Les Marcel, Collection R.PATT

With the works of Marcel Broodthaers - Marcel Duchamp - Marcel Marïen - Marcel Vandeweyer - Jean-Michel Alberola - Stephan Balleux - Frank JMA Castelyns - Sébastien Delvaux - Dialogist-Kantor - Takahiro Kudo - Lou Dubois - Man Ray - Mathieu Mercier - Laurence Skivée - Walter Swennen - Christophe Terlinden - Emmanuel Tête - Jasper Johns - Saâdane Afif - Ben - Camille Leherpeur - Richard Hamilton.

Le catalogue reprend l'interview des collectionneurs Chantal et Serge R.PATT, comment ils ont construit leur collection sur une vingtaine d'années.
Le titre Les Marcel a été choisi car leur collection a commencé avec les premiers achats d'œuvres de Marcel Mariën, Marcel Broodthaers et Marcel Duchamp. Par la suite, ce sont les contemporains qui entrent dans la collection.

memymom is the mother-daughter artistic collaboration of Marilène Coolens and Lisa De Boeck. Their transgenerational project, which first emerged in the 1990s, consists of intimate archives and family photos where Marilène urges her daughter Lisa to express and invent herself by improvising her own theatrical scenes. Since 2004, the protagonists have worked together behind and in front of the lens, simultaneously photographer and model. Over the years, memymom's dreamlike, partly directed portraits have matured into a conversation about metamorphosis, personal identity, potential, as well as a plea for sensual analysis and tragic romanticism, as irrefutably illustrated in their latest series Somewhere Under the Rainbow.

In this book, which is the culmination and prolongation of their recent work, the two artists disclose the way in which their themes and visual language have remained constant over the past thirty years, while simultaneously evolving fascinatingly in terms of aesthetics and content, through recurring references and reflections. This exhibition also provides an opportunity to see how the inclusion of an assorted group of other people, each playing a different role, has always been part of their artistic process.