Champagne!

Highlights: view on the Seine, Fischli & Weiss, Kiki Smith, Ugo Rondino, Pierre Ardouvin, Rachel Whiteread, Jochen Gerner.

Macarons at Ladurée.

AWESOME!!!
Brilliant alien/sci-fi movie (directed by 30 year old Neil Blomkamp!) with skinhead militaries, nigerian outlaws, nasty whites and dumb aliens.
A crazy pogrom set in contemporary South Africa dealing with sensitive issues such as racism, intolerance and refugee camps.
Food for thought and a corrosive reminder of recent events that have taken place South Africa itself.
Very clever!

Still at A.L.I.C.E, Studio Patrick opened their first solo show in the project room of the gallery.

Under the title “Family”, Anaïck Moriceau, Nicolas Peuch and Petra Peuch put up an energetic display of drawings, cute embroideries, and a knitted blanket wall piece. In the middle of the room, they installed a black, rather menacing, child size hut with a giant bouquet of colorful pompons hanging over it.

To add to the homely atmosphere, Anaïck served some delicious homebaked chocolate chip cookies.

Pica Pica opened their first solo Brussels show at A.L.I.C.E gallery.

On the walls: lots of paintings, big and small, of piles of objects and photographs in Pica Pica constructed frames.
In the space: handmade cabinets displaying wood sculptures, colorful constructions and a human scuplture under a survival blanket, ventilated by a (again handmade) fan.

Outside: a huge giant holding a strange construction on a spray painted background. Very cool.

Visit of Ann Veronica Janssens’ beautiful solo show at the Brussels contemporary art center Wiels.
We got lucky and bumped into a private tour by the artist herself.

Catch a glimpse of her in the mist.