DEKADENCE
BOHEMIAN LANDS, 1880-1914
TOWN HALL OF BRUSSELS - MUSÉE PROVINCIAL FÉLICIEN ROPS DE NAMUR
PRESS
COMMUNIQUE
A double exhibition. A touching encounter, intimate and moving; a selection of 300 works
from major Czech museums and private collections: paintings, drawings, sculptures and
photographs of an impressive charisma.
In European Art, and in particular in the Bohemian Lands at the end of the 19 th Century,
some artists, bruised by a society they judged too materialistic, abandoned themselves to
their inner demons, nourishing on apocalyptic phantoms and willingly identifying themselves
with the sad destiny of tragic characters like Jesus, Judas or Hamlet. This fin de siècle
unease will be the theme of the exhibition at the Brussels City hall while the macabre
eroticism inhabited by femme fatale and other unbridled demons, appealing and disquieting
at the same time, are to be seen at the Musée provincial Félicien Rops in Namur.
František Drtikol, Karel Hlavacek, František Kobliha, Jan Konůpek, Frantisek Kupka, Gabriel
Max, Alfons Mucha, Jan Preisler, Max Pirner, Jakub Schineder, Max Svabinsky, Josef Váchal,
Franz von Bayros, and others guide the visitor through two exceptional paths where
pleasure and questioning rival with excitement and dismay.
Exhibition organised by the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Brussels and the
Musée provincial Félicien Rops in Namur, in partnership with Arbor Vitae, with the support of
Commissariat général aux Relations internationales de la Communauté française de
Belgique, within the framework of its agreement that links the Communauté française
Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Czech Republic.
DEKADENCE BOHEMIAN LANDS, 1880-1914
30/01 > 10/05 2009
CITY HALL OF BRUSSELS
GRAND'PLACE - 1000 BRUSSELS
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS OF THE CITY OF BRUSSELS
T. + 32 (0)2 279 64 45 - culture@brucity.be
www.brupass.be – www.brucity.be
MUSÉE PROVINCIAL FÉLICIEN ROPS
12, rue Fumal - 5000 Namur
T. + 32 (0)81 77 67 55
rops@ciger.be - www.ciger.be/rops
EXHIBITION FROM 01/02 TO 10/05 2009
PRESS CONFERENCE
THURSDAY 29/01 2009 AT 12.30
SATURDAY 31/01 2009 AT ???
VERNISSAGE
THURSDAY 29/01 2009 AT 6PM
SATURDAY 31/01 2009 AT ???
FROM
30/01 TO 10/05 2009
Open from 10am to 6pm, except on Monday and public holidays
ENTRANCE BRUSSELS
€5
€ 4 * seniors - groups (min.10)
€ 2 students - unemployed - schools - ICOM
Art. 27 | Culture Cheques SODEXHO
€ 7 Combined ticket with La Centrale électrique
Free under 15 years of age
* reduction on presentation of the ticket of the other exhibition
ENTRANCE NAMUR
€5
€ 2,50 *