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Brussels’ flower carpet blooms despite heatwave

August 13, 2022871 Views

The creators of Brussels' vast flower carpet, unfurled every two years in front of city hall, are opting for more heat-resistant blooms and the use of pot plants for the first time in the art project's 50-year history to adapt to Europe's heatwave. Returning to the Belgian capital's opulent Grand Place after a COVID-imposed absence, this year's design recalls the first carpet laid out in 1971 which was inspired by Arabesque shapes. A view shows a 1,680 square meters flower carpet made with Belgian begonias, dahlias, grasses, barks and chrysanthemums at Brussels Grand Place, Belgium, August 12, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron With the installation expected to endure four days of temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), the designers have had to swap many begonias ...

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La Pêche Miraculeuse regains its original glory

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May 6, 20221167 Views

It is something of a miracle that La Pêche miraculeuse still exists at all. So, in order to ensure its future, the council of the church of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-over-de-Dijlekerk in Mechelen wanted to leave nothing to chance. Thanks to support from the Courtin-Bouché Fund, managed by the King Baudouin Foundation, the tryptic is now undergoing restoration with a view to restoring its original magnificence. If the French revolutionaries had not made off with La Pêche miraculeuse in 1794 and put it in the Louvre, this unique work by Peter Paul Rubens might not have survived. When it was returned to Mechelen some two decades later, its former place in the transept of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-over-de-Dijlekerk church had been taken by another work. The Rubens triptych was therefore relegated to the...

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Rutherford lands back in Belgium, finishes solo flight round the world

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January 21, 2022854 Views

Youngest woman to do this and first person the achieve the feat in a microlight plane A British-Belgian teenager became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world on Thursday and the first person to do so in a microlight plane after a five-month, five-continent odyssey in her Shark ultralight. Nineteen-year-old Zara Rutherford landed back at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in Belgium after flying 51,000 km (32,000 miles) over 52 nations since her Aug. 18 departure in the world's fastest microlight aircraft. Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford, 19, arrives at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport after a round-the-world trip in a light aircraft, becoming the youngest female pilot to circle the planet alone, in Wevelgem, Belgium, January 20, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol Cheers and applau...

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Teen pilot Zara Rutherford lands in Coimbatore

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December 30, 20211527 Views

Teen aviator Zara Rutherford landed in Coimbatore on Thursday as part of her bid to become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo and cover 51,000 kms, spanning five continents and 52 countries. The 19-year old British-Belgian Zara embarked on her journey on August 18 from Kortrik Wevelgem Airport in Belgium to set a world record to become the youngest solo pilot of the world's fastest Shark Ultralight plane. "It has been a challenging task, particularly given the weather conditions and Covid-19 restrictions. Actually my plan is to complete the task by mid November, but due to various formalities, like obtaining Visa, it was delayed by nearly two months," Zara told reporters here at the office of Elgi Equipments, the major air compressor manufacturers and sponsors of th...

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Teen pilot lands in Seoul in record solo-flight

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December 11, 20211176 Views

Teen pilot Zara Rutherford landed in Seoul on Saturday from Russia, the first Asia stop on her attempt to become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo. In August, the 19-year-old British-Belgian departed from Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in western Belgium on her 51,000-km (32,000-mile) journey, which is to span five continents and 52 countries, including the United States, Greenland, Russia and Colombia. "It has been challenging," Rutherford told reporters at Gimpo International Airport after arriving from Vladivostok in her bespoke Shark ultralight plane, the world's fastest microlight. "I was stuck in Alaska because of visa and weather issues for a month and I was stuck in Russia for a month because of visa and weather issues," she said. "I was hoping to complete it...

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Putting optimism at the centre with ‘Hahaha. The Humor of Art’

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September 14, 2021786 Views

"Nothing is serious enough to be taken seriously.” - Marcel Duchamp For the first time in a year and a half, the doors of the ING Art Center on Mont des Arts in Brussels will open on Wednesday for the exhibition Hahaha. The Humor of Art. The exhibition, with more than 200 works, looks at how different artistic movements, from the 19th century to the present day, have incorporated humor into the creative process in order to challenge established aesthetic canons. From the Great Zwanz Exhibition (1885) to Dada, from the painting of the donkey Lolo to Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades, from René Magritte to Marcel Broodthaers, from Andrea Fraser's lecture-performances to Wim Delvoye's works to play, Hahaha. The Humor of Art highlights the revolutionary potential of laughter. The exhibition ...

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Paintings that transcend our vision of increasingly uniform world

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September 10, 2021745 Views

Galerie Templon has kicked off the new season in Brussels with the return of Philippe Cognée for his newest series, Eye of the Storm The French painter Philippe Cognée, famous for his inimitable blurred wax technique, unveils a series of fifteen canvases flirting with abstraction. Created over the last year during the pandemic and keeping pace with the successive waves of lockdown, these new series alternate indoor and outdoor scenes. Views of a deserted but strangely serene studio contrast with a number of large impetuous landscapes, drenched in a nature bubbling over with life. Philippe Cognée has long used his painting to explore the shifting contemporary perception of the most ordinary features of our environment, from motorways and supermarkets to anonymous hotel rooms and ...

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Brussels Comic Strip Festival returns in new format

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August 27, 20211150 Views

Giant balloons will be back with a sneak peek into Korean comics world From 10 September to 10 October 2021, the 12th edition of the Brussels Comic Book Festival will be held in an exceptional new format: a month-long festival punctuated by exhibitions, events and original meetings. With a fun exhibition, a treasure hunt, guided tours and book signings, there will be something for all ages and tastes. And, to top it all off, the giant balloons will return, to a few strategic locations. 10 September will mark the start of a month-long celebration of the ninth art in Brussels. This special edition of the Brussels Comic Strip Festival will be full of surprises. It will be an invitation to travel, starting with a flight to South Korea - the festival's guest of honour-on the occasion...

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Belgian nightlife scene back on track

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August 11, 2021417 Views

On August 21st, from noon to midnight, Kompass Klub presents an exclusive line-up at the foot of the Atomium with Charlotte de Witte as headliner for an exclusive DJ set. This event heralds the gradual return to normality of the Belgian nightlife scene. Kompass Klub returns to the capital with an explosive line-up. On presentation of a Covid Certificate, 7,500 revelers will get the chance to hit the dance floor without social distancing and without a mouth mask. Charlotte de Witte, headliner of this open air show, will share the line-up with her fiancé, Enrico Sangiuliano as well as the energetic Paula Temple, Onyvaa, Massimo Mephisto, resident of Kompass Klub, and the rising star, Dana Montana. This will be Charlotte de Witte's first performance in the country since the health ...

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A treasure trove of 60,000 vintage tin boxes collected in 30 years

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August 6, 20211509 Views

Rare collection of an 83-year-old now spreads in four houses at Grand-Hallet in Belgium The colourful tins piled high around Belgian collector Yvette Dardenne used to contain goods ranging from chocolates, toffees, coffee and rice to tobacco, talc and shoe polish, and come from as far away as India. Vintage lithographed tin boxes, part of a huge collection of almost 60,000 pieces started 30 years ago by Yvette Dardenne, 83, from Belgium, who is describing herself as a "buxidaferrophile", are seen at her house in Grand-Hallet, Belgium August 5, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman Yvette Dardenne, 83, has accumulated almost 60,000 vintage tin boxes from all over the world since starting her collection some 30 years ago. The collection, which now occupies four houses, all began with a Cote...