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Beskrivning
Phantasmagoria presents the imaginative and subversive world of Belgian artist Raymond Minnen, whose sculptural practice has, for over five decades, transformed everyday objects into uncanny, humorous, and poetic assemblages. Working at the intersection of pop culture, surrealism, and contemporary sculpture, Minnen reconfigures familiar materials into new visual narratives that question consumption, desire, and identity. His works blur the boundaries between the artificial and the organic, the absurd and the profound, inviting viewers into a world where objects gain unexpected life and meaning. Through richly illustrated pages and critical texts by historian Rik Van Braband and Karel Van Beeck, this monograph offers a comprehensive insight into Minnen’s visual language and the evolution of his sculptural imagination. Spanning a career of more than fifty years, Phantasmagoria celebrates an artist who challenges our perception of the everyday and turns the banal into something extraordinary.Text in English and Dutch.
