EXPO HENRY van de VELDE - La Cambre



 

From 1927 until today, the La Cambre School of Fine Arts has always been a “book laboratory”: typography, print, illustration, book binding and object design … have all been at the heart of artistic practices of this school since its creation.

When Henry van de Velde founded La Cambre, he initiated a publishing project in collaboration with the most prominent authors of the time; he created workshops dedicated to the book and donated a collection of graphic archives to the School, which are unique in the world.

Artists like Herman Teirlinck, Elisabeth Ivanovsky, Dominique Rolin, Fernand Baudin, Lucien de Roeck, Pierre Alechinsky, Michel Olyff, Jo Delahaut, Gabriel Belgeonne, Bernard Villers have carried on this research and numerous young artists and students followed in their footsteps culminating in the introduction of a new subject “around the book” being introduced in the curriculum at La Cambre in 2006.

 

About a hundred unique unpublished pieces of the 20th and 21st century art of the book, among which one of the most beautiful books of Henry van de Velde as well as recent productions (conceptual books, object books, artist’s books etc.) will be gathered and presented to the public in one of the School’s most emblematic buildings: the “Hôtel de Bodt”, a private house built by Henry van de Velde himself in Brussels in 1931.

Organisation
La Cambre and the Association “Fonds Henry van de Velde”
With the collaboration of the “Archives d’Architecture Moderne”, “Archives et Musée de la littérature”, “Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris”, “Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier”, “Université Libre de Bruxelles”, “Bibliotheca Wittockiana” and various artists.

Location – opening times
ENSAV - La Cambre, Hôtel van de Velde (Maison De Bodt)
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 27-29
1000 Brussels –Belgium

From 18th October until 4th November 2007
From Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 6pm
Free entry

Catalogue
- 64 pages
- Colour, black and white illustrations
- 19 x 24 cm

Conferences
17/10/07 Catherine de Smet, “Livres et architectures”, in collaboration with Recyclart, The Brussels Institute of Architecture Conference Series
24/10/07 Michel Olyff, “Parcours d’un graphiste de/à La Cambre”
26/10/07 Alexandre Kostka, “Henry van de Velde et l’édition allemande”

Infos and contact
Go to www.lacambre.be then click “News”