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RIP Panamarenko (1940 – 2019)

Panamarenko was a Belgian artist famous for his cars that did not drive, his flying machines that did not fly and his submarines that did not submerge.

He was the archetypical artist, living with his mother in the Seefhoek until she died; a strange man who seemed out of place in the real world.

Grotesques in Antwerp

The Antwerp Plantin-Moretus Museum currently hosts Grotesques. A fascinating fantasy world.

Highlights include four of the Pourtraicture ingenieuse de plusieurs façon de Masques by Cornelis Floris de Vriendt and two prints of caricatures by Philippe de Soye and Hans Liefrinck I after Leonardo da Vinci.

Some photographic impressions can be found below.

  • One of the four
    Pourtraicture ingenieuse de plusieurs façon de Masques by Cornelis Floris de Vriendt

  • One of the four
    Pourtraicture ingenieuse de plusieurs façon de Masques by Cornelis Floris de Vriendt

  • One of the four
    Pourtraicture ingenieuse de plusieurs façon de Masques by Cornelis Floris de Vriendt

  • One of the four
    Pourtraicture ingenieuse de plusieurs façon de Masques by Cornelis Floris de Vriendt
  • One of the
    caricatures after Leonardo da Vinci

  • One of the
    caricatures after Leonardo da Vinci

See also: Flemish fantastique and grotesque