Internationaal symposium - Celebrating James Ensor’s Modernity. New Perspectives 

Naar aanleiding van de 75ste verjaardag van het overlijden van de Belgische kunstenaar James Ensor (1860-1949)
9, 10 & 11 december 2024
Locatie: Universiteit Antwerpen, Hof van Liere, Antwerpen (België)
Voertaal: Engels

James Ensor wordt steeds meer erkend als een cruciale figuur in de ontwikkeling van de moderne kunst. Met zijn compromisloze beeldtaal nam de kunstenaar afstand van het klassieke Europese schoonheidsideaal en het impressionisme dat hem aanvankelijk had gefascineerd. Met zijn gedurfde satire en maskerades met experimentele vormen en contrasterende kleuren liep Ensor vooruit op voorlopers van het expressionisme zoals Edvard Munch en Vincent Van Gogh, maar ook op de surrealisten. Rond 1900 erkenden avant-gardisten als Wassily Kandinsky, Emil Nolde en Erich Heckel hem als een vernieuwend kunstenaar die brak met klassieke West-Europese artistieke waarden en tradities.

Dit driedaagse symposium brengt nationale en internationale onderzoekers samen die de afgelopen jaren nieuw licht hebben geworpen op James Ensor, de schilder, graficus, tekenaar en schrijver. Tegelijkertijd wil het een brug slaan naar de toekomst om de interesse in, het onderzoek naar en de inspiratie voor (de cultuurhistorische context van) Ensors uiteenlopende praktijken levend te houden.

Het symposium, georganiseerd door het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen in samenwerking met de Universiteit Antwerpen (ARCHES - Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences & ARIA - Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts), sluit aan bij de tentoonstelling In Ensors stoutste dromen. Het impression­isme voorbij, die het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen in het najaar van 2024 organiseert als slotakkoord van het Ensor-jubileumjaar.

Tickets

50 euro/dag
Studenten: gratis (op reservering)

Avondbezoeken aan de tentoonstellingen Ensors stoutste dromen. Het impressionisme voorbij in het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Maskerade, Make-up & Ensor in het MoMu en Ensors staten van verbeelding in het Museum Plantin-Moretus zijn in de tickets inbegrepen.

Programma

Sunday 8 December 2024

6.00 – 8.00 pm

Opening Reception

Location: Antwerp City Hall, Grote Markt, Antwerp

Monday 9 December 2024

8.30 – 9.00 am

Registration

 

9.00 – 9.15 am

Welcome: Luk Lemmens, Chair, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp & Carmen Willems, General Director, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

 

9.15 – 9.45 am

Herwig Todts, PhD, Curator of In Your Wildest Dreams. Ensor Beyond Impressionism, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

‘J’ai étudié attentivement les manières les plus opposées’. The Reception in Europe of James Ensor

 

9.45 – 10.15 am

MaryAnne Stevens, Art Historian and Curator of After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, National Gallery, London, 2023

Positioning James Ensor within the Invention of Modern Art

 

10.15 – 10.45 am

Coffee Break 

 

10.45 – 11.15 am

Jean-Philippe Huys, Art Historian, Centre international pour l’Etude du XIXe siècle @ Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Mariette Rousseau-Hannon, the Key Meeting in James Ensor’s Young Life

 

11.15 – 11.45 am

Noémie Goldman, PhD, Director of Agnews, Brussels

James Ensor and his Audience at Les Vingt. A Visual Culture Study

 

11.45 – 12.15 pm

Ina Dinter, PhD, Director, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach

James Ensor, Misogynist or Feminist? On Women in Ensor's Life and Writings

 

12.15 – 12.45 pm

Sabine Taevernier, Art Expert, Curator and Advisor to Public and Private Collections

What happened to James Ensor’s Legacy? 

 

12.45 – 2.00 pm 

Lunch

 

2.00 – 2.30 pm

Prof. Em. Anthea Callen FRSA, PhD, The Australian National University, Canberra & The University of Nottingham

French pleinairisme and James Ensor in the 1880s

 

2.30 – 3.00 pm

Annelies Rios-Casier, PhD Candidate, University of Antwerp (AXIS & ARCHES) & Ensor Research Project, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Ensor Research Project: Recent Material-Technical Discoveries on James Ensor’s Paintings

 

3.00 – 3.30 pm

Thierry Ford, PhD, Acting Head of Research & Development (Senior Paintings Conservator NMF), The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Revisiting the Surface, Edvard Munch and Varnishes

 

3.30 – 4.00 pm 

Break

 

4.00 – 4.30 pm

Willemijn Stammis, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

States of Imagination: An Introduction to James Ensor’s Graphic Experiments

 

4.30 – 5.00 pm

Jay A. Clarke, PhD, Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago 

Pastel and Colored Pencil: Symbolist Drawings by James Ensor, Jean Deville, and William Degouve de Nuncques

 

5.00 – 5.30 pm

Prof. Em. Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, PhD, Seton Hall University, South Orange

James Ensor and Modernist Chinoiserie

 

Evening

7.00 – 9.30 pm

Private View of the Exhibition (including a light dinner)

In Your Wildest Dreams. Ensor Beyond Impressionism, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Tuesday 10 December 2024

9.00 – 9.30 am

Cathérine Verleysen, PhD, Curator of 18th & 19th Century Art, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

The Genesis of James Ensor’s Visions: The Aureoles of Christ or the Sensibilities of Light 

 

9.30 – 10.00 am

Scott Allan, PhD, Curator of Paintings, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 

James Ensor’s Entry into Los Angeles

 

10.00 – 10.30 am

Alison Hokanson, PhD, Curator of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

New Research on James Ensor’s Comical Repast (Banquet of the Starved)

 

10.30 – 11.00 am

Break

 

11.00 – 11.30 am

Astrid Becker, PhD, Deputy Director, Stiftung Ada und Emil Nolde / Nolde Museum Seebüll

‘The greatest living Belgian’. James Ensor and Emil Nolde

 

11.30 – 12.00 am

Lieven Van den Abeele, Independent Scholar and Curator of Erich Heckel in Flanders, Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, 2024

James Ensor’s Friendship with Erich Heckel during the First World War

 

12.00 – 12.30 pm

Patricia Berman, PhD, Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art, Wellesley College, Boston

Edvard Munch and James Ensor In and Out of Sight

 

12.30 – 1.00 pm

Agnieszka Lajus, PhD, Acting Director, National Museum of Warsaw & Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw

The Circus of Madmen. Expression and Irony in the work of Witold Wojtkiewicz

 

1.00 – 2.00 pm

Lunch

 

2.00 – 2.30 pm

Aminudin TH Siregar, PhD Candidate, Leiden University

James Ensor in Indonesia

 

2.30 – 3.00 pm

Stefano Agresti, PhD, Chair of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sapienza Università di Roma

Vive la sociale? James Ensor as Political « Cultural Hieroglyph » in Jannis Kounellis’s Art of the 1970s

 

3.00 – 3.45 pm

Roundtable 

Curating James Ensor’s Legacy

Chair: Dr. Johan Pas, Dean of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

 

3.45 – 4.15 pm

Break

 

4.15 – 4.45 pm

Bart G. Moens, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Antwerp &  Nele Wynants, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, University of Antwerp (ARIA)

Funfair Art: The Circulation of the Arts and Media at 19th-Century European Fairs

 

4.45 – 5.15 pm

Evelien Jonckheere, PhD, Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Antwerp

Ensor’s Clowns, Freaks, Marionettes, and Skeletons: Grotesque Fantasies as a Cure for Boredom

 

5.15 – 5.45 pm

Hannah Rose Blakeley, PhD Candidate, Princeton University & Faculty Fellow in the Princeton Writing Program

Delirious Aesthetics in the Work of James Ensor

 

Evening

7.00 – 10.00 pm

Private View of the Exhibitions (including a light dinner)

Ensor’s States of Imagination, Museum Plantin-Moretus

Masquerade, Make-up & Ensor, MoMu – Fashion Museum Antwerp

Wednesday 11 December 2024

10.00 – 10.30 am

Davy Depelchin, PhD, Curator of 19th Century Paintings, Conservator Museum Wiertz & Museum Meunier, Curator of 19th Century Sculptures a.i., Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels 

An Artist who Owed Nothing to the Masters of the Past? James Ensor and the Academy

 

10.30 – 11.00 am

Laura Fanti, Art historian, Brussels

In Search of Beauty: James Ensor and Idealism

 

11.00 – 11.30 am

Denis Laoureux, PhD, Research Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Artistic Rivalries and Complex Dynamics in Fin-de-Siècle Belgium: James Ensor and Henri De Groux 

 

11.30 – 12.00 am

Break

 

12.00 – 12.30 am

Prof. Em. Susan M. Canning, PhD, Independent Scholar

James Ensor’s Vision: Light as Social Allegory

 

12.30 – 1.00 pm

Lotte Kremer, Master’s programme Art History, Utrecht University

Positioning the Artist: James Ensor’s Use of Humor in Self-Portraiture

 

1.00 – 2.00 pm

Lunch

 

2.00 – 2.45 pm

Roundtable 

The Scope and the Meaning of Commemorating James Ensor’s Legacy in Flanders in 2024
Chair: Annick Schramme, PhD, Full Professor, University of Antwerp & Antwerp Management School
Panel: Peter De Wilde, Administrator General, Flanders Heritage Agency; Bart Temmerman, Secretary General, Flemish Department of Culture, Youth and Media; Liesbeth De Maeyer, Visit Antwerp; Wim Vanseveren, Intendant Ensor2024; Kaat Debo, Director, MoMu – Fashion Museum Antwerp

 

2.45 pm – 3.15 pm

Prof. Em. Bart Verschaffel, PhD, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University

Nature morte? Silent Living Things in the Light

 

3.15 – 3.45 pm

Juliet Simpson, PhD, Full Professor of Art History, Chair of Cultural Memory and Research Director in the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, Coventry University

Ensor’s Veiled Modernity. Re-imagining a Liminal Gothic Urban

 

3.45 – 4.15 pm

Break 

 

4.15 – 4.30 pm

Jan Dirk Baetens, PhD, Assistant Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen

Celebrating James Ensor’s Modernity. The Meaning of the Current and New Perspectives

 

4.30 – 4.45 pm

Manou De Sutter, Digital Archive and Digital Projects, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Multiple Collections in the Digital Age at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

 

4.45 – 5.00 pm

Nico Van Hout, PhD, Head of Collections, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Researching and Collecting James Ensor at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Future Directions

Organisatiecomité: Jan Dirk Baetens (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Bart G. Moens (Universiteit Antwerpen), Herwig Todts (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen), Geert Van der Snickt (Universiteit Antwerpen), Cathérine Verleysen (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen), Nele Wynants (Universiteit Antwerpen).

 

In partnership met:

Ensor 2024:

James Ensor House – Event Flanders – KMSKA, Antwerp – FOMU, Antwerp – MoMu, Antwerp – Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp – Mu.ZEE, Ostend – City of Antwerp – City of Ostend – Visit Flanders

University of Antwerp (ARCHES – Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences) & ARIA – Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts)

Radboud University Nijmegen

 

 

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