Paul VANDENBROECK & KOEN BROUCKE CONCERTLEZING
SALON RADICAL is een geëngageerd kunstenhuis en wil debat en discussie aangaan rond hedendaagse politieke thema’s , de rol van kunst, de betekenis van religie, wetenschap. We koesteren onderzoek , traditie en vernieuwend gedachtengoed.
Paul Vandenbroeck onderzoekt reeds jaren Berberweefkunst gemaakt door plattelandsvrouwen. Deze zijn vol van ambacht, vakkundige maîtresse en sociaal engagement. In deze lezing duidt hij de traditie , technieken maar ook de link met hedendaagse abstracte kunst. In een intuïtieve vloeiende beweging met het pianospel van Koen Broucke, schilder en historicus wordt dit een concertlezing over de gevoelige waarneming.
PAUL VANDENBROECK
Paul Vandenbroeck has worked with the Collection Research Department of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp from 1980 to 2018 and he has held a part-time professorship with the Anthropology Research Group IMMRC, Social Sciences Faculty of KU Leuven, since 2003. He is an art graduate from that same university and obtained his PhD in 1986.
His main research interests are the oeuvre of Hieronymus Bosch, iconography of early modern art in the Low Countries, late medieval and Renaissance Flemish art in Spain, late medieval and early modern artistic links between the Low Countries and Spain, iconological questions regarding
figurative and abstract art, North African domestic textile art, the feminist psychoanalytical theory of Bracha Ettinger, and topics on the interface between art and anthropology (including the specificity of art in female religious communities, the relationship between folk and elite culture, and between therapeutic rituals and artistic creation). Currently, Vandenbroeck continues his research through fieldwork, on the semantics or ‘an-iconology’ of the nearly extinct abstract rural weaving art in Southern Tunisia (Chenini, Guermessa, Tamezret), and on the gender-biased construction of artistic canons.
Vandenbroeck has combined scientific research with the staging of (often) experimental exhibitions. Together with choreographer/dancer Pé Vermeersch (see https://www.pevermeersch.com) he has elaborated a performative exhibition on the transcultural energetics of aesthetic creation (‘ENCOUNTERS’, Museum MAS, Antwerp, 18th of may – 20th of august 2017). Follow-ups, smaller and focused on specific affects and moods, were : DESERTSCAPES (Kortrijk, Salon Radical, march 2019), ADEMROOD (Kortrijk, Salon Radical, sept.-oct. 2021), and NOCTURNAL SIGNS (Kortrijk, Salon Radical, 19 oct. – 12 nov. 2023).
