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Soleil Noir
Nearly one hundred works by Belgian artists across 130 years, centred on more than thirty works by Léon Spilliaert.
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The show opens on a woman at the edge of the channel in Ostend, facing the jetty at sunset, in an ink wash so dark it is almost spectral. It is Léon Spilliaert at his gloomiest, and the rest of the villa slowly lets the light back in.
Nearly a hundred works, all by Belgian artists, hang in ten chapters with names like Le Ténébreux and La Reine des plages, each with its own wall colour. More than thirty are by Spilliaert, set beside Ensor, Permeke and Minne and later painters such as Luc Tuymans and Michaël Borremans. The route ends on the colourful trees he painted after moving to Ixelles in 1935, a short walk from here. He moved house ten times, which any Brussels renter will respect.
La Libre's Guy Duplat called it "très riche et dense". Tickets are €15. Book online, and for weekends pick an arrival slot.
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More than thirty works by Léon Spilliaert, the Ostend painter of empty sea walls and night shores, anchor nearly a hundred Belgian works across 130 years. They hang in the rooms of an Art Deco villa.
No te pierdas
Woman by the channel at sunset
Look for the dark Spilliaert ink wash that opens the show: a lone woman at the water's edge facing the Ostend jetty.
Spilliaert's 1907 self-portrait
The young artist paints himself pale and hallucinated, the bony figure his contemporaries described.
Tuymans's Zeeofficier
A small 1978 gouache on blotting paper of a naval officer bending to pick up his cap.
The KRJST tapestry in the hall
A large tapestry, Jusqu'à ce que la nuit te dise, hangs in the villa's hall.
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You only want Spilliaert's famous dark Ostend years: he shares the walls with about fifty other artists.
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- Soleil NoirLéon Spilliaert, La courbe de la Digue, 1907 (detail). Private collection
- Alone. Not even scared (to be scared!)Courtesy of Belgian Comic Strip Center
- House of Memory by Basil Al-Rawi© House of Memory - Basil Al-Rawi
- Boghossian Foundation - Villa EmpainFred Romero / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0