In October at the Foundation and beyond the walls

On the occasion of the 18th edition of the Nuit Blanche and at the invitation of the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, Thanks for Nothing presents an artistic, supportive and participatory project that brings art and the environment together

The Cité des sciences et de l’industrie will welcome installations by Michelangelo Pistoletto and Tomás Saraceno all night long, as well as performances and films by artists focusing on environmental issues. Thanks for Nothing has devised a committed program that aims to raise awareness of ecological issues through art.

The Fondation Thalie in Brussels proposes, through its residencies and public programming throughout the year, to address the issues of our societies through art. The Fondation Thalie is pleased to be include in the Thanks for Nothing event.

Highlights
Projection of artists’ films addressing environmental issues – Hall de la cité
With Hicham Berrada, Alex Cecchetti (guest artist at the Foundation in 2017), Ali Cherri (guest artist at the Foundation in 2018), Laurent Grasso, Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet (Artists welcomed in residence at the Foundation in 2017 and 2018), Kapwani Kiwanga, Angelika Markul (guest artist at the Foundation in 2018), Ariane Michel and Laure Prouvost.

Find the full Thanks for Nothing program for the Nuit Blanche here.

A program initiated by Thanks for Nothing for the Nuit Blanche 2019, at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie located at 30 Avenue Corentin Cariou, 75019 Paris, France

The Fondation Thalie supports Nuit Blanche alongside the Fondation Carmignacand the Fonds de dotation agnès b.

With Nina Przewozniak (baroque violin) & Francesco Olivero (theorbo)

Programme 
Nicola Matteis – Genio Turchesco
John Playford – John Kiss me now;
Niccolo Corradini – Sonata ‘La Sfrondata’
Johannes Hieronimous Kapsberger – Toccata I
Ignazio Albertini – Sonata 3a
Nicola Matteis – Aria con divisione, Scaramuccia
Johannes Hieronimous Kapsberger – Passacaglia, Canario e Ciaccona
Nicola Matteis – Diverse Bizzarrie sopra la vecchia sarabanda eppur Ciaccona
Antonio Vivaldi – Sonata ‘Manchester’ RV 12

Ensemble Didone Abbandonata was founded in 2015 after the meeting of two young musicians established in early music, joined together by the desire to explore the musical repertoire of the 17th and 18th century.

With Nina Przewozniak on baroque violin and Francesco Oliveroon theorbo and baroque guitar the project was born, starting with their first concerts. Each of them has distinguished themself with their instrument by participating in musical projects with national and international orchestras in Italian and European festivals (Academia Montis Regalis, Orchestre Francais de Jeunes, Ensemble Modo Antiquo, Accademia La Chimera, Ensemble del Ricercare) cooperating with famous musicians such as Marco Beasley, Furio Zanasi, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alessandro De Marchi, Federico Maria Sardelliand Enrico Onofri. The duo performed at the ‘Giovani per l’arte’festival in Cuneo, the ‘Marchesato Opera Festival’ in Saluzzo, the ‘Opera Barga Festival’, the ‘Prometheus festival’in Catania, the ERBAROCK festival in Erba (Como), the ‘PERLE Early music festival’ of  San Vito al Tagliamento and the ‘San Giacomo Festival’from Bologna.

Duration 1h, concert followed by a drink

In partnership with the non-profit association MGConcerts

We are pleased to invite you to the opening of a cabinet de curiosités gathering works on paper from Brussels private collections with the kind participation of collectors Isabelle Bourne, Yolande De Bontridder, Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Cédric Lienart de Jeude, … and the complicit eye of Anne Pontegnie.

More than 80 artists, including Francis Alÿs, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Art & Language, Louise Bourgeois, Ulla von Brandenburg, Isabelle Cornaro, Hans Op de Beeck, Wim Delvoye, Mark Dion, Lionel Estève, Paul-Armand Gette, Mona Hatoum, Camille Henrot, Fabrice Hybert, Pierre Le-Tan, Karine Rougier, George Segal, Jim Shaw, Agnès Thurnauer, Franz West …

Brussels collectors agreed to release their works on paper, each made a list, rediscovered hidden treasures he thought he had forgotten, and in an almost adolescent excitement, they found each other, confronted each other with their eyes. created associations, bridges … to make this exhibition a cabinet of ephemeral graphic curiosities, a sulphurous strand A hundred works of artists from various horizons, hung on the walls all-over, federated by the medium of paper and its fragility.

Operate an encounter, that of works that question our identities, our desires, our solitude. To descend into the depths of our soul, our bodies and its visceral network that we pretend to ignore. Traveling in erotic and secret waddled dreams, intoxicating with the frenetic and smoky features of ink and charcoal, or like a voyeur, watching the sexual activities of a clandestine couple, or taking in p Leine figure, exhibitionism assumed a portrait … A pictorial journey that deploys the exuberance of our beings, our multiple identities. Living is diluted in “habit you are” … Let us free our social tinsel, let down the masks, wander … Living the intimate is also a maze, a labyrinth for curious minds; in the intimacy of this house with domestic spaces, there are preparatory drawings that shape a collective utopia, other papers as joyful attempts at mineral or chromatic abstraction, from the lyricism of the artist. The body as habitat , idealized, exhibited, mutilated by some demiurgic forces. A psychedelic graphic cabinet that coats and provokes the spectator, discovering, hopefully, in the infinity of these propositions, his inner house, a part of his soul, his yin and his yang … just switch on the switch. The benevolent humility of a Francis Alÿs, the exposed body of a Paul-Armand Gette, the poetry of the gesture of Helena Almeida, the belching of Arnulf Rainer, etc. an infinite maelstrom, comic, an invitation to leave the frontiers of good taste.

Thanks to Isabelle Bourne, Yolande De Bontridder, Frederic de Golsdchmidt and Cedric Lienart de Jeude for having released the treasures of your secret cabinets, thus contributing to share with the public our passion for art ; A contemporary eye on the emerging art scene, set in space with the kind participation of Anne Pontégnie. 

Practical information
Exhibition from Thursday, October 24 to Saturday, November 16, 2019
From Wednesday to Saturday, from 14:00 to 18:00, and by appointment
Free from 23 to 27 October during the Brussels Drawing Week, then a single fare of 5 €

More information about the exhibition here.

Nathalie Guiot is curator with Benjamin Zurstrassen, director of the Horta Museum, of an exhibition about the work of the French artist Marie-Ange Guilleminot, who invests the house-studio of Victor Horta (1861-1947), jewel of the art nouveau in Brussels. An obvious resonance exists between this architect known for his passion for know-how and Marie-Ange Guilleminot who likes to develop collaborations with artisans to design what she calls her “sculptures d’usage”, La Malle, Le meuble spirale or Le Livre de seuil. The works of the artist arranged in each room of the house as a new narrative, harmoniously dialogue with the past of Horta, as if they both conversed on their respective influences, ranging from Japanese prints to William Morris, through the passion of materials and gardens.

Graduated from the Villa Arson in 1985, Marie-Ange Guilleminot lives and works in Paris. In 1997, she received the honorable mention at the Venice Biennale with the Salon de transformation. She is very present on the international art scene (first major acquisition in the United States for the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1996) then Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005 / Kyoto Art Center, 2006 / Center Pompidou Paris, 2010 / Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier, Poissy, 2012 / The ghosts of our past actions. Man Ray, Sonia Delaunay, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Villa Noailles, Mallet-Stevens, Hyères, 2014 / Touchez-voir, ordering an installation, made for the Palais Galliera, 2013-2016 / The exhibition Laps, at the Cité of the Ceramics of Sèvres, presents in 2015 a retrospective of his work, then Destine-moi une maison unfolds at the Art Center La Chapelle Jeanne d’Arc at Thouars in 2015 as a synthesis or artistic program of La Maison de Vie whose primer is developed today at Maison Horta.

Download here the press release.

This exhibition is supported by the Fondation Thalie.