It Almost Seemed a Lily

Berlinde De Bruyckere

Berlinde De Bruyckere, Barbara Baert, Lieve Watteeuw

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Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers
01 May 2019

Sculpture; Decorative arts; Individual artists, art monographs; Decorative finishes & surfaces

Berlinde De Bruyckere in a sensitive dialogue with the sixteenth-century Enclosed Gardens.

Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere's most recent work is inspired by the sixteenth-century artefacts known as the Enclosed Gardens. The Gardens are small wooden cabinets filled with a profusion of artefacts, ranging from handmade sculptures to flowers and animals in silk, and including wax medallions and fabric-wrapped bone relics. De Bruyckere senses a natural affinity between her work and these wonderful microcosms, which were part of the spiritual world of the sisters of the Hospital of Our Lady in Mechelen, who crafted them with the utmost care and devotion. With her series 'It Almost Seemed a lily', De Bruyckere enters into a dialogue with the seven Enclosed Gardens of Mechelen, which are now recognised as masterpieces. She has created monumental wooden frames that house the tender silhouette of a flower, the latter of which is composed of a multitude of materials that can conceal as much as they reveal. The imposing dimensions of the frames contrast with the fragility of their interiors. Just as the sumptuous Gardens stimulate the imagination and suggest a paradisiacal 'garden', the material stratification and interwoven contrasts in De Bruyckere's works also evoke another time and space: a Utopia.

De Bruyckere is showing her new series for the first time in an exhibition of the same name in the Hof van Busleyden Museum in Mechelen, where the Enclosed Gardens are displayed (15 December 2018 - 12 May 2019). To mark the occasion, the artist has created a luxurious portfolio in which her work is linked both visually and conceptually to the Gardens. Evocative images by top photographer Mirjam Devriendt are interwoven with poetic texts by Berlinde De Bruyckere, Barbara Baert (KU Leuven) and Lieve Watteeuw (KU Leuven). The portfolio contains six removable sections that can be progressively opened and unravelled as though an Enclosed Garden.

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Artist Berlinde De Bruyckere enters into a sensitive dialogue with the sixteenth-century Enclosed Gardens .

Published to accompany an exhibition at Museum Hof Van Busleyden, Mechelen, 15 December - 12 May, 2019

Text in English and Dutch.

By: Berlinde De Bruyckere, Barbara Baert, Lieve Watteeuw
Imprint: Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers
Country of Publication: Belgium
Dimensions: Height: 345mm, Width: 280mm,
ISBN: 9789492677778
ISBN 10: 9492677776
Pages: 102
Publication Date: 01 May 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Evocative images by top photographer Mirjam Devriendt are interwoven with poetic texts by Berlinde De Bruyckere, Barbara Baert (KU Leuven) and Lieve Watteeuw (KU Leuven).