TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY

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  • Contemporary Visual Arts in Flanders - part I [text]
    Marc Ruyters, Eva Wittocx, 2008

    Among the modern-art crowd, Belgium is known as the country with that 'surrealist' lineage: James Ensor - René Magritte - Marcel Broodthaers. While this is certainly a fine compliment for three artists of far-reaching significance, a great deal has changed in this country, which has been a crossroads of the Roman and Germanic cultures, a key logistic point between Great Britain, Germany and France, and home to the European Community.