The French-Moroccan artist Medhi-Georges Lahlou has been living in Brussels for over 10 years. He chose to set up his studio in Molenbeek, a neighborhood with a large Moroccan community. It is the ideal place to find inspiration for his art which navigates in a very autobiographical way between his two cultures of birth Western and North African, Christian and Islamic.
Graffiti World is a short program dedicated to contemporary urban art around the world. Each episode explores a specific city, highlighting iconic works of street art. Local soundscape accompanies the images for an authentic, commentary-free immersion. The program showcases the creativity and diversity of artistic expression in public spaces. An invitation to discover the richness of graffiti as an art form in its own right.
Photographer Bruno Dewaele asks Antoine Agoudjian for several large silver prints as he prepares an exhibition. They have been working closely together for 20 years, developing a strong alchemy. Let’s witness the journey from negative film to print photography.
Private Tour takes you to discover the exhibition "Bernard Van Orley, Brussels and the Renaissane" at BOZAR in Brussels. This exhibition aims to rediscover the work of this great Brussels painter of the first half of the 16th century. He made paintings, but also tapestries. You will find his masterpiece "the polyptych of Job and Lazarus".
Follow the artists that adorn the streets soil walls. Zenoy is native to the western suburbs of Paris. He discovered graffiti in the late 1980s to the early movement Graffiti / Hip Hop. After all these years it still has the same motivation and the same enthusiasm when asked about graffiti. Bullet is a house painter and colorist by trade. She started graffiti at the age of 14, but it was her father who introduced her to drawing when she was younger and inspired her to continue in the art world.
In this episode, we will meet Slam, a portrait photographer. He lives between Paris and New-York, and he is a photographer specialized in beauty, music, fashion, he makes portraits sometimes provocative. He will tell us about his life, his career, and how he became a photographer.
Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques
They are artists and cartoonists and they found a place to chill out! It is the home of the authors of Angoulême. Since its inception in July 2002, more than 2,000 artists have stayed. Between 6 and 24 months: It is the time required to create them. What are they looking there? Inspiration? Technical means? A community support? The film proposes to focus on three illustrators twenties to share the place and discover their daily: how they work, how this proximity allows them to evolve and criticize each others to progress, and more generally, how the geo-location influences or not.
Graffiti World is a short program dedicated to contemporary urban art around the world. Each episode explores a specific city, highlighting iconic works of street art. Local soundscape accompanies the images for an authentic, commentary-free immersion. The program showcases the creativity and diversity of artistic expression in public spaces. An invitation to discover the richness of graffiti as an art form in its own right.
Private tour takes you to discover the "Calder-Picasso" exhibition at the Picasso National Museum in Paris. The works of Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder are exhibited and respond to each other, offering a real experience to the viewer. You will discover sculptures such as "Woman in the Garden" or "Shark and Whale".
Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques
Römer and Römer, a couple of painters, have decided to settle in Berlin. They share their passion for the world around them and for the perpetual staging of social life. Römer and Römer, enchanters of reality, transmit the singularity of their view on the moments of encounters and celebrations of our lives.
In China, landscape painting is called “Shan shui,” which means “Mountain and Water.” Indeed, if one looks closely, one will notice that there is no Chinese landscape painting without at least one mountain and a body of water. Pond, lake, river, or spring — water symbolizes fluidity. It always flows downward to embrace the Earth. The mountain, on the other hand, rises to challenge the clouds and reach for the sky. Between Heaven and Earth — isn’t that where humanity finds its most harmonious and fitting place?
Graffiti World is a short program dedicated to contemporary urban art around the world. Each episode explores a specific city, highlighting iconic works of street art. Local soundscape accompanies the images for an authentic, commentary-free immersion. The program showcases the creativity and diversity of artistic expression in public spaces. An invitation to discover the richness of graffiti as an art form in its own right.
Today, Travelers takes you to Marseille in France, the city of sun, petanque, pastis and the Olympique de Marseille soccer team. We will start the visit on the Old Port, then we will go to the street of the canebière which is a very famous street of the city. We will visit the Museum of Civilization and the Mediterranean, the Le Corbusier hotel and especially the Notre-Dame de la Garde basilica. Marseille has a lot more to offer us.
Origami is about the art of paper folding, a Japanese and Chinese millenary tradition. In modern usage, the word “origami” is used as an inclusive term for all paper folding, regardless of their cultural origin. Different folding and sculpting techniques, new models, bright colors – you’ll see all of this in our program! We will teach you how to transform a flat square sheet of paper into a finished sculpture – from simple to complex!
“Happiness is an angel with a serious face.” These words by the Italian painter Amadeo Modgliani define to perfection the portraits which made him famous… He reinvented the icon, with his oval faces, his elongated necks and lapis-lazuli eyes which are strangely expressive even when robbed of substance. You will be able to appreciate the simplicity of his figures, the restraint in his lines and colours, especially when you admire “The Woman with the Blue Eyes” or the “Portrait of Anna Zborowska”. Enjoy your visit!
Lissa Rivera is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose work has received numerous awards and accolades and has been exhibited internationally. Lissa's latest project looks at photography's connection to identity on a personal level, focusing on her domestic partner as her muse. Rivera was chosen as a "Woman to Watch" for the biennial exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Private Tour takes you to the discovery of the exhibition "the print at the time of Bruegel" at BOZAR in Brussels. Here you can discover the rich collection of the Royal Library of Belgium. It is possible to observe prints of the artist Pietr Bruegel, but also of other artists of the 16th century.
Nicolas Poussin is quite a paradox! He personified the typical classical French painter, but spent most of his life in Rome… That is where he made his name, gradually progressing from public commissions to private commissions, to finally painting only for a clientele of enthusiastic European art collectors. For them he painted masterpieces which you are about to discover: Et in Arcadia Ego, The Judgement of Solomon, and the Four Seasons. Enjoy your visit! 2013, France.
Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques
Origami is about the art of paper folding, a Japanese and Chinese millenary tradition. In modern usage, the word “origami” is used as an inclusive term for all paper folding, regardless of their cultural origin. Different folding and sculpting techniques, new models, bright colors – you’ll see all of this in our program! We will teach you how to transform a flat square sheet of paper into a finished sculpture – from simple to complex!
