Marc Goethals

Marc Goethals (b. 1957) is a Belgian artist and poet. His works on paper, his poetry, his drawings, and paintings, speak of a Belgium llinked to the calligraphy of the Arabs, via Spain, to the iconography of Rubens and the Flemish Baroque, to Memling, to the Van Eyck brothers, to Magritte. In a few syllables, or a few strokes, he maps out sense and nonsense. His early work for Agricola Due Leoni is a sign of his complex relation to the maker. Friends with the curator's, Cornelia, first husband, Goethals places the sign for "olive oil," under the arse of the protagonist, the artist. At the same time, the artist puts himself and his own image on the line, and it's a sort of tribute to the curator, as well, if not the producer of the oil. Deep personal bonds bind the artist and the curator, and the project. A lived life, a biologically lived life in art.

Image: video still from “Kunstenaarsboeken: favoriete boeken van kunstenaar Marc Goethals”
Video by Sander Tas / Commissioned & Produced by Kunstenpunt/Flanders Arts Institute