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The price is worth it
Acher
Boulevard d'Avroy 28-30
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TO DO
Hilal Aydoğdu
100 Rue Saint-Gilles
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V – 150360/1 p. 204, 265, 266
Dóra Benyó
1 Féronstrée
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Fausse bonne nouvelle
Juan d’Oultremont
31b Rue de la Cathédrale
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Et fouisse toujours on trouvera bien
Gaspard Husson
18 Rue de l'Etuve
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La constellation du navire Argo
Sarah Illouz & Marius Escande
Hôtel de la Cour de Londres 40 Rue Hors-Château
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One Line (… Better Than On – line!)
Marin Kasimir
31a Rue de la Cathédrale
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Cityscape
Sarah Lauwers
29 Rue de l'Université
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Traversées
Alexiane Le Roy
3 Rue de la Cathédrale
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Mécanique d’un mur
Raphaël Maman
9 Passage Lemonnier
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Vapeurs
Eva Mancuso
5 Rue Chéravoie
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Don’t cry over spilllllled tears anymore
Francisca Markus
7 Rue Saint-Remy
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Actions !
Maxence Mathieu
56 Rue Saint-Gilles
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On ne peut rien faire d’autre que tenir debout
Élodie Merland
113 Rue de la Cathédrale
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Travel Local, Buy Local
Oya
107 Féronstrée
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Le vestiaire
Camille Peyré
85 Rue de la Cathédrale
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22 empans et 1 palme
Leïla Pile
75 Rue Hors-Château
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Chronique florale
Ionut Popa
101 Féronstrée
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The Sunken Place
Louise Rauschenbach
4 Rue de la Cathédrale
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Le temps d’une trace / La trace du temps
Florian Schaff Marvyn Brusson
1 Rue Courtois
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Open closet archive 1995/2021/2023/2024
Bo Stokkermans
Passage Lemonnier, 37-39
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Mutations x Urbaines
Adrien Mans Benjamin Ooms
17 Rue des Croisiers
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Je m’organise…
Leen Vandierendonck
159 Féronstrée
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Wer rettet die Welt
Paul Waak
16 Rue du Palais
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Regarde… ce qu’il se passe à côté
Sculpture/Peinture B3 ESA Liège Melissa Andreia Alves ...
137-139 Féronstrée
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Pauvre petit belge qui tremble
Paolo Gasparotto
25 Rue Saint Paul
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SANS TITRE
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Charles-Henry Sommelette
Curator : Yoko Uhoda
17Îlot Saint-Michel
More subversive then he appears to be. Banal or trivial are two adjectives that could be used to describe the marked trails, undergrowth, hedges and other garden spots dear to Charles-Henry Sommelette. There is no question that the painter draws inspiration from the ordinary things in his most immediate environment (to the extent that he is one among few to have depicted them). These favourite subjects are not necessarily beautiful, fascinating, unusual or picturesque (which etymologically signifies something that deserves to be painted). However, the technical mastery he demonstrates in their depiction, the originality of viewpoint which he adopts and the balance of the composition make these inconsequential places – anyone who was to wander through them would rapidly forget them – subjects in their own right. This is indeed the considerable feat achieved by Charles-Henry : the ability to transform the insipid into artistic beauty.
Certain analysts such as the philosopher Jean Baudrillard, who criticised modern art for appropriating banality, trash and mediocrity and not doing anything better with it as well as annihilating any possibility of illusion and imagination, would be forced to eat their words on observing the works of Charles-Henry Sommelette. Using non-places, devoid of any human presence, he manages to stoke the imagination, contributes to reinventing the landscape painting genre and brings splendour back into fashion without becoming banal or trivial.