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The Ghent altarpiece: An unlikely fruit meaning original sin
By Kelly Grovier29th April 2021
Van Eyck s Ghent altarpiece features a surprising candidate for the forbidden fruit. Kelly Grovier explores how it gives spiritual coherence to the 15th-Century work.
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Great works of art contain seeds of strangeness from which their meaning endlessly emerges. Some of these seeds are impossibly famous: the twisting fingers of foam that tickle the breaking crest of Hokusai s Great Wave; the vibrating whorls of astral heat in Vincent van Gogh s Starry Night; the weightless orb dangling from the lobe of Johannes Vermeer s Girl with a Pearl Earring. Some are yet to be uncovered. In the case of the exquisite 15th-Century altarpiece designed by the Flemish artist Hubert van Eyck and painted by his brother Jan for Saint Bavo s Cathedral chapel in Ghent – the widely revered polyptych known as the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb – a juicy detail at the very heart of the work has been waiting to b
Galerie Nathalie Obadia opens its fifth exhibition with Sophie Kuijken
Sophie Kuijken, Z.V., 2021. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 90 x 160 x 4,5 cm. © Sophie Kuijken. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris / Brussels.
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.-Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Belgian artist Sophie Kuijkens fifth exhibition, following her 2020 show in Brussels. Shielded from the limelight for nearly 20 years, then unveiled for the first time in 2011 at the Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum, under the encouragement of its director Joost Declerq, Sophie Kuijkens pictorial oeuvre is a highly singular addition to the art of portraiture.
Following in the footsteps of Flemish painting, Sophie Kuijkens work disrupts the genres traditional codes from the inside, by adopting a deeply troubling contemporary approach. In an atypical space between two worlds, her portraits are imbued with a paradoxical presence, at once silent and scrutinizing, human and spectral, blurring the contours of hu