Roasted chicken

The city of Brussels feeling almost empty, I had expected much shorter lines at the Sunday morning market on Place Flagey. Because of special (uniformed) customers, however, the line for roasted chicken was as long as ever.

The artists, the curator, the public

I have received several inquiries as to the exact location of the exhibition "The Border" shown in the previous post. The photographs are exposed on the town square in Flobecq/Vloesberg and here and there at regular intervals alongside a 15 km itinerary to Brakel. The villages are situated east of Halle and south of Ninove.

Above are shown two participating artists in front of their work: Alexandra Cool and Rula Halawani. Frank Vanhaecke is the curator of the event. The last picture shows the public expressing its appreciation over a glass of wine and I thank my friend Mirjam for getting hold of my camera and taking this picture for me.

Exhibition "The Border"

 

 

 

 

Borders between countries are intriguing...but how about an invisible language border between two communities, Wallonia and Flanders?  Along this magical line running by little towns like Vloesberg-Flobecq,  Everbeek...photographers have exposed their interpretation of the subject in an open air exhibition "De Grens- La frontière" (the border).

The following artists participate:
Michel Castermans, Karin Borghouts, Herman van den Boom, Alexandra Cool, Bieke Depoorter, Pierre-Philippe Hofmann, Rula Halawani, Dara Mc Grath.

The exhibition is organized by the centrum Herman De Croo (see last photo, Belgian politician, served as Minister in several governments, was President of the Chamber of Representatives) and the Centre Culturel du Pays des Colines, by Bozar.


The exhibits runs till September and for those living in this part of the world, I definitely recommend a visit.

Circles

July 21 Belgium's national day.

It was on 21 July 1831 that Leopold of Saxe-Coburg swore allegiance to the Belgian constitution and took the constitutional oath as the first King of Belgium.
Even though Julius Caesar mentioned the Belgae 2000 years ago, Belgium is a young nation. The independent state was created on October 4, 1830 but National day is celebrated as a commemoration of the oath of the first King.
Belgium has been without a government for well over a year now. I therefore hope that the readers of this blog do not mind a little humorist note of Belgian flags, stuck in beach buckets along with other playful things, for sale.

Bonnefantenmuseum

A few shots from this impressive museum in Maastricht, situated on both sides of the Meuse/Maas river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border (with both Flemish and Walloon region within easy reach from the city centre) and near the German border.
The Bonnefantenmuseum combines, in a building by Aldo Rossi, private and public collections with both old master painting and sculpture as cutting edge contemporary art. Furthermore it hosts the so-called Rijksmuseum Maastricht and collections focused both on medieval applied arts (Neutelings) as on mainstream contemporary (Vandenhove).
http://www.bonnefanten.nl/en/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht

Wedding

Felt like digging up and sharing these black and whites taken with my old second hand analog Canon. I have not used it much since I became a member of the Nikon and Panasonic Lumix  fan clubs. Don't you agree that there is something to be said for analog black and white photography...? If only it would not be such a painstaking job to develop the rolls in the dark room.. or if only I became much better and quicker at it!