Kunst & Onderwijs

Works

As the work of Victoria Parvanova suggests, in one of Barbie, Nike, Dior, and Harrods possessed Western capitalism, the professionalization, commercialization, and privatization of education could not be avoided. In this way, even education itself becomes a kind of brand name, where the founders of artistic thought are degraded to contemporary influencers.

Partly for this reason, this exhibition - a collaboration between AARS (short for Antwerp Artist Run School) and the arrière-garde gallery - alternately explores with seriousness and humor the (im)possibility of organizing art education at an institutional level.

Because perhaps the critical distance between the artist and society is essential for creating meaningful art. From his self-aware isolation in Mol, Toon Tersas described himself as "a simple boy who attended school during the holidays."

In his most refined schoolboy handwriting, Joseph Willaert also repeatedly parodied the difficulty of keeping the petit-bourgeois world of imagination beyond the school walls. In this exhibition, he awards a diploma to a student "because she is simply an angel."

Art and Education is a group exhibition featuring works by Joseph Willaert, Fritz and Jan Van de Kerckhove, Idris Sevenans, Tomas Beaujean, Toon Tersas, Peter Morrens, Werner De Vos, Flexboj&la, Erich Wichmann, Luc Deleu, Tijs van Bakel, Victoria Parvanova, Peter De Meyer, Guy Rombouts, Robby Blondbaard, Jan Tromp, and Filip Francis.