Hans Theys

Hans Theys ist Philosoph und Kunsthistoriker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er schrieb und gestaltete fünzig Bücher über zeitgenössische Kunst und veröffentlichte zahlreiche Aufsätze, Interviews und Rezensionen in Büchern, Katalogen und Zeitschriften.

Diese Plattform wurde von Evi Bert (M HKA : Centrum Kunstarchieven Vlaanderen) in Zusammenarbeit mit der Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerpen (Forschungsgruppe ArchiVolt), M HKA, Antwerpen und Koen Van der Auwera entwickelt. Vielen Dank an Fuchs von Neustadt, Idris Sevenans (HOR) und Marc Ruyters (Hart Magazine).

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Walter Swennen - 2015 - Leve de huisvrouw [EN, interview]

Hans Theys

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Hans Theys

Long Live Housewives !

Mini-conversation with Walter Swennen

Walter Swennen: I spent a good part of the summer brooding about the end of the art
of painting until I heard that new cave paintings, which are 40,000 years old, had been found in Spain. Then I thought that if forty thousand years ago there were people looking at these paintings and asking each other how they had done them and where they had found that beautiful earth, this strange activity would continue so long as there are people on earth.

Yet amazement that the world is not disintegrating stayed with me, until I had a second thought. What holds the world together, I mused, is that there are housewives everywhere who go shopping every day. And then I did this painting.

Montagne de Miel, 2 August 2015

Translated by Helen Simpson

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