The itinerant exhibition “Belgian Art in Cartoons – from the Flemish Masters to the Comic Strip” has been specially curated to promote Belgian cartoon art abroad. It is the third exhibition in the “Cartoons from Belgium” series.
The European Cartoon Center invited Belgian cartoonists and caricaturists to submit works on the theme of Belgian Art History. From hundreds of submissions, an international jury of cartoonists and cartoon experts selected around fifty cartoons they themselves would be proud to see displayed on the exhibition walls. This approach also ensures strong international recognisability.
Some names—Van Eyck, Magritte, and Hergé’s Tintin—ring bells all over the world. But what about Belgian artists such as Félicien Rops, Panamarenko, Stromae, Roger Raveel, or Wim Delvoye? And do people know that the saxophone is a Belgian invention, or that Inspector Maigret sprang from the imagination of the Belgian writer Simenon?
Featuring caricatures and cartoons by:
Philippe Bossens, Marc De Bel, Leon De Borger, Luc Descheemaeker, Hans Dierick, Raphaël Donay, Nikola Hendrickx, Patrick Heymans, Tony Houbrechts, Jean-Claude Salemi, Stijn Lauwers, Marc Ghijsels, Jan Op de Beeck, Stefaan Provijn, Constantin Sunnerberg, Tony Tasco, Wouter Van Ghysegem, Norbert Van Yperzeele, Trui Vanden Berghe, Eric Vandenberghe, Bert Vanstiphout, François Veldeman, Luc Vernimmen, and Geert Verscheure–Stefaan Veys.
With thanks to the jury members: Marlene Pohle (Argentina), Fawzy Morsy (Egypt), Jitet Koestana (Indonesia), Ivailo Tsvetkov (Bulgaria), Leila Alaiy (Iran), and Marco D’Agostino (Italy).
Exhibitions from the “Cartoons from Belgium” series have previously been shown in Buenos Aires, Cairo, Eskişehir, Gabrovo, Legnica, Rimini, Saint-Just-le-Martel, Saint Petersburg, Shrewsbury, Tallinn, Timișoara, Warsaw, …
