"Brussels, European capital of Art Nouveau"

On Saturday March 7, 2020 at 6 p.m., at the book fair, the Horta Museum editions are organizing - following the release of the expected book "Belgian Art Nouveau: Towards the ideal" - a conference dedicated to Belgian Art Nouveau. Under the moderation of Borys Deloppe (UCLouvain), she will debate the three great Belgian names in Art Nouveau: Françoise Aubry (honorary curator of the Horta Museum), Werner Adriaenssens (curator at the Art & History Museum) and Anne Pluymaekers (director from the Culture pole of the European Center for Research and Training in the Glass Arts).

ABOUT THE WORK

The first volume of a set of four scientific volumes devoted to Belgian Art Nouveau through the Decorative Arts published by Éditions du Musée Horta, "Belgian Art Nouveau: Vision, Design and Craft" is deliberately ambitious. He intends to renew in depth and in the long term the look placed on production in the decorative arts in Belgium at the end of the 19th century, on the occasion of the emergence of Art Nouveau.

Following on from the exhibition ‘Collection de collecteurs’ organized at the Horta Museum in spring 2019, this publications program entitled is carried out in collaboration with a whole series of researchers from the Belgian and international museum and university landscape. The first volume, like the other three volumes, highlights a small group of artists of the period and opens the ball with the famous Belgian architect and designer, Victor Horta.

USEFUL INFORMATION

Date: Saturday March 7, 2020 - 6 p.m.
Location: Book fair, room to be confirmed
Title: "Brussels, European capital of Art Nouveau"
Speakers: Françoise Aubry (honorary curator of the Horta Museum); Werner Adriaenssens (curator at the Art & History Museum); Anne Pluymaekers (Director of the Culture pole of the European Center for Research and Training in Glass Arts).
Moderator: Borys Delobbe (UCLouvain).
Subject: Born in Brussels at the end of the 19th century, Belgian Art Nouveau has enjoyed exceptional European distribution through the decorative arts.

From furniture to glassware, the international aura of these works is to be rediscovered around the book.