Section: Art Exhibition

Coming from Shizuoka (93 miles or so in the south-west of Tokyo) where he was born in 1952 Amano has shown a great gift for drawing since his childhood. He began his career at the age of 15 at a cartoon producer’s and worked there as a character designer for 15 years. After leaving the… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 1998 – Yoshitaka Amano

Into the 20th century and under the sign of the scorpion Gerard Riksen was born in the cold, still post-war climate of the mid50ties. As a toddler, images started appearing to him, the source of which he could not find in the world around him.Slowly but surely he became aware of forlorn cultures that revealed… Continue reading La Quinta Essentia

The meeting of the marvellous, the bizarre and the unusual in all artistic forms (plastic arts, sculpture, painting, …) will take place in various places of the capital: The Maison Bis-A rt Bizarre: “the Museum” – p. 184/185 Rue Américaine 7, 1060 Brussels At the Museum of Fantasy Art, from the 2nd of March till… Continue reading Festiv’Art 2002

PLANET OF THE “SCREENS” A scenery designed by students from the evening class in Illustration & Comic-Strips at the Brussels Academy of Arts. The bar of the Festival of Fantasy Films is seen through the eyes of a zapping Big Brother. Hybrid screens come out of the walls, revealing to the public a cathodic vision… Continue reading Brussels Academy of Arts 2002 – Planet of the Screens

Exhibition Between dreams and nightmares The illustrations of Fabrice are an invitation for a journey through a bizarre and sombre universe, peopled by strange characters. He has developed a disturbing fantasy aesthetic wherein his creations mutate into impressionable matter. A broken puppet with a remarkably human anatomy, a man with a cracked stone skin, the… Continue reading Art Exhibition 2003

“Am I fed-up with it ?”A monumental work, created by 3 students of the night class Illustration & Comic- Strips of the Brussels Academy of Arts.• Stéphane DAS• Fabrice WAERNIERS• Alexandre WORONOFF

Jean-Claude Saudoyez battles with matter. Metal, in particular, is tested and tried to the limit. It’s cut into pieces, hammered upon, pierced, reassembled, braided, welded, screwed together and engraved. Jean-Claude Saudoyez conceives and realises sculptures. From 1995 till 2000, he has created an oeuvre of torso’s, bodies and busts which are bound together by the… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 2004 – Jean-Claude Saudoyez

Once upon a time, there was “Bruss-Hell”. With this magical phrase, which opens the doors of fantasy and imagination, our story begins. Ever since Salvius Brabo threw the hand of the giant Antigoon in the river Scheld, Belgium became a country drenched with fantasy. Our painters have assimilated this for a long time, from Bosch… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 2004 – 1st Brux-Hell Exhibition

Make way ! The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse thunder down the mountain on a bicycle. They are the Arkel Body Art Gallery, the Museum of Fantastic Art, the Galerie d’Enfer and the BIFFF. Not the annoying sausage, of course, but the amazing Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film. Shame on you if you didn’t… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 2005 –2nd Brux-Hell Exhibition

Every Wednesday and Sunday during the BIFFF the Actor’s Studio organizes Fantastikids, a selection of fantastic films especially for children. On the menu: two films a day, animation and make up.

At the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy, Thriller and Science-Fiction Films you can see amazing things and not only at the silver screen. As usual we make a plea to several extraordinary sculptors, painters and other artists to give our Festivalroom a “Fantastic” sight.They’ll introduce you in a sparkling, unearth world where you go from… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 1996

An Exhibition of Portraits of Dracula in the Festival Bar.

This internationally renowned artist can present a n impressive résumé. But that’s not the point. The evolution of an artist can be traced by his work. Behind every journey, there’s a story and in this case it starts with : “Once upon a time a little boy became intrigued by the magic world of insects… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 2006 – MARC

METAL SCULPTURESLifeless matter Unusable, forgotten In the back of an attic… Who, with a gifted soul Of a forgotten poet Can finally reveal ! To create Authentic witnesses Cheeky philosophers… Everything from nothing ! To imagine… To exhibit… To realise… A beautiful “truthful” trio.

The brain and artistic designer of “Alien-Expo”. This culturally deranged person, well known in unusual and fantastic circles, thanks to the Rencontres d’Art, the Halloween Festival, the Musée d’Art Fantastique,… invites you to discover the most recent alienesque creations, in which the wondrous and the surreal melt together with plastic arts. Dircken is also, together… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 2005 – MICHEL DIRCKEN

Jean-Paul Baibay was born in 1957 and grew up in a universe of virtual realities which seemed more attractive to him than daily life. His childhood-friends were the ( deranged ) geniuses of the Belgian comic-strip such as professor Sunfl ower, the Count of Champignac and doctor Septimus. His fascination for imaginary worlds and the… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 2005 – Jean-Paul Baibay

Fabe and Stefoon are two miserable failures who instinctively commit the most horrible crimes. Locked up for 8 years in a state re-education facility, they spent their time making “drawings”. A few results of their psychosis are exhibited here. Their work is typical for schizophrenics who think they’re aliens. Their fl ying saucer is supposed… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 2005 – Fabe and Stefoon

Fashion in O.V. The association Modo Bruxellae, active promoter of Brussels fashion, presents an exhibition of costumes realised by fashion designers for the Belgian stage arts. These clothes, in a presentation by Billie Mertens, were designed for dance, theatre and, of course, cinema and bear the signature of some big names in Belgian fashion, such… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 2004 – Modo Bruxellae

Daniel Monic A fantastic and philosophical search into the collective unconsciousness. Because of his philosophical and analytical dimension and his very personal approach of Fantasy without phantasms (which is even more strengthened by his extraordinary talent), we find ourselves in the presence of a True Master of the Genre ! Time has stopped in Daniel… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 2001 – Daniel Monic

Linda L. Stevens Returned Gazes Painter, playwright and journalist, Linda Stevens’ journey reflects the destiny of an artist who devoted the greatest part of her career to the gestation of creative art. During her different exhibitions through Europe, the visitors circulate amongst deep and richly coloured fragments of walls, as if time had given them… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 2000 – Lançon, Kaczmarski & Stevens

SOPHIE RETIF Once upon a time… An enchanted treeA birdOrCould it be an angel ?With wings made of paperThe moon, in your dreams is already fading awayLittle fairy fallen out of the sky.Time stands still, faded out soulsTo have returned to dust.From the tip of my eyes,Catch the magic …of images Contact :Sophie RétifRue du… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 1999 – Stratos, Gomez & Rétif

Sculptors Vilma and Jean-Marc Laroche are gifted alchemists. In Brazil they get the resin to sculpt objects from long forgotten legends. Ornamented with metal, bones, and threatening hooks, they take you by surprise. The dark beauty of their sculptures seduces you. Eye or tooth, a freightening look or a cruel laugh. Vilma and Laroche are… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 1998 – Jean-Marc, Laroche, Dubois & Vilma

Michel A. De Spiegeleire “.Krazgoyarsk, East Siberia10 May 1995 Institute of Pathology” After a search of 3 years the collection “Humboldt-Fonteyne” is recovered in the basement of the Institute of Pathology of the Uhiversity of Krazgoyarsk. Alexandre Humboldt-Fonteyne, bom in 1883. disappeared mysteriously in Lima in 1939. He left an impressive collection of zoological and… Continue reading FESTIV’ART 1997 – De Graef, Poncin, Vaufrey, Zvonock, Tegan, de Spiegeleire & ArtCadia