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Floris Jespers Afrikanist : Kongo - Knocke
Title
Floris Jespers Afrikanist : Kongo - Knocke / Stijn Vanwijnsberghe.
ISBN
9789082357509
908235750X
Publication
Grand Halleaux : Vanwijnsberghe, ©2015.
Physical Description
107 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 x 30 cm
Notes
Catalog of an exhibition held at CC Scharpoord, Knokke-Heist, Belgium, April 4-April 26, 2015.
Text in Dutch, French, German, and English.
Summary
Floris Jespers travelled to Belgian Congo for the first time in 1951. He stayed in the city of Kamina where his son Mark worked as a doctor. The journey was a revelation for him. He translated his impressions of African women into colorful frescoes. The African paintings of Jespers are not genre scenes but they present a greater vision of Africa. From the mysterious gazes and the faces of the Swimmers painted in Ostend in 1927 and the Congolese women of the fifties the same idealised vision of the enigmatic African woman emerges. Exhibition: Cultuurcentrum Scharpoord, Knokke-Heist, Belgium (04.-26.04.2015).
Format
Books
Language
Dutch; English; French; German
Added to Catalog
August 25, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
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Cultuurcentrum Scharpoord (Knokke-Heist, Belgium)
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