Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, Gent Open van maandag tot en met zondag van 14u tot 18u Van 28 september tot en met 4 oktober presenteert Curtiz in Velvet Room een tentoonstelling waarin ouder en nieuw werk met elkaar in dialoog gaan. De tentoonstelling biedt een overzicht van zijn fotografische praktijk, met onder meer polaroids uit de reeksen I Killed You a Dozen Times en Back. Daarnaast worden verschillende nieuwe werken voor het eerst getoond, waaronder het drieluik Intuiti

MONDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER - SUNDAY, 4 OCTOBER / 14:00 - 18.00 Screening 5 short films in loop. All films are in English and/or have English subtitles. @ Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Ghent, Belgium The Ghent Film Week is often referred to as Europe's most obscure film festival. An island oasis for art amidst a sea of commercialism. Sure, it's modest in form, as we mainly focus on screening films and less on the glitter and glamour. The festival focuses on contemporary cinema

Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Gent / Monday, Sept. 28 to Sunday, Oct. 4 / 14.00-18.00 Original Polaroid photos by Piero Toffano Piero Toffano 1956 is a contemporary Italian photographer specialized in nude photos. Enrolled in the FIAF, from 2018 to 2021 he was a Gold photographer of Photovogueitalia. He has exhibited on various occasions both collective and personal, lately: - May 2021 exhibited at Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center in Japan - September 2021 exhibite

Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Gent / Monday, Sept. 28 to Sunday, Oct. 4 / 14.00-18.00 « Drawing is a mysterious intermediate realm, a homeland, a place where the inner landscape forces the correspondence with the outer one. Never arrangement, never replication of photographs. Drawing is crime scene, study of the lost & recovered crime scene. Tried decryption only the appearance of interpreted characters, return to the cryptic. Collection & unbundling. Drawing is a failed

Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Gent / Monday, Sept. 28 to Sunday, Oct. 4 / 14.00-18.00 Sculpture of wood, polystyrene glass and plastic. A wooden real size replica of the German Biber, a one-man submarine from World War II. The sculpture was painted with phosphor paint, which makes it glow in the dark and which gives an unreal, fairy-tale effect. Roel van Timmeren has his roots in painting. Painting enables him to critically question the world around him and relate to the

Frederik Leyers (1976) is a typical example of a ‘late bloomer’. After working more than 10 years as a lawyer, he started painting at the age of 40. At first, the conventional ‘oilpaint on canvas’, but now gradually expanding his terrain of work. Frederik likes Isolated images/objects/subjects that allow for different interpretations. dependent on the spectators’ mood of the day. His starting point is a photograph or a still, found or selfmade. These chosen images mostly refl