From May 18 till June 29, 2019.
Three passionate about Belgian art are making one of Evelyne Axell’s dream come true.
Exactly one year before her death, Evelyne Axell wrote:
“I want to create images that are available within reach of all desires and whose glitz stimulates the appetite of the crowds. My dream: to run a factory where sophisticated machines would cut, paint, arrange translucent, fluorescent, radiant materials, according to my orders and my will! A factory at the service of the fantasy of eroticism where works would be created on a chain basis and sold in supermarkets. »
Evelyne Axell, September 10, 1971.
That same year she produced two lithographs – “Le peintre I and II” – each in 25 copies. Unfortunately, only a few of these lithographs remain, most of them having been destroyed later in a flood in her husband Jean Antoine’s house. She didn’t have time to create a “Factory” like Andy Warhol to release her works “on a production line” and make them accessible to the general public.
It is with this in mind that the Belgian Gallery had the idea of creating original adaptations from a selection of works by Evelyne Axell in order to make this work known and offer it at an affordable price for all. Unlike the many counterfeits, sometimes of dubious taste, that can be found on illegal Internet sales sites, the Belgian Gallery offers high-quality original silkscreens and engravings, entirely made in Belgium in limited and numbered editions, accompanied by a certificate guaranteeing authenticity and respect for copyright.
In the same letter of 1971, Evelyne Axell wrote, then crossed out, probably not to shock the collectors of the time:
“Half a century ago, an artist was treating a few privileged gluttons. I want to treat as many hungry people as possible. »
Belgian Gallery
Place d’Armes, 8
B- 5000 Namur
info@belgiangallery.com
