8 pm www.fotomuseum.be ❧ Cathedral of Our Lady, Handschoenmarkt, ❧ Free +32 3 213 99 51 ❧ Further information about the additional opening ❧ € 6 / € 4 events www.amuz.be/janfabre ❧ Free with THe BArOQUe FesTiVAL cArD ❧ You can find information about the Cathedral’s opening hours at www.antwerpbaroque2018.be Naughty Kids. Punk, Icons and Clashes in Antwerp 1978–2018 6 — 22 Sept

❧ Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Venusstraat 34 B, +32 3 213 71 00 ❧ Free ❧ See also ArTicULATe 2018, p. 78

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 70 7/05/18 17:47 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 71 7/05/18 17:47 Baroque Book Design 28 Sept — 6 Jan 2019

Balthasar Moretus guided the Plantin printing extra Don’t miss the ‘Special days’: the open- house throughout the 17th century, when the ing weekend with workshops and guided tours, Baroque movement was flourishing. This art Designer’s Day with various designers, Author’s movement had a major influence on the appear- Day with Dirk Imhof and Goran Proot. The week- ance of the books that were published at that end will conclude with Collector’s Day, which will time. Moretus worked with prominent artists for be attended by collectors of old books. Redopapers his book designs, commissioning illustrations (Start-up of the Year - Unizo) always develops from Peter Paul Rubens and others for various surprising workshops. Design your own title page publications. or create your own book. But why? Who are the innovators in today’s book profession? The exhibition ‘Baroque Book ❧ Plantin-Moretus Museum, Design’ in Museum Plantin-Moretus highlights the Vrijdagmarkt 22, +32 3 221 14 50 passion that publishers have for their profession, ❧ Closed on Monday and public holidays paying tribute to the publishers who inspired ❧ € 8 / € 6 artists, printers and graphic designers to create Free with THe BArOQUe FesTiVAL cArD quality products, both then and now. Be even more ❧ Further information about the fringe activities at inspired by their passion during the many talks, www.museumplantinmoretus.be workshops and workshop visits that the museum will organise.

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 72 7/05/18 17:47 Cokeryen – Photo Film Food: Tony Le Duc/Frans Snijders 28 Sept — 13 Jan 2019

Tony Le Duc, Belgium’s most famous food photographer, is the first artist to be invited to exhibit his work Restaurant promotion: in the renovated and expanded Snijders & Rockox A culinary & creative cross-pollination! House. It is easy to see why the former home of the Instead of just looking at Tony Le Duc’s artist of Frans Snijders would provide such a perfect photos, why not taste the food? For the canvas for his work. Both gentlemen, the contem- duration of the exhibition, 15 Antwerp porary photographer Le Duc and the 17th-century chefs will add their own, contemporary painter Snijders, succeed in elevating food to the interpretations of recipes from Magirus’ status of art in a deliciously Baroque manner. cookbook to their menus. You will have Le Duc draws on the 17th-century cookbook by three months to enjoy Baroque cuisine Antonius Magirus, from the time that people were in the present day, with all of your still eating quails, larks, finches and other small birds. senses. Antwerp chefs add their own personal, contemporary twist to the recipe, and Le Duc photographs the result. ParticiPating chefs: Seppe Nobels A mouth-watering combo! (Graanmarkt 13), Johan Segers (’t Fornuis), Viki Geunes (’t Zilte), Dennis Baroque Book Design extra Children can supercharge their senses Broeckx (L’épicerie du Cirque), Bert-Jan during the holidays, as ‘Taste’ takes a special twist in Michielsen (The Butcher’s Son), Geert 28 Sept — 6 Jan 2019 the museum’s kitchen and children’s workshop. They Weyn (Schnitzel), Michael Rewers (Bistro can also discuss what they saw with their guide and du Nord), Wouter Keersmaekers (De participate in activities related to food and drink. Schone van Boskoop), Davy Schellemans Balthasar Moretus guided the Plantin printing extra Don’t miss the ‘Special days’: the open- (Veranda), Jöran De Backer (Sir house throughout the 17th century, when the ing weekend with workshops and guided tours, ❧ Snijders & Rockox House, Keizerstraat 12, Anthony Van Dijck), Olivier De Vinck Baroque movement was flourishing. This art Designer’s Day with various designers, Author’s +32 3 201 92 50 (Kommilfoo), Thierry Thys (Nuance), movement had a major influence on the appear- Day with Dirk Imhof and Goran Proot. The week- ❧ Closed on Monday and public holidays Frederic Chasto & Adriana Zafiris (Soma) ance of the books that were published at that end will conclude with Collector’s Day, which will ❧ € 8 / € 6 and many others… time. Moretus worked with prominent artists for be attended by collectors of old books. Redopapers Free with THe BArOQUe FesTiVAL cArD his book designs, commissioning illustrations (Start-up of the Year - Unizo) always develops ❧ Further information about the fringe activities at ❧ See www.antwerpbaroque2018.be from Peter Paul Rubens and others for various surprising workshops. Design your own title page www.snijdersrockoxhuis.be for the entire list. publications. or create your own book. But why? Who are the innovators in today’s book profession? The exhibition ‘Baroque Book ❧ Plantin-Moretus Museum, Design’ in Museum Plantin-Moretus highlights the Vrijdagmarkt 22, +32 3 221 14 50 passion that publishers have for their profession, ❧ Closed on Monday and public holidays paying tribute to the publishers who inspired ❧ € 8 / € 6 artists, printers and graphic designers to create Free with THe BArOQUe FesTiVAL cArD quality products, both then and now. Be even more ❧ Further information about the fringe activities at inspired by their passion during the many talks, www.museumplantinmoretus.be workshops and workshop visits that the museum will organise.

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 72 7/05/18 17:47 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 73 7/05/18 17:47 MUSIC

Baroque music, contemporary music, music for people of all ages. Music in churches, museums, libraries, from loudspeakers, on the street. Solo performances, orchestral manoeuvres, music and art, music on a brand- new organ, music you make yourself. Let the sounds of the city become the rhythm of your life.

Graindelavoix: Outlandish 6 — 8 July

The artist’s collective graindelavoix is convinced performed as a live soundtrack for the film. ‘We that the Baroque started much earlier in Antwerp filmed the first part in the Atlantic, in a storm. than originally thought: with the publication of The whole cast almost drowned’, recounts Björn Thomas More’s book Utopia in 1516, which takes Schmelzer of graindelavoix. ‘We almost failed to place primarily in Antwerp. Graindelavoix pre- get the boat into port, because the waves were so sents the premiere of a film/concert in Antwerp’s high’. It was a crazy adventure, which paved the most Baroque church, St. Charles Borromeo. way for this unforgettable film/concert. The collective’s bizarre, alternative take on More’s Utopia was filmed primarily in Antwerp ❧ Saint Charles Borromeo’s Church, and in the Atlantic. The protagonists are alle- Hendrik Conscienceplein 6 gorical figures, in the style of Laurel and Hardy, ❧ 6, 7 and 8/7 at 10.30 pm resulting in deliciously old-fashioned slapstick ❧ € 15 cinema. The magnificent polyphony of Thomas More’s contemporaries Ashewell and Browne is

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 74 7/05/18 17:47 MUSIC Baroque&roll! Play Urban Baroque Bowl

Baroque music, contemporary music, music for people with the Plutomobiel Various dates of all ages. Music in churches, museums, libraries, Various dates Better known as Scale by the inside crowd, the from loudspeakers, on the street. Solo performances, MC, beatboxer and theatre maker Kris Strybos, What do you mean, Baroque is boring? If you has embarked on a new mission. He is building a orchestral manoeuvres, music and art, music on a brand- think that Baroque music is just for old people special installation in which everyone can experi- new organ, music you make yourself. Let the sounds of and dusty churches, you’re wrong. Baroque is the ence music in a new, more tangible way. He was new bling! This summer, the Plutomobiel will be inspired by the lavishness and powerful emotions the city become the rhythm of your life. stopping in various Antwerp squares, treating of some of the leading 17th-century Baroque bystanders to some mind-blowing Baroque&roll. masters. The graffiti artist Bird (Bram De Ceurt) If you are between the ages of 6 and 12, put on will be decorating the Urban Baroque Bowl. your dopest gold chain and play, dance and sing Whether you are an art lover or just happen to along. Your parents, friends and neighbours walk by, step into our installation for a unique Graindelavoix: Outlandish are all welcome to attend the concert. Get ready musical trip. to perform, together with three real Baroque 6 — 8 July musicians! ❧ Various locations throughout the city. Check www.antwerpbaroque2018.be The artist’s collective graindelavoix is convinced performed as a live soundtrack for the film. ‘We ❧ Various locations throughout the city. ❧ Free that the Baroque started much earlier in Antwerp filmed the first part in the Atlantic, in a storm. Check www.antwerpbaroque2018.be than originally thought: with the publication of The whole cast almost drowned’, recounts Björn ❧ Free Thomas More’s book Utopia in 1516, which takes Schmelzer of graindelavoix. ‘We almost failed to place primarily in Antwerp. Graindelavoix pre- get the boat into port, because the waves were so sents the premiere of a film/concert in Antwerp’s high’. It was a crazy adventure, which paved the most Baroque church, St. Charles Borromeo. way for this unforgettable film/concert. The collective’s bizarre, alternative take on More’s Utopia was filmed primarily in Antwerp ❧ Saint Charles Borromeo’s Church, and in the Atlantic. The protagonists are alle- Hendrik Conscienceplein 6 gorical figures, in the style of Laurel and Hardy, ❧ 6, 7 and 8/7 at 10.30 pm resulting in deliciously old-fashioned slapstick ❧ € 15 cinema. The magnificent polyphony of Thomas More’s contemporaries Ashewell and Browne is

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 74 7/05/18 17:47 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 75 7/05/18 17:47 1618 | BeFOre 7 hiG hliGhts & BeYOND La Pellegrina Scherzi Musicali Various dates ‘La Pellegrina’ is the musical transposition Rubens has inspired Amuz to develop a proof six allegorical, mythical scenes. The inter- gramme in the margins of ‘Antwerp Baroque media or musical intermezzos became even more 2018’. This year, the international music centre famous than the actual play for which they were has plenty to celebrate, which is why it chose the written. Nicolas Achten, a vocalist and lutenist, theme 1618 | before & beYond. The year 1618 will conduct the 50 singers and musicians of was a turning point for the music centre, as it Scherzi Musicali, helping them weave a dream- was then that the St. Augustine Church, which is like musical narrative for the audience. now used as the concert hall for Amuz, was built. ❧ 16/8, 8 pm, AmUZ It was also a musical crossroads, marking the decline of polyphony and the first, tentative steps of the early Baroque. Claudio Monteverdi: L’Orfeo From August through December, Amuz will I Fagiolini & The English Cornett and condense the past and present in many centuries Sackbut Ensemble of music history, from early monophonic music to Johann Sebastian Bach and all composers ‘L’Orfeo’ tells the story of Orpheus, who loses in between, including Hildegard von Bingen, his beloved bride Eurydice. Overcome by endless Guillaume de Machaut, Orlandus Lassus and sorrow, he journeys to the underworld to reclaim Claudio Monteverdi. Gregorian chant, polyph- her, but one moment’s hesitation is all it takes for ony, opera, religious cantatas, instrumental Orpheus’s wife to be trapped forever in the realm music – the most sublime music will be per- of Hades. Orpheus vacillates between love and formed by world-class Belgian and international loss, as illustrated here in Claudio Monteverdi’s ensembles, as well as by emerging talented young powerful and emotional dialogue between the musicians. orchestra and singers. In addition to the busy concert programme, ❧ 26/8, 8 pm, Théâtre Bourla Amuz will also organising a wide range of talks, lectures and a children’s programme. Visit Amuz. be for the list of events. Le haute-contre de Lully & grand orchestre Reinoud Van Mechelen & a nocte temporis ❧ AmUZ, Kammenstraat 81, +32 3 292 36 80 ❧ Ticket prices vary, depending on the concert. The tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ❧ Visit www.amuz.be for the entire programme of Baroque orchestra ‘A nocte temporis’ selected 1618 | BeFOre & BeYOND. the most beautiful arias and instrumental music from the operas of Lully and his peers. The concert spotlights the haute-contre (not to be confused with the countertenor), a very rare type of high tenor voice. ❧ 12/10, 8 pm, AmUZ

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 76 7/05/18 17:47 1618 | BeFOre 7 hiG hliGhts Folia’s and romanesca’s Jordi Savall & Rolf Lislevand & BeYOND La Pellegrina Scherzi Musicali Jordi Savall and Rolf Lislevand are living Various dates legends of the world of early music. Savall has ‘La Pellegrina’ is the musical transposition introduced audiences to the viola da gamba, Rubens has inspired Amuz to develop a proof six allegorical, mythical scenes. The inter- and the Norwegian lutenist Lislevand continues gramme in the margins of ‘Antwerp Baroque media or musical intermezzos became even more to inspire audiences around the world with his 2018’. This year, the international music centre famous than the actual play for which they were technical virtuosity. In this concert, they will has plenty to celebrate, which is why it chose the written. Nicolas Achten, a vocalist and lutenist, explore the inexhaustible repertoire for their theme 1618 | before & beYond. The year 1618 will conduct the 50 singers and musicians of instruments, with music by Diego Ortiz, Tobias was a turning point for the music centre, as it Scherzi Musicali, helping them weave a dream- Hume, Marain Marais and de Saint-Colombe was then that the St. Augustine Church, which is like musical narrative for the audience. (père & fils). now used as the concert hall for Amuz, was built. ❧ 16/8, 8 pm, AmUZ ❧ 6/12, 9 pm, AmUZ It was also a musical crossroads, marking the decline of polyphony and the first, tentative steps of the early Baroque. Claudio Monteverdi: L’Orfeo Illustri colleghi da San Marco From August through December, Amuz will I Fagiolini & The English Cornett and Oltremontano Sackbut Ensemble condense the past and present in many centuries Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: of music history, from early monophonic music Rosenkranzsonaten The soprano Sophie Thoen, the tenor Vincent to Johann Sebastian Bach and all composers ‘L’Orfeo’ tells the story of Orpheus, who loses Rachel Podger & friends Lesage and the musicians of Oltremontano will in between, including Hildegard von Bingen, his beloved bride Eurydice. Overcome by endless transport you to Venice, which was the centre of Guillaume de Machaut, Orlandus Lassus and sorrow, he journeys to the underworld to reclaim Baroque music in the 17th century. Experience Rachel Podger will perform excerpts from one Claudio Monteverdi. Gregorian chant, polyph- her, but one moment’s hesitation is all it takes for the sounds and music of Venice in the proof the most famous Baroque works for violin and ony, opera, religious cantatas, instrumental Orpheus’s wife to be trapped forever in the realm gramme entitled ‘Illustri Colleghi da San Marco’. basso continuo: Biber’s ‘Rozenkranzsonaten’. It music – the most sublime music will be per- of Hades. Orpheus vacillates between love and The early Baroque works of Grandi, Castello, is interesting to note that each sonata requires a formed by world-class Belgian and international loss, as illustrated here in Claudio Monteverdi’s Scarani and Monteverdi express a wide range of different scordatura or tuning of the violin. ensembles, as well as by emerging talented young powerful and emotional dialogue between the emotions, telling a story that goes straight to the ❧ 16/11, 8 pm, AmUZ musicians. orchestra and singers. heart. In addition to the busy concert programme, ❧ 26/8, 8 pm, Théâtre Bourla ❧ 9/12, 3 pm, AmUZ Amuz will also organising a wide range of talks, G.F. Handel: Messiah lectures and a children’s programme. Visit Amuz. Academy of Ancient Music be for the list of events. Le haute-contre de Lully & grand orchestre Reinoud Van Mechelen & a nocte temporis ‘Messiah’ was already a hit during Händel’s ❧ AmUZ, Kammenstraat 81, +32 3 292 36 80 lifetime. The Academy of Ancient Music and its ❧ Ticket prices vary, depending on the concert. The tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen and his inspiring conductor Richard Egarr have an unri- ❧ Visit www.amuz.be for the entire programme of Baroque orchestra ‘A nocte temporis’ selected valled command of the entire range of emotions 1618 | BeFOre & BeYOND. the most beautiful arias and instrumental music and aspects of ‘Messiah’, from moving restraint from the operas of Lully and his peers. The to the majestic and rousing ‘Hallelujah’ chorus. concert spotlights the haute-contre (not to be With its imposing interior and stunning collec- confused with the countertenor), a very rare type tion of Baroque paintings, St. Paul’s is the perfect of high tenor voice. backdrop for this concert. ❧ 12/10, 8 pm, AmUZ ❧ 17/11, 8 pm, église Saint-Paul

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 76 7/05/18 17:47 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 77 7/05/18 17:47 ARTICULATE RESEARCH DAYS 2018 Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen Koninklijk Conservatorium Ontwerp Laetitia Geerts, student Grafisch Ontwerp: Antwerpen

ArTicULATe 2018. Everything changes, nothing perishes 6 Sept — 26 Oct

ArtiCulAte is an annual festival for research discussion with experts on ‘the paradox of punk’ in and art. In addition to focusing on the classical connection with the opening of the ‘Naughty Kids’ Baroque era, ArtiCulAte 2018 will work with and exhibition on 6 September. interpret music, theatre, poetry and visual art from this period. Emerging and experienced speakers, ARTICULATE is organised by the Royal Conservatoire performers and curators will share their interpre- Antwerp and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts tations of the Baroque era in various locations. Antwerp (AP University College), in cooperation On 30 September, leading musicians and with HERMESensemble, the Study Centre for Flemish Baroque specialists will gather in Antwerp for a Music, Research Group LABO XIX-XX, AMUZ, deSin- high mass of Flemish Baroque music. On 25 and gel, the University of Antwerp and KOMASK. 26 October, the programme will include literature and music. The actor Lucas Vandervorst will ❧ 30/9 AmUZ, Kammenstraat 81 unravel Ovid’s influence on Antwerp’s Baroque ❧ 25 – 26/10, world premiere new Stabat Mater painters, while students perform their own ver- creation Hermesensemble, Royal Conservatoire – sion of Vondel’s ‘Lucifer’. On 25 October, you can deSingel, Desguinlei 25 attend a world premiere. The HermeSensemble ❧ 6/9, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp – has commissioned a completely new interpre- Lange Zaal, Venusstraat 34b tation of the traditional Stabat Mater from the ❧ Further information about the festival, tickets Italian composer Paolo Galli. We are eager to and the new Stabat Mater creation at hear this new contemporary version for violin, www.articulateresearchdays.be viola, cello, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion and ❧ See also expo ‘Naughty Kids’, p. 70 mezzo soprano by HermeSensemble, together with deCompagnie. You can also attend a panel

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 78 7/05/18 17:47 Wednesday Sounds Theater De Spiegel & ARTICULATE 2018 | In the footsteps De Veerman: Curiosa of the Duartes 25 — 26 Aug & 3 — 6 Jan monthly, on Wednesday There is a cabinet in the room. There is a door in RESEARCH (except in July and August) the cabinet. There is a drawer behind the door. There is a box in the cabinet. What’s in the box? Welcome to the Curiosa Wunderkammer, where The Duarte family, one of the most musical fam- children three years of age and younger can dis- ilies in 17th-century Antwerp, lived just around cover the wondrous world of the Baroque as they DAYS 2018 the corner from Rubens. Although they were play. Join your little one for a fun experience, as originally Jewish, music is a universal language you touch and hold all kinds of oddities, art cab- Koninklijke Academie voor in a world teeming with religious tensions. Schone Kunsten Antwerpen inets, drawings and music. Look at them, listen Gaspar and his three daughters regularly gave Ontwerp: Laetitia Geerts, student Grafisch Ontwerp Laetitia Geerts, student Grafisch Ontwerp: to them. Musicians will introduce you to music Koninklijk Conservatorium city concerts in the Duartes’ city palace. In 2018, and the instruments from the era of Rubens. Did Antwerpen you can become familiar with the Duartes and you know that Rubens adored curiosities? He their music in the Vleeshuis Museum and the even had a separate room built for his collection, Snijders&Rockox House (where you can see a along with a garden for all the treasures he music room like Gaspar Duarte’s). Promising brought home from his travels to Italy, France, young musicians and established musicians will Spain and England. ArTicULATe 2018. take us on a tour in the footsteps of the Duartes – from the city palaces of Antwerp to the English ❧ hetpaleis, Theaterplein court, from Dutch gardens to Spanish castles, Everything changes, nothing perishes ❧ 25 – 26/8 at 10 am, 2 pm and 4 pm and more. 6 Sept — 26 Oct ❧ € 10 / € 5 ❧ Vleeshuis Museum, ❧ DE Studio, Maarschalk Gerardstraat 4 ArtiCulAte is an annual festival for research discussion with experts on ‘the paradox of punk’ in Vleeshouwersstraat 38, +32 3 292 61 01 ❧ 3 – 6/1 and art. In addition to focusing on the classical connection with the opening of the ‘Naughty Kids’ ❧ € 5 ❧ Further details and times soon available at Baroque era, ArtiCulAte 2018 will work with and exhibition on 6 September. ❧ Tip : You can see a music room just like Gaspar www.antwerpbaroque2018.be interpret music, theatre, poetry and visual art from Duarte’s in the Snijders&Rockox House. See expo this period. Emerging and experienced speakers, ARTICULATE is organised by the Royal Conservatoire ‘Cokeryen’, p. 73 performers and curators will share their interpre- Antwerp and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts tations of the Baroque era in various locations. Antwerp (AP University College), in cooperation On 30 September, leading musicians and with HERMESensemble, the Study Centre for Flemish Baroque specialists will gather in Antwerp for a Music, Research Group LABO XIX-XX, AMUZ, deSin- high mass of Flemish Baroque music. On 25 and gel, the University of Antwerp and KOMASK. 26 October, the programme will include literature and music. The actor Lucas Vandervorst will ❧ 30/9 AmUZ, Kammenstraat 81 unravel Ovid’s influence on Antwerp’s Baroque ❧ 25 – 26/10, world premiere new Stabat Mater painters, while students perform their own ver- creation Hermesensemble, Royal Conservatoire – sion of Vondel’s ‘Lucifer’. On 25 October, you can deSingel, Desguinlei 25 attend a world premiere. The HermeSensemble ❧ 6/9, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp – has commissioned a completely new interpre- Lange Zaal, Venusstraat 34b tation of the traditional Stabat Mater from the ❧ Further information about the festival, tickets Italian composer Paolo Galli. We are eager to and the new Stabat Mater creation at hear this new contemporary version for violin, www.articulateresearchdays.be viola, cello, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion and ❧ See also expo ‘Naughty Kids’, p. 70 mezzo soprano by HermeSensemble, together with deCompagnie. You can also attend a panel

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 78 7/05/18 17:47 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 79 7/05/18 17:47 Natashia Kelly and Sleep. Max Richter Brice Soniano 7 — 8 Sept

2 Sept Enjoying a concert from the comfort of your bed. This is in itself is pretty unusual. But An interesting combo of a vocalist and a bassist, spending the night in the Cathedral of Our Lady who pair contemporary music with Baroque and attending a concert? That is something music. Natashia and Brice start from early altogether more unique. Especially if you bear Baroque music, drawing inspiration from Henry in mind that this concert will only be performed Purcell and Giovanni Pergolesi. They experiment once in Belgium. with repetition, duration, variation, texture, Max Richter’s composition ‘Sleep’ is a “per- sound and tonality to create something new and sonal lullaby for a world’s that gone mad”. The poetic. A full-on experience, during which the composer was inspired by Bach’s Goldberg audience can walk around and experience both Variations, which were supposedly composed for the location and the music. the harpsichordist of a sleepless count. ‘Sleep’ Natashia Kelly and Brice Soniano will give is a contemporary, minimalist treatment of a several mini-concerts in various locations from Baroque piece of music. ‘Sleep’ is both unusual 4 August through 1 September in various loca- and grandiose in scope. You are invited to lie tions. The doors to the stunning Nottebohm down on one of the many camp beds and close Room, the most beautiful room in the Hendrik your eyes during the eight-hour concert. Conscience Heritage Library, will swing open on 2 September at 11 am. ❧ Cathedral of Our Lady, Handschoenmarkt ❧ 7 — 8/9, from midnight until 8 am ❧ Nottebohm Room, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, Hendrik Conscienceplein 4, +32 3 338 87 10 ❧ 2/9 at 11 am ❧ € 5 ❧ Other concert dates at www.antwerpbaroque2018.be

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 80 7/05/18 17:47 Natashia Kelly and Sleep. Max Richter Sound in Motion presents Brice Soniano 7 — 8 Sept From Bach To The Future

2 Sept Enjoying a concert from the comfort of your Various dates bed. This is in itself is pretty unusual. But An interesting combo of a vocalist and a bassist, spending the night in the Cathedral of Our Lady Baroque music has evolved over time. This concert 16 September. Three hours of sheer enjoyment, who pair contemporary music with Baroque and attending a concert? That is something series of the Sound in Motion production platform thanks to Bach, Barry Guy (one of the key fig- music. Natashia and Brice start from early altogether more unique. Especially if you bear shows you how and whereto Baroque music is ures in European free improvisation) and Maya Baroque music, drawing inspiration from Henry in mind that this concert will only be performed evolving in an entertaining manner. Homburger. Purcell and Giovanni Pergolesi. They experiment once in Belgium. with repetition, duration, variation, texture, Max Richter’s composition ‘Sleep’ is a “per- Jordi, Johann & John 23 September. The Polish guitarist Raphaël sound and tonality to create something new and sonal lullaby for a world’s that gone mad”. The ‘What does an incredible genius like Johann Roginski will perform live on stage, inspired by poetic. A full-on experience, during which the composer was inspired by Bach’s Goldberg Sebastian Bach have in common with the influen- Bach, Purcell and Coltrane. audience can walk around and experience both Variations, which were supposedly composed for tial jazz innovator John Coltrane? Both of these the location and the music. the harpsichordist of a sleepless count. ‘Sleep’ composers come from a tradition of improvisa- 30 September. Mary Jane Leach will rework the Natashia Kelly and Brice Soniano will give is a contemporary, minimalist treatment of a tion. Anyone who thinks that improvisation was music of Bach and other Baroque composers into several mini-concerts in various locations from Baroque piece of music. ‘Sleep’ is both unusual invented by jazz musicians could use a lesson or music for specific spaces and instruments. 4 August through 1 September in various loca- and grandiose in scope. You are invited to lie two in music history’. These words of wisdom tions. The doors to the stunning Nottebohm down on one of the many camp beds and close from the Baroque expert Jordi Savall demonstrate 6 October. The violinist Aisha Orazbayeva Room, the most beautiful room in the Hendrik your eyes during the eight-hour concert. the inextricable link between Baroque music and will perform a solo concert of compositions by Conscience Heritage Library, will swing open on improvisation. They form a perfect starting prem- Parmegiani, Bach and Telemann, including a 2 September at 11 am. ❧ Cathedral of Our Lady, Handschoenmarkt ise for this concert series. completely different interpretation of ‘the spoken ❧ 7 — 8/9, from midnight until 8 am word’, with the writer and performer Tim Etchells. ❧ Nottebohm Room, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Evolution × 5 Library, Hendrik Conscienceplein 4, The series comprises five concerts: perhaps the ❧ Vleeshuis Museum, +32 3 338 87 10 brief introduction will whet your appetite. Vleeshouwersstraat 38, ❧ 2/9 at 11 am +32 3 292 61 01 ❧ € 5 8 September. Charlemagne Palestine will kick ❧ 8, 23, 30/9 and 6/10 at 8 pm, 16/9 at 6 pm ❧ Other concert dates at off this concert series with a unique carillon ❧ € 15 / € 10 / € 5 in pre-sale; www.antwerpbaroque2018.be concert, an exhibition of visual work and a solo € 18 / € 13 / € 10 at the box office piano concert.

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Excellence and intimacy. The musicians of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra will leave their new residence, the Elisabeth Centre, to provide a compelling performance in the former Amuz Baroque church. The programme will include vibrant and poetic compositions, with sonatas for oboe and bassoon by Händel, Telemann and other Baroque composers. It will be a perfect ending to your weekend.

❧ AmUZ, Kammenstraat 81 RedHerring: ❧ 14/10 at 3 pm Beguinage concerts ❧ € 17 Various dates

Since 2014, the RedHerring Baroque Ensemble Inauguration: Organ and its conductor, Patrick Denecker, have given several Baroque concerts in the intimate setting of St. Norbert’s Church of St. Catherine’s Church in Antwerp’s beguinage. The outstanding level of the performers and 20 — 21 Oct the excellent acoustics combine to create an amazing experience, both vocal and instrumen- Starting in October, prick up your ears in the tal. During the Baroque festival, the programme Dageraadplaats, and you are likely to hear will centre around music from the era of Rubens. fragments of celestial music emanating from It will also include a concert linking 17th-century St. Norbert’s Church. A new Bach-style organ music to Sir Anthony van Dyck, whose sisters is currently being installed in the church. lived in the beguinage. Devoting attention to What an impressive organ it is. The four-metre your eyes as well as your ears, the organisers will wide, ten-metre tall instrument will be stained provide a brief explanation of the paintings of a mahogany red and finished with gold leaf. Jacob Jordaens and the school of Rubens in the The new organ was inspired by the Northern collection located in the church of the beguinage. Netherlandish/Northern German Baroque organ, making it the perfect instrument for playing ❧ Saint Catharine’s Church Beguinage, 17th and 18th-century music, as well as jazz and Rodestraat 39 tango. Come check it out on 20 and 21 October. ❧ 13 — 14/10 at 3 pm Canzoni Italiani (with Jan Van Elsacker, tenor) ❧ Saint Norbert’s Church, Dageraadplaats ❧ 8 — 9/12 at 3 pm Van Dyck’s music. ❧ 20/10 at 4 pm & 21/10 from 11 am until 6 pm English music to Sir Anthony’s ears ❧ Free (with Lore Binon, soprano) ❧ € 20 / € 15

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 82 7/05/18 17:47 Chamber music Retteketet Antwerp Symphony concert: Antwerp Muziekkabinet Orchestra: Christmas Symphony Orchestra 24 — 25 Nov concert

14 Oct ‘Retteketet Muziekkabinet’ is the excellent and 20 — 22 Dec mellifluous name of a two-day early music festi- Excellence and intimacy. The musicians of the val, where you can learn more about music and Imagine the scene: you are strolling through the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra will leave their instruments from the era of Rubens. Although snow on the Hendrik Conscienceplein on a win- new residence, the Elisabeth Centre, to provide no musical background is required, it does help. ter’s evening and, suddenly, you hear heavenly a compelling performance in the former Amuz Beginners can take a workshop on ‘pommers, voices emanate from the St. Charles Borromeo Baroque church. The programme will include dulcians and crumhorns’. More experienced Church. You can’t resist the temptation to go in vibrant and poetic compositions, with sonatas musicians can participate in the workshop given and listen. This year, the Antwerp Symphony for oboe and bassoon by Händel, Telemann and by Kate Clark, an expert on the wooden trans- Orchestra’s Christmas concerts will once again other Baroque composers. It will be a perfect verse flute. Another option would obviously be light up the dark days of winter in the time ending to your weekend. to just sit down and listen to 17th-century music leading up to Christmas. from Brussels, as it used to be performed by ❧ AmUZ, Kammenstraat 81 vocalists and musicians during family gatherings ❧ Saint Charles Borromeo’s Church, Hendrik RedHerring: ❧ 14/10 at 3 pm or in the local pub. If you feel like flexing your Conscienceplein 6 ❧ € 17 musical muscles, think about perform a com- ❧ 20, 21 — 22/12, at 8 pm Beguinage concerts position during the ‘open mic’ or sing along to ❧ € 33 / € 10 Tielman Susato’s ‘Ierste Muziekboexken’. The Various dates museum is also organising an early music market with plenty of lovely products on offer, with Since 2014, the RedHerring Baroque Ensemble Inauguration: Organ exhibitors ranging from instrument builders to and its conductor, Patrick Denecker, have given music stores and bookshops. several Baroque concerts in the intimate setting of St. Norbert’s Church of St. Catherine’s Church in Antwerp’s beguinage. ❧ Vleeshuis Museum, Vleeshouwersstraat 38 and The outstanding level of the performers and 20 — 21 Oct Saint James’s Church, Lange Nieuwstraat 73 the excellent acoustics combine to create an ❧ 24 — 25/11, continuous amazing experience, both vocal and instrumen- Starting in October, prick up your ears in the ❧ € 15 / € 5 tal. During the Baroque festival, the programme Dageraadplaats, and you are likely to hear will centre around music from the era of Rubens. fragments of celestial music emanating from It will also include a concert linking 17th-century St. Norbert’s Church. A new Bach-style organ music to Sir Anthony van Dyck, whose sisters is currently being installed in the church. lived in the beguinage. Devoting attention to What an impressive organ it is. The four-metre your eyes as well as your ears, the organisers will wide, ten-metre tall instrument will be stained provide a brief explanation of the paintings of a mahogany red and finished with gold leaf. Jacob Jordaens and the school of Rubens in the The new organ was inspired by the Northern collection located in the church of the beguinage. Netherlandish/Northern German Baroque organ, making it the perfect instrument for playing ❧ Saint Catharine’s Church Beguinage, 17th and 18th-century music, as well as jazz and Rodestraat 39 tango. Come check it out on 20 and 21 October. ❧ 13 — 14/10 at 3 pm Canzoni Italiani (with Jan Van Elsacker, tenor) ❧ Saint Norbert’s Church, Dageraadplaats ❧ 8 — 9/12 at 3 pm Van Dyck’s music. ❧ 20/10 at 4 pm & 21/10 from 11 am until 6 pm English music to Sir Anthony’s ears ❧ Free (with Lore Binon, soprano) ❧ € 20 / € 15

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 82 7/05/18 17:47 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 83 7/05/18 17:47 THEATRE, DANCE AND MUSIC THEATRE Well-known names, emerging talent and ambitious amateurs will have the time of their life in the magnificent world of the Baroque. Baroque is loud and expressive, inspiring you to think and making you laugh. Above all else, however, every moment is intended for your absolute enjoyment.

B’rok d’Anvers Various dates

Learn more about this secret society and their revolutionary plan to turn Antwerp into the world’s most Baroque city. Follow them on an expedition around the city, and discover it from a Baroque perspective. Join the members of the Great Baroque Brotherhood on a walk through the city, and find out more about their plans: Baroque everywhere! You will gradually be introduced to their network, and you will assist them with their small and large interventions in the city’s squares and streets. They will make you want to embrace the Baroque and never let go. Would you like to join this brotherhood of Baroque rebels or rebellious Barockers? B’rok d’Anvers is a theatrical narrative walk, which was developed in cooperation with De Kleine Expeditie. If you like to walk through Antwerp, and if you have done this often, you may remember other theatrical walks created by this group, including the evening openings in the Antwerp zoo, the performances at Wintervuur or the walks in Schoonselhof.

❧ 2 — 3/6, 5— 8/7, 12 — 15/7, 19 — 22/7, 26 — 29/7 ❧ Performances at 10 am, 10.30 am, 11 am, 1.30 pm, 2 pm, 2.30 pm, 3 pm, 3.30 pm ❧ Duration: 90 minutes ❧ € 10 ❧ In Dutch. English on request

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 84 7/05/18 17:47 THEATRE, DANCE Theater FroeFroe: AND MUSIC THEATRE Tropoi XXL Well-known names, emerging talent and ambitious amateurs Various dates will have the time of their life in the magnificent world of the Baroque. Baroque is loud and expressive, inspiring you to “Master?”, the little boy enquires, “why does music make people happy or sad?” The alchemist think and making you laugh. Above all else, however, every Castiglio has no bloomin’ idea, but he is deter- moment is intended for your absolute enjoyment. mined to discover the secret language of music and make everybody happy. The famous puppet theatre FroeFroe has created a performance about the power and magic of music. Inspired by a book entitled ‘Melodies’ by H. Krausser (‘the German Umberto Eco’), the performance B’rok d’Anvers is supplemented by the unrivalled, magical, Various dates FroeFroe touch: a harmonious mix of actors, mind-blowing and heart-stirring puppets and live music, resulting in the most poetic and Learn more about this secret society and their magical scenes, time after time. Tropoi has been revolutionary plan to turn Antwerp into the widely acclaimed in the media. These are the last world’s most Baroque city. Follow them on an Muziektheater performances. It is a must-see. expedition around the city, and discover it from a Baroque perspective. Join the members of the Transparant: ❧ Blikjesfabriek Hoboken, Great Baroque Brotherhood on a walk through corner of Lage Weg/Krugerstraat the city, and find out more about their plans: Les Indes galantes ❧ 7 — 8/9, 13 — 16/9, 20 — 23/9 at 8 pm Baroque everywhere! You will gradually be ❧ € 16 / € 12 / € 10 introduced to their network, and you will assist 18 — 19 Aug them with their small and large interventions in the city’s squares and streets. They will make From the outset, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s ‘Les you want to embrace the Baroque and never let Indes galantes’ was a major success. After the go. Would you like to join this brotherhood of premieres in 1735 and 1772, this Baroque opera Baroque rebels or rebellious Barockers? was performed in the Paris opera a whopping B’rok d’Anvers is a theatrical narrative walk, 320 times. Now, Muziektheater Transparant which was developed in cooperation with De has decided to let young, emerging talented Kleine Expeditie. If you like to walk through singers, dancers and musicians have their way Antwerp, and if you have done this often, you with this production. The four different stories may remember other theatrical walks created by (or ‘entrées’) focus on such themes as love and this group, including the evening openings in the exoticism. Dance is just as important as singing Antwerp zoo, the performances at Wintervuur or and music in this performance. the walks in Schoonselhof. ❧ Theaterstudio deSingel, Desguinlei 25, ❧ 2 — 3/6, 5— 8/7, 12 — 15/7, 19 — 22/7, 26 — 29/7 ❧ 18/8 at 8 pm, 19/8 at 3 pm ❧ Performances at 10 am, 10.30 am, 11 am, 1.30 pm, ❧ € 15 / € 12 / € 8 2 pm, 2.30 pm, 3 pm, 3.30 pm ❧ Duration: 90 minutes ❧ € 10 ❧ In Dutch. English on request

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‘Lulletje’ is a theatrical concert on the theme of with Jutta Troch and Jon Birdsong. Theuns is the love and fear in uncertain times. A poignant yet ‘conductor’ of Baroque Orchestration X, a collec- hopeful tale, accompanied by music that pro- tive that fuses contemporary music with the rich vides solace. Johan Petit (MartHa!tentatief) and sound of the Baroque. They use classical instru- Pieter Theuns (B.O.X) try to unravel the complex ments to bring down the walls of sound, between problems of our time. The world is at our feet. old and new, pop and classical music, local and Everything is possible. All you have to do is want international music. something – but what about the useless and the losers? This may all sound very serious, but any- A unique collaboration one who knows Petit knows that his performances B.O.X and MartHa!tentatief joined forces for will always make you laugh. ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018’, creating Lulletje together. Starting in September, they will be tour- Petit the virtuoso ing Antwerp’s cultural centres. The surprisingly A master narrator – What an accurate descrip- modern sounds and tonalities of B.O.X and Johan tion of Johan Petit, who has been creating Petit’s timeless narrative will combine to create performances for MartHa!tentatief for several some unforgettable evenings, in which the old and years. This theatre company focuses on urban the new will blend in with the here and now. themes, resulting in accessible and often festive performances. ❧ Various locations throughout the city. ❧ Check www.antwerpbaroque2018.be for the ticket Old and new prices and the full list of performances. Pieter Theuns is in charge of the music, together

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‘Lulletje’ is a theatrical concert on the theme of with Jutta Troch and Jon Birdsong. Theuns is the who from a distance love and fear in uncertain times. A poignant yet ‘conductor’ of Baroque Orchestration X, a collec- hopeful tale, accompanied by music that pro- tive that fuses contemporary music with the rich look like flies – Part 2 vides solace. Johan Petit (MartHa!tentatief) and sound of the Baroque. They use classical instru- 7 — 23 Oct Pieter Theuns (B.O.X) try to unravel the complex ments to bring down the walls of sound, between problems of our time. The world is at our feet. old and new, pop and classical music, local and In May 2017, a colourful procession of 1,000 Everything is possible. All you have to do is want international music. Antwerpians paraded through Antwerp. Police something – but what about the useless and the officers and firemen, skaters and cricket players, losers? This may all sound very serious, but any- A unique collaboration Gigue! people with Aldi bags, women on men’s bikes one who knows Petit knows that his performances B.O.X and MartHa!tentatief joined forces for – ‘De Parade’ was a one-off performance by the Various dates will always make you laugh. ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018’, creating Lulletje artist and theatre maker Thomas Verstraeten. together. Starting in September, they will be tour- It was his way of creating order in the chaos of If you love to dance, be sure to read this. Fameus, Petit the virtuoso ing Antwerp’s cultural centres. The surprisingly the street, the city and our increasingly complex which promotes amateur arts, has some really A master narrator – What an accurate descrip- modern sounds and tonalities of B.O.X and Johan world. interesting plans for this Baroque festival. Their tion of Johan Petit, who has been creating Petit’s timeless narrative will combine to create One year later, Verstraeten has completed his new production, ‘Gigue!’ searches for a con- performances for MartHa!tentatief for several some unforgettable evenings, in which the old and editing of the massive collection of video footage temporary interpretation of the concept of ‘the years. This theatre company focuses on urban the new will blend in with the here and now. that was made during the parade. He will present Baroque’, starting from various dance styles. To themes, resulting in accessible and often festive the result on three large screens. The renowned this end, Fameus is searching for amateur danc- performances. ❧ Various locations throughout the city. sound artist Senjan Jansen has composed an ers of all ages (15+) in all kinds of styles for this ❧ Check www.antwerpbaroque2018.be for the ticket entreating soundscape for the video installation. adventure. Old and new prices and the full list of performances. They will organise two intensive boot camps Pieter Theuns is in charge of the music, together ❧ Cruise Terminal, Ernest Van Dijckkaai/Steenplein on 10 and 11 November and from 16 through 18 ❧ Closed on Monday November. The dancers will work with dance ❧ Free professionals to prepare for the performance ❧ Official opening on 6/10 at 7pm before an audience on 18 November. The young students of the letStof sewing workshop will provide the costumes and the props. With ‘Matching Bodies’ (2016) and ‘Shaken not Stirred’ (2017), Famous has already proven of its ability to create and coach impressive dance projects.

❧ Het Oude Badhuis, Stuivenbergplein ❧ You can register for free from 4/6 until 15/9 at www.fameus.be. ❧ Presentation 18/11 € 4 / € 2 ❧ For the right times of the presentation, kindly check www.fameus.be.

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‘Earth Diver’ appeals to all of your senses: a choir like a warm blanket. The composer Nicolaus Brass amidst an imposing set, powerful images projected created a strange and compelling soundtrack for onto large screens, a compelling performer and the film. The vocal performer Phil Minton recites/ music that expresses celestial hope and earthly whispers/shouts/sings a moving poem about loss rebellion. They combine to make an impressive and asceticism. The message is powerful, and the production directed by Wouter Van Looy about a message is heard. society in crisis. The audience is seated around a cube-shaped A co-production with deSingel. stage, lit with mine lamps. You will feel as if you are at the bottom of the mine, which the artist ❧ Former Electrabel site/Interescaut Wim Catrysse filmed. The footage of the mine – a Alexander Wuststraat 2, Schelle Russian mine in Norway that is kept open for ❧ 11, 12, 13/10 at 8 pm, 14/10 at 3 pm strategic reasons – is extraordinarily beautiful. ❧ € 25 / € 20 / € 8 The compositions of Heinrich Schütz, who looks to God for hope and salvation, are beautifully performed by the excellent ChorWerk Ruhr, enfolding

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Toneelhuis/FC Bergman: Het land Nod 25 — 28 Oct

‘Het land Nod’ refers to the place to which Cain was his works and about people who seek solace and banished after killing his brother Abel – the land of protection in the museum. aimlessness, far from Eden. For this performance, The public is seated in the set, protected from FC Bergman was inspired by the majestic Rubens external threats. The Rubens gallery becomes a gallery of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts. Since the place to hide, a place to catch your breath, away museum’s renovation, it has also been transformed from the outside world, in a mix of poetry and slap- into a no-man’s land. stick with references to Godard’s ‘Bande à part’. A poetic, at times dramatic and even hilarious procession of characters who find solace and A co-production with Toneelhuis. distraction among fifteen of Rubens’ most impressive masterpieces unfolds against the backdrop of a ❧ Former Electrabel site/Interescaut true-to-life copy of the Rubens gallery. Alexander Wuststraat 2, Schelle FC Bergman created a wordless performance, ❧ 25, 26, 27, 28/10 at 8 pm about the history of the Rubens gallery, about ❧ € 25 / € 20 / € 8

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18 — 21 Oct & 24 — 27 Oct 1715. The court composer Marin Marais performs his new work for viola da gamba and In 2001, Matthias de Koning, Damiaan De basso continue before the Sun King. Suddenly, Schrijver and Peter Van den Eede examined the something strange happens. The royal body actor’s profession. This year, and just in time starts to move. The courtiers, who are taken by for the Baroque festival, they are reflecting on surprise, closely mimic the king’s moves. The the position of artists in society, as well as on king and his followers create a choreography the places in which they create their work – in of their own, jacking up the rhythm forcing the ateliers or workshops. They start from a blank musicians to follow their pace. This is origin of canvas, an empty room. The space is transformed a new style of music, thanks to the interaction into an excessive, apocalyptic scene, with the between musicians and the audience. ballsy use of opulent and lavish materials. Like 2018. Zonzo Compagnie & Ictus Ensemble Baroque painters, the performers use dramatic partner with the contemporary composer effects and a whirl of emotions and movements, Frédéric Verrières, who dusts off Marin taking you on a memorable aesthetic adventure Marais’s score, adding a modern twist to it. ‘Le from which there is no escape. grand ballet’ promises to be one hell of a party, with a duet for viola da gamba and electric ❧ Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, guitar. Shake those hoop skirts, baby! Mutsaardstraat 31 ❧ 18 — 21/10, 24 — 27/10 at 8 pm Le grand ballet is part of the BIG BANG Festival. ❧ € 16 / € 8 ❧ deSingel, Desguinlei 25 ❧ € 7 / € 5 ❧ Further practical information available soon online at www.antwerpbaroque2018.be

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18 — 21 Oct & 24 — 27 Oct 1715. The court composer Marin Marais per- ‘Stadsparadijzen’ (Urban Paradises) is the forms his new work for viola da gamba and artistic response of a young, diverse company In 2001, Matthias de Koning, Damiaan De basso continue before the Sun King. Suddenly, to the challenges of a demanding city. The work Schrijver and Peter Van den Eede examined the something strange happens. The royal body marvels at the encounters in the city between actor’s profession. This year, and just in time starts to move. The courtiers, who are taken by people of various backgrounds. The animal for the Baroque festival, they are reflecting on surprise, closely mimic the king’s moves. The kingdom becomes a metaphor for all kinds of the position of artists in society, as well as on king and his followers create a choreography De Bronstige observations on the urban jungle, where people the places in which they create their work – in of their own, jacking up the rhythm forcing the defend, expand and dispute territory. Sources ateliers or workshops. They start from a blank musicians to follow their pace. This is origin of Bazooka’s: of inspiration for this production included the canvas, an empty room. The space is transformed a new style of music, thanks to the interaction fables of Jean De La Fontaine, ‘The Garden of into an excessive, apocalyptic scene, with the between musicians and the audience. Lucifer Eden with the Fall of Man’ by Peter Paul Rubens ballsy use of opulent and lavish materials. Like 2018. Zonzo Compagnie & Ictus Ensemble and Marie-Jo Lafontaine. Baroque painters, the performers use dramatic partner with the contemporary composer 22 Nov Urban paradises is a dynamic performance effects and a whirl of emotions and movements, Frédéric Verrières, who dusts off Marin of live music, song, dance, theatre and video taking you on a memorable aesthetic adventure Marais’s score, adding a modern twist to it. ‘Le Michaël Brijs, Andy Fierens and De Prins projections. from which there is no escape. grand ballet’ promises to be one hell of a party, have created a contemporary oratorio entitled with a duet for viola da gamba and electric ‘Lucifer’. This spiritual and vocal work, which A production of kunstZ, in collaboration with ❧ Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, guitar. Shake those hoop skirts, baby! has no sets or actors, was very popular during Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Kopspel, OOSTNATIE and Mutsaardstraat 31 the Baroque era. The story was inspired by the Fameus. ❧ 18 — 21/10, 24 — 27/10 at 8 pm Le grand ballet is part of the BIG BANG Festival. eponymous play of the Baroque author Vondel. ❧ € 16 / € 8 The rebellious angel Lucifer is cast out of heaven ❧ Athena Hall, Royal Athenaeum Antwerp, ❧ deSingel, Desguinlei 25 after a violent struggle and lands on earth. Franklin Rooseveltplaats 11 ❧ € 7 / € 5 The main theme of flight, and the figure of the ❧ 22 — 23/12 at 8.30 pm ❧ Further practical information available soon refugee, is more relevant than ever. Around the ❧ € 10 / € 8 online at www.antwerpbaroque2018.be world, people are searching for a new home. ‘Lucifer’ promises to be an eclectic listening experience, combining Baroque elements with mysticism, suspense, horror and surrealism. The story will be performed by De Bronstige Bazooka’s choir, accompanied by an instrumental ensemble of four musicians, a narrator and two vocal soloists.

A collaboration of kunstZ, Fameus and Arenberg.

❧ AmUZ, Kammenstraat 81 ❧ 22/11 at 8.30 pm ❧ € 12 (in pre-sale) / € 14 (at the box office)

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 90 7/05/18 17:47 1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 91 7/05/18 17:47 WALKS Three Baroque walks, with three very different perspectives will highlight the city’s varied and rich Baroque heritage. Learn more about the life of Rubens, visit some of Antwerp’s most beautiful buildings and discover the city from a Baroque perspective.

In Rubens’ Footsteps: A Biographical Exploration 1 June — 31 Oct

Rubens did not just spend time in his workshop Charles Borromeo. ‘Rubens’ prosperity’ takes you and artist’s residence. You will also encounter on a tour of St. Paul’s, the Cathedral and St. James’ his works in many of Antwerp’s monumental Church. churches. He created 43 paintings for St. Charles Borromeo, St. Andrew’s was his first parish church ❧ € 105 for the guide + admission to the churches and he is buried in St. James’ Church. An expe- ❧ Duration 2 and a half hours, maximum 20 participants rienced guide will tell you more about the most ❧ The walk is also included in the important chapters in the life of this great Baroque Antwerp Museum App. master, on the professional and private level. ‘The ❧ See also Barok in Situ, p. 96 rise of Rubens’ starts in St. Andrew’s Church, stops in the Cathedral of Our Lady and ends in St.

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 92 7/05/18 17:48 WALKS Baroque Electrifies Three Baroque walks, with three very different perspectives will highlight the city’s varied and rich Baroque heritage. 1 June — 31 Dec Learn more about the life of Rubens, visit some of Antwerp is the Baroque capital of the Low Antwerp’s most beautiful buildings and discover the city Countries. The Baroque is everywhere – on the city’s streets and in its lavish interiors. It is avid, from a Baroque perspective. surprising, exuberant and dramatic. ‘Baroque Electrifies’ is the perfect introduction for a group visit to the Antwerp Baroque 2018 city festival. Your guide will use fun anecdotes to explain the rich history of imposing façades, magnificent gates and lavishly decorated sculptures. Your visit will not be limited to ‘old stuff’. The contemporary Baroque will also receive plenty of atten- In Rubens’ Footsteps: tion. See the city’s colourful murals, and learn more about all the events (in the present and A Biographical Exploration future), which will further enhance Antwerp’s reputation as a Baroque city. 1 June — 31 Oct ❧ € 75 for the guide Rubens did not just spend time in his workshop Charles Borromeo. ‘Rubens’ prosperity’ takes you ❧ Duration 2 hours, maximum 20 participants and artist’s residence. You will also encounter on a tour of St. Paul’s, the Cathedral and St. James’ his works in many of Antwerp’s monumental Church. churches. He created 43 paintings for St. Charles Baroque Shock – Borromeo, St. Andrew’s was his first parish church ❧ € 105 for the guide + admission to the churches and he is buried in St. James’ Church. An expe- ❧ Duration 2 and a half hours, maximum 20 participants a limited edition rienced guide will tell you more about the most ❧ The walk is also included in the important chapters in the life of this great Baroque Antwerp Museum App. 9 July — 13 Dec master, on the professional and private level. ‘The ❧ See also Barok in Situ, p. 96 rise of Rubens’ starts in St. Andrew’s Church, This group walk connects Antwerp’s two most stops in the Cathedral of Our Lady and ends in St. beautiful Baroque churches to each other: St. Charles Borromeo and the former St. Augustine’s Church, which is now home to the Amuz early music centre. See how the Baroque continued to have an impact on the city for many centuries, including in the opulence of beautiful Rococo façades, the splendour of the neo-Baroque and the imposing Beaux-Arts. As the icing on the cake, the walk includes an exclusive visit to the Amuz early music centre, where you can discover Jan Fabre’s most recent work: three panels to replace the altarpieces of Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens and Sir Anthony van Dyck, which once graced St. Augustine’s Church.

❧ € 75 for the guide ❧ Duration 2 hours, maximum 20 participants

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Artists and locals have set to work with the Baroque all over the city. Others have commissioned works from artists, as was the custom of the 17th-century bourgeoisie. The works of the original masters will be in the spotlight in Antwerp’s monumental churches.

Baroque in Situ Continuous

Antwerp has five churches where you can experi- tip On Saturday 11 August, you can see a unique ence the Baroque and the world in which Rubens spectacle in St. Charles Borromeo’s Church during lived and moved. St. Andrew’s Church, St. Paul’s the ‘Night of the Churches’. The painting behind Church, St. Charles Borromeo’s Church, St. the high altar is switched in less than fifteen James’s Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady are minutes. The church stewards still use the pulley an unrivalled combination of the fine arts, inspira- system that was devised 400 years ago by the tion and wonderment. Jesuits for this procedure. Besides being lively parish churches, these five churches are also treasuries of art and cultur- cATHeDrAL OF OUr LADY al-historical heritage. They are unique witnesses of Handschoenmarkt, € 6 / € 4 the Baroque in the Southern Netherlands from the Free with tHe bAroque feStiVAl CArd end of the sixteenth century until the early eight- sAiNT cHArLes BOrrOmeO’s cHUrcH eenth century. Hendrik Conscienceplein 6, Free If you decide to step into these primarily Gothic churches, you will be surprised at the inexhaust- sT. ANDreW’s cHUrcH ible treasure of Baroque visual art you will Waaistraat 5, Free encounter there. Unlike museums, these are not sT. jAmes’s cHUrcH just repositories of artworks but places where you Lange Nieuwstraat 73–75, Free can admire masterpieces in the location for which they were commissioned and designed so many sT. pAUL’s cHUrcH centuries ago. Veemarkt 14, € 2 / € 1 A must for anyone who is interested in learning Free with tHe bAroque feStiVAl CArd more about Peter Paul Rubens and his artistic legacy. ❧ Download the free ‘In Rubens’ Footsteps’ walk in the Antwerp Museum App. extra A visitor guide will help you navigate the ❧ The visitor guide and activity sheets are free Baroque interiors of these monumental churches. ❧ See expo ‘Diasporalia’, p. 70 Each of the five churches is situated in its seven- ❧ See Max Richter, p. 80 teenth-century context and the guide also dis- ❧ For the opening hours and further information about cusses several Baroque artworks in further detail. the fringe activities: www.antwerpbaroque2018.be Children can discover this heritage with their parents using the fun activity sheets.

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Baroque in Situ Continuous

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Artists and neighbourhood residents will set to work with the legacy of Rubens in cultural centres, community centres and libraries, discovering what Baroque means to them in our time.

Samen-weven (Weaving together) The artist Klaas Rommelaere will be supervising a weekly crafts workshop with Moroccan women in the Merksemdok meeting centre from June until December 2018. While the women embroi- der, weave, knot... Rommelaere will give them a speedy introduction to the Baroque. The result Baroque Murals is a tapestry teeming with symbols, colours and textures, that are typical of the women’s culture. From 1 June The work will be exhibited during Merksemdok’s reopening in September. Four artists. Four styles. Four Baroque motifs. Four murals. The graffiti artist Yvon Tordoir and ❧ Weekly workshop on Thursday from 1 pm — 3.30 pm his colleagues will give Antwerp’s walls a modern ❧ Presentation during the reopening of OC albeit Baroque make-over. Astro (Paris) often Merksemdok in September uses trompe-l’oeil. Smug (Glasgow) likes to work ❧ www.ccmerksem.be with Baroque themes, such as ‘death’, ‘vanitas’ and ‘opulence’. El Mac from Los Angeles designs unique grids for an interesting chiaroscuro effect, similar to Rembrandt’s approach. As for Tordoir, he likes to use calligraphy and figurative motives, similar to those found in 17th-century books. The works will be revealed to the public starting in early June.

❧ In Antwerp’s city centre ❧ Download the Antwerp Museum App for further information about the murals. ❧ Free

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1374_boek_176x250_binnenwerk_EN_CS6.indd 96 7/05/18 17:48 Hof van Ursel | contemporary Baroque Baroque Next workshop Hof van Ursel in Ekeren was one of Rubens’ two Generation country residences. It is also the title of a project Various dates in which professional artists will coach talented young artists during several Baroque-themed workshops. See the results of this collaboration Artists and neighbourhood residents will set on 22 September during the Kasteelfeesten festi- to work with the legacy of Rubens in cultural val in Veltwijck Castle and in Hof De Bist. centres, community centres and libraries, discovering what Baroque means to them in our ❧ Kasteelfeesten, 22/9 time. ❧ Expo ‘Barok Vandaag!’ (Baroque Today) in Hof De Bist, 5 — 21/10 Samen-weven (Weaving together) ❧ Rubens inspires plenty of activities this autumn. The artist Klaas Rommelaere will be supervising Check www.252cc.be a weekly crafts workshop with Moroccan women in the Merksemdok meeting centre from June until December 2018. While the women embroi- der, weave, knot... Rommelaere will give them a speedy introduction to the Baroque. The result Baroque Murals is a tapestry teeming with symbols, colours and textures, that are typical of the women’s culture. Expo 2018 From 1 June The work will be exhibited during Merksemdok’s reopening in September. Various dates Four artists. Four styles. Four Baroque motifs. Four murals. The graffiti artist Yvon Tordoir and ❧ Weekly workshop on Thursday from 1 pm — 3.30 pm In early 2017, the locals went in search of a new his colleagues will give Antwerp’s walls a modern ❧ Presentation during the reopening of OC work for the five neighbourhoods in the 2018 albeit Baroque make-over. Astro (Paris) often Merksemdok in September postal-code area. To this end, they commissioned uses trompe-l’oeil. Smug (Glasgow) likes to work ❧ www.ccmerksem.be an artwork, as was the custom of the bourgeoisie with Baroque themes, such as ‘death’, ‘vanitas’ did in the 17th century. The artists Nick Hullegie, and ‘opulence’. El Mac from Los Angeles designs Bram Van Meervelde, Gerard Herman and Mark unique grids for an interesting chiaroscuro effect, Pozlep are creating new works for four neigh- similar to Rembrandt’s approach. As for Tordoir, bourhoods. The fifth neighbourhood has decided he likes to use calligraphy and figurative motives, to have children, senior citizens and visually-im- similar to those found in 17th-century books. The paired residents create an artwork together. All works will be revealed to the public starting in of the artworks will be festively inaugurated later early June. Barok? Barucca! this year.

Young people and the Baroque: the De Kern cul- ❧ In Antwerp’s city centre ❧ Various locations in Antwerp tural centre in Wilrijk is interested in the clash ❧ Download the Antwerp Museum App for further ❧ Practical information and details at of cultures. The photographer Debby Huysmans information about the murals. www.expo2018.be will work with young people on typical Baroque ❧ Free themes, including portraits, vanitas paintings and figure studies. Expect walls filled to the rafters with photos, in the style of the art rooms of yore.

❧ Various locations in Wilrijk. ❧ November 2018 ❧ Practical information and details at www.ccdekern.be

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Anyone interested in Rubens and the Baroque era can enjoy a full programme of exhibitions, walks and performances. If you are interested in learning more about the relevance of Baroque artists then and now, register for a lecture organised by Amarant or the Rubenianum.

Amarant: Barok Rocks Various dates

❧ All the lectures are in Dutch.

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Amarant: Barok Rocks Various dates

Amarant has a comprehensive programme of 21 June: ‘Contemporary art and Baroque’ is lectures, often in combination with museum an introduction to the work of artists who have or workshop visits. The following are our five been inspired by Baroque masters, focussing on suggestions: contemporary works with Baroque characteristics. Speaker: Inge Van Reeth 10 June: Fabienne De Meulemeester will take Rubenianum you on a tour of ‘Michaelina’, the first retrospec- 23 June: Visit to the exhibition ‘Sanguine | tive of the work of this fascinating artist. Bloedrood’. Your guide, Inge Van Reeth, will Various dates discuss the links between historic and contempo- 16 June: Koenraad Jonckheere will discuss the rary art. The Rubenianum is the expert centre for Flemish art 21 October. Theodoor van Loon, a painter artist’s workshop around 1650 in a lecture on the of the 16th and 17th centuries. The centre’s experts in the Southern Netherlands, was heavily workshop in the 17th century and the present. 20 & 21 August: Kathleen Joris will demonstrate will introduce you to the world of Rubens and his influenced by Caravaggio. Speaker: Sabine van Afterwards, you will visit the studio of the contem- Rubens’ versatility as an artist, with major com- contemporaries in their lectures, sharing their Sprang porary artist Cindy Wright. missions for kings and queens and intimate family passion and dedication with their audience. portraits, as well as the lovely landscapes that he 16 December. Victor Wolfvoet, one of Rubens’ painted at the end of his life. Rubens and Society, Then and Now: lectures most loyal followers, steps out of his master’s on Thursday evening at 8 pm. Abigail Newman shadow. Speaker: Bert Schepers ❧ All the lectures are in Dutch. focuses on Rubens’ worlds, discussing such themes as ‘communication’, ‘world literature’ and ❧ Rubenianum, Kolveniersstraat 20, +32 3 201 15 77 ‘diplomacy’, comparing them to today’s world. ❧ € 5 ❧ All the lectures are in Dutch. Rubenianum Lectures 2018: lectures on Sunday mornings at 11 am about the Antwerp Academy and about Rubens’ peers and contemporaries.

24 June. The woman who discovered (or re-discovered) Michaelina Wautier, the curator of the ‘Michaelina’ exhibition and the art historian and curator Katlijne Van der Stighelen will tell you all there is to know about this major woman artist.

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Throw modesty to the winds and enjoy some fiery parties and unique festivals. That is also an integral part of the Baroque, and it’s what Antwerp is all about: elegance and raw beauty, historical and contemporary, a world city and a pocket-sized metropolis.

De Coninckplein is the venue for a three-day artistic Festival Royal festival. Permeke Library invites you to enjoy 31 Aug — 2 Sept imagery, words and music, scents and colours, flavours and entertainment. The party starts on Friday, with the inauguration of a graffiti wall. Local talent will join forces for Youth Zone, with a cross-pollination of urban dance, poetry slam and Baroque music. Tony Le Duc’s photo exhibition ‘Family Tables’ will whet your appetite in the Permeke Library. The music will be wrapped up with a Baroque party with B.O.X featuring Brihang & Tsar B. On Saturday afternoon, Behoud de Begeerte and Permeke will host a programme of contemporary Baroque music in combination with a tribute to Baroque authors. Diner Royal will pamper the taste buds of gourmets with a seven-course menu consisting of dishes from around the world. Party the night away at the masked Bal Royal. Sunday is a family day. Sinjor Circo will hit the square with Poly. The bunk theatre company is known for its nostalgic, poetic take on circus theatre. The festive weekend will conclude with the premier of ‘De Man die zijn snor in brand stak’, a film about the author jmH Berckmans.

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15 + 16 + 17 Sint - Willibrorduskerk november 2018 Antwerpen

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Antwerp will celebrate PunkBaroque for one day You will hear contemporary music acts perform and one night –with the ‘P’ for pomp and pulchri- their interpretations of Baroque classics and clas- tude, the ‘B’ for ballsy and bold. Music, dance, sical musicians perform contrary Baroque covers performance and the spoken word will be inter- of pop songs. Mauro Pawlowski and Louis Van Der woven during this festival, which was inspired by Waal will create a restless and dramatic, punk and the joie de vivre of the Baroque era. post-Baroque universe, together with musicians, The Poetry Bordello reveals the sultry side of actors and performers. poetry. Our poets of loose morals will caress your You will marvel as dancers covered in gold body ears with velvet-smooth words, in muted light, paint perform choreographers inspired by Baroque sitting on sofas and chaise longues. If you love artworks – but there is a participatory element as poetry, you will definitely enjoy discovering the well. During our ‘Bal Baroque’, the MC will teach naughty alter egos of famous poets. you the moves. The dance floor will be your can- Two worlds collide in Fatena’s Poetry Salon. vas, whether you’re into line dancing or krumping. The hostess and poet Fatena Al Ghorra has selected Baroque poems by Belgian and interna- ❧ DE Studio tional poets for ‘Baroque Is Not Dead!’ Discover Maarschalk Gerardstraat 4 the magnificent poetry of Flemish and Arab poets. ❧ 24/11, from 8 pm ❧ www.destudio.be

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they have designed a new glass and ANTWERP special, adapted festive packaging for their Tripel d’Anvers, a full-bodied CRAFTSMEN tripel beer with a unique Antwerp accent. To date, Rubens continues to inspire new The cheese affineur Van Tricht, who ripens his cheeses in the generations of artists as well as Antwerp brewery’s former bottling plant, locals who are taking an innovative has created a ball of cheese approach to old crafts. Bakers, butchers, which pairs nicely with Tripel d’Anvers. cheese makers, brewers, coffee and The Butcher’s Store, another of De tea specialists, distillers, chocolate and Koninck’s neighbours, has produced a Baroque beer sausage. biscuit makers are all launching special Want to savour the complete editions of their products. An overview. flavour explosion? Pop into Bakkerij Goossens, the city’s oldest and smallest bakery, for their Baroque bread. Will it have the same legendary taste as its Roggeverdommeke bread?

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BAR BAROK CITY BREWERY

A golden combination (2) A golden combination (1) Hungry? Here’s where to buy a portion LuLin Teas was inspired by Baroque still lifes to Joie de vivre means enjoying a of ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018’ put together a new floral tea melange. LuLin RUBENS refreshing pint of ale with some good Teas produces ethical, 100% natural, hand-picked, cheese and cold cuts. And they know • Bar Barok/Antwerp City Brewery, artisan tea varieties. all about this in the De Koninck city Nationalestraat 45, Philip’s Biscuits has produced a biscuit to go INSPIRES brewery. For the Baroque festival open from 15/5 until 15/9 from 11 am until with the new tea blend. They have also created they have designed a new glass and 7 pm. You can taste and buy the products a special Baroque packaging for Antwerp’s most special, adapted festive packaging for ANTWERP famous biscuit: the Antwerp Handjes. here! their Tripel d’Anvers, a full-bodied Jitsk Chocolates, meanwhile, has produced a • Visit Antwerp, Grote Markt 13 CRAFTSMEN tripel beer with a unique Antwerp Rubens bar for chocolate lovers. This young, • Rubens House, Wapper 9-11 accent. talented master chocolate maker worked at the The cheese affineur Van Tricht, • mASshop, Hanzestedenplaats 1 To date, Rubens continues to inspire new Shanghai World Expo among others. So can you who ripens his cheeses in the • Middelheim Museum, Middelheimlaan 61 see why we are so enthusiastic? generations of artists as well as Antwerp brewery’s former bottling plant, • Plantin-Moretus Museum, locals who are taking an innovative has created a ball of cheese More great stuff Vrijdagmarkt 22 which pairs nicely with Tripel approach to old crafts. Bakers, butchers, • Elixir d’Anvers: fx de Beukelaer, one of • Mayer van den Bergh Museum, d’Anvers. Belgium’s oldest distilleries, will be issuing Lange Gasthuisstraat 19 cheese makers, brewers, coffee and The Butcher’s Store, another of De a limited edition of its vibrant yellow golden • De Koninck city brewery, Koninck’s neighbours, has produced tea specialists, distillers, chocolate and herbal liqueur, called Elixir d’Anvers, which will a Baroque beer sausage. Mechelsesteenweg 291 age in special casks. biscuit makers are all launching special Want to savour the complete • Antwerp flYshop, Luchthavenlei • The Belgian gin brand havn Gins will be flavour explosion? Pop into • Flandersshop, Grasmarkt 61, Brussels editions of their products. An overview. launching an exclusive festival edition of its Bakkerij Goossens, the city’s oldest haVn Gin Antwerp. • m HkA, Leuvenstraat 32 and smallest bakery, for their • Or be completely fashion-proof with the T-shirt • fomu, Waalsekaai 47 Baroque bread. Will it have of the Royal Academy Of Fine Arts Antwerp. • Snijders & Rockox House, Keizerstraat 10-12 the same legendary taste as its Several Antwerp jewellers will be launching a Roggeverdommeke bread? jewellery line with a Baroque look and feel.

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Tickets Antwerp Museum App Only one place to get your tickets: The Antwerp Museum App is your free guide www.antwerpbaroque2018.be during ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018’. Map your own route or choose a ready-made tour. Get exclusive information and learn more about the The Baroque Festival Card stories behind the exhibitions, the monumental The Baroque Festival Card is the best way to dis- churches and the ‘Baroque Murals’ street art cover what ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018’ has in store project. for you. Enjoy free access for 48 hours to all the exhibitions and monumental churches that are ❧ How to download it? Find the app store on your participating in the cultural city festival ‘Antwerp smartphone or tablet, search Antwerp Museum Baroque 2018. Rubens inspires’ for just 25 euros. App and click download. The app is available for iOS and Android.

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