With the exhibition Les Fleurs du Mal, running from February 28 to March 29, ceramic sculptures by Anne Marie Laureys go in dialogue with paintings by four artists: Julius Stibbe (NL), Nico Vaerewijck, Jan Vindevogel, and Ronald Zuurmond (NL).
The title refers to Charles Baudelaire’s famous collection of poems (1857), in which beauty and darkness are inextricably linked. Surprisingly, images of great intensity and beauty can arise from the broken and the uncomfortable.
The work of these artists can not only seduce, but also unsettle. The paintings and ceramic sculptures show how aesthetics can emerge from tension, distortion, and vulnerability.
