Marcel Maeyer : A la recherche du temps perdu

While Bex evokes the biographical and fragmented character of Maeyer's production, Foncé considers his retrospective exhibition according to the particular hanging of the works, which draws relations between different stylistical periods. Refering to Proust, the author notably dwells upon the pluralism of the artist's iconography, the unifying role of the frame and the life/work relationship. Reproduction of a letter by the artist. Text in French, Flemish and English. Biographical notes. 73 bibl. ref

Dennis Adams : Transactions

Foncé contrasts Adams' production to that of other socio-politically oriented artists, and examines his use of textuality, dislocation and imprecision. Michaud proposes that Adams restructures the rapports between memory, everyday experience and otherness through his interventions designed to effect subtile interruptions in the "aesthetic of distraction" proper to the urban environment. With commentaries on several projects dating from 1987 to 1994. Biographical notes. Bibl. 5 p

Les mots et les images dans l'art belge de A à Z = Word and Image in Belgian Art from A to Z = Woord en Beeld in de Belgische Kunst van A tot Z

Kenis discusses art-historical systems of classification and investigates the thesis that Flemish art has never freed itself from a "close entanglement with the world of words" through the era of the Burgundian Court to Bosch. Foncé focuses on contemporary art, examining different forms of relation between word, image, and thing. With visual documentation on nearly 100 artists' work

Geneviève Cadieux

Pohlen writes on Cadieux's work in terms of the theme of "magical surface" and brings to light the tension between the cool photographic medium and the expression of emotions. Foncé stresses how the artist's iconography reveals an intimate approach to corporeality. Biographical notes. Bibl. 7 p