Doing It My Way

Showcasing Belgium's vibrant and diverse art scene, this book presents both young contemporary and established leading artists in a representative cross-section spanning successive generations. The book presents the work of 16 contemporary Belgian artists and encompasses painting, sculpture and video. It juxtaposes ground-breaking and established, internationally acclaimed works with those of rising, contemporary young artists who have yet to be discovered. Rather than adhering to a prescribed complex of themes, this book highlights the characteristic motifs and associations running like a common thread through the artists' works: emptiness and absence, a bleak environment, dark and mysterious spaces, the blurring of boundaries between the absurd and the real. Religiosity, flights of fantasy and morbidity are all recurrent themes featured in these works.