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Het Nieuwsblad: De VerzamelArts, art route from October 13 to November 5 2023

Governor fills her palace on the Vlasmarkt with current art and everyone is welcome to come and have a look

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After the portico of former Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, the entire official residence of the governor on the Vlasmarkt will also open for an art project this weekend. With Collectors, art collectors and their favorite works are put in the spotlight. Governor Carina Van Cauter and her husband, Johan Tittelboom, are great art collectors.

Bart Moerman

Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 3:37 PM

No fewer than 2,000 spectators attended the first Prinsenhof art biennale last weekend: the portico of ex-prime minister Guy Verhofstadt was probably a big draw. But in general, art routes are in, especially if, as in Jan Hoet's legendary Chambres d'Amis, they give the opportunity to view private homes.

And even more so when it comes to houses of famous people. In the coming weekends you can enter the governor's official residence, the stately mansion on the Vlasmarkt that once belonged to the Carels family - the founders of the factory at Dok Noord.

Governors such as Herman Balthazar, André Denys and Jan Briers actually lived there with their families, but Van Cauter did not. “I've only slept here three times,” she says. “My husband is mayor, so we stay at home in Herzele. Crisis meetings can now also be held digitally. We don't necessarily have to be in Ghent for that.”

Governor Van Cauter between two Christs: to the left of Matthieu Ronsse, to the right of Jan Van Imschoot. — © fvv

Van Cauter became governor in the summer of 2020, but is now opening her doors at the Vlasmarkt for the very first time. She now shows contemporary art from ten collectors across two floors of the immense house.

“My husband is passionate about art, and so caught that bug from him,” she says. The ten collectors in the governor's residence are industrialists, doctors, bankers, lawyers... and one politician, Flemish MP Jean-Jacques De Gucht (Open VLD), who is showing off, among other things, a painting by Fred Bervoets measuring three meters by two.

Van Cauter herself puts forward the Ghent painter Adelheid De Witte, who has her studio on the Muide. And also has two canvases by punky artist Liliane Vertessen. “Clean, huh,” she beams as she shows the works.

Other striking canvases include a Christ on his cross by Jan Van Imschoot, with a mirror image of a Christ by Matthieu Ronsse, also canvases by Mario De Brabandere, Joëlle Dubois, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, sculptures by Johan Tahon, an egg-filled mussel pot by Jacques Charlier etc.

Very beautiful work, very tasteful also in the stately palace of the governor, but largely good art that does not really shock or grab the viewer by the throat. In the accompanying catalogue, SMAK director Philippe Van Cauteren emphasizes the importance of such collectors: they help the artist live and survive, and ensure that he can experiment in complete freedom, he writes.

Collector's art has highlights up to and including De Kouter: a whole series of works by Liliane Vertessen is exhibited in the bank building of BNP Paribas Fortis, and at the neighboring Coutre gallery in the Kleinvleeshuissteeg, the Ghent artist William Phlips made an installation, in addition to work from a collector's collection. from Merelbeke.

 

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