Hendrik Folkerts

A comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot A comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot (b. 1963), whose contemporary work builds bridges to predecessors such as Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Goya, and Manet. Van Imschoot’s painting consciously opts for a clear, sometimes contradictory and ironic style. The directness of his decisive brushwork and his balanced yet audacious use of color is strikingly contemporary, while his work draws on historical themes from literature and art history. In this way, Van Imschoot engages in a continuous dialogue with the past, in which he, with a dose of cynicism, often targets phenomena or figures that find themselves on the fringes of (contemporary) society. Bringing together more than 220 works by Van Imschoot with five accompanying texts, this book gives fresh insight into the painting practice of this Belgian master.Distributed for Mercatorfonds

Irony and self-reflectivity are central to Mounira Al Sohl's work, which explores feminist issues, tracks patterns of microhistory, also being socially engaged, political and escapist all at once. In a series of drawings, Al Solh collects personal histories and experiences that merge from humanitarian and political crises in Syria and the Middle East. The more than 150 drawings and embroideries presented here document deeply personal encounters and conversations between Al Solh and Syrian refugees as well as other refugees from the Middle East. Text in English and Arabic..