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MYTHOPOEÏA – Fragments of eternity

Category : Exhibitions
Next date : 18/05/2025 > 05/07/2025
Place : Rivoli Building
55 rue Emile Claus, Ixelles
1050 Ixelles

Mythopoeia - Fragments of Eternity brings together, for the first time, the works of Basile Boon (BE) and Victor Cadene (FR), two artists who, through their practice, explore the universal and timeless themes of history. This exhibition highlights the quest for a personal and contemporary representation of myths and legends, while evoking fragments of the past. Through his frescoes and ceramic sculptures, Basile Boon immerses us in a world where imagination intertwines with history, and where each artwork seems to be both a fragment of time and a timeless act of creation. On the other hand, Victor Cadene unfolds his theatrical scenes in paper, true testimonies of stories that come to life through fragility and poetry. Together, they weave a contemporary mythology, reinventing the world from memories and ancient symbols. The exhibition offers a space where refined interiors, poetic gardens, and reversed archaeologies intersect. It invites the viewer to immerse themselves in their intimacy, where their personal legends meet in a dialogue between visual and narrative universes. Victor Cadene, a decorator artist with diverse practices, creates decorative scenes in two dimensions from his drawings, which he cuts and assembles into collages. More than the precision of the lines, it is the spontaneity of the composition and the emotion of color, essential to his work, that he seeks. He wants them to be opulent and theatrical, oscillating between exuberance and harmony. A profusion of details animates his works, which reflect his interest in decorative arts in the broadest sense. The influence of Baroque painting and Rococo style, the Nabis, Matisse, and the productions of the Martine Workshop by Paul Poiret are especially noticeable. His paper creations are an opportunity for numerous collaborations that allow him to explore different techniques in the decorative arts. He creates showcases and illustrations for companies such as Artcurial, the Orient Express, and Diptyque. He was recently invited by French craftsmanship ambassadors to design several works: carpets for Pinton, fans for Duvelleroy. He responds to these commissions from his studio near Fontainebleau, where every element is handmade, from drawing and coloring to cutting and collaging. Basile Boon As a child growing up in the Maas Valley, Basile Boon invented an inner world of construction games, wild landscapes, and legends of castle ruins, all of which have left their mark on his work as an artist. In 2010, as a master's student in architecture at La Cambre (Brussels), he created a cardboard city—an imaginary sanctuary made up of houses on tall, fragile pillars—at the art academy in Valencia during his Erasmus exchange. His arrival in Paris in 2020, followed by a disappointment in love, turned his artistic practice upside down, and he invented a form of self-therapy in which humor and the desacralization of social codes served as life-saving treatments. He materializes his joy, his sorrow, his fascinations, his aversions, his encounters... He tells us, through both matter and words, his odyssey: his own mythology. In contrast to a society that demands excellence and specialization, Basile Boon sees himself as an eclectic generalist. His work is an imperfect and not unironical mix of art brut, pop culture, symbolic and mythological references, architecture, and art. It is a form of reversed archaeology, in which Basile unearths a civilization buried in his thoughts.

Date 18/05/2025 > 05/07/2025

monday, tuesday and wednesday: closed
thursday, friday and saturday: from 13:00 to 18:00
sunday: closed
Place Rivoli Building
55 rue Emile Claus, Ixelles
1050 Ixelles
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