Euro Visions @ Beaux-Arts
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Written by BrusselsLife Team -
11 Mar 2007, 00:00
(Updated: 13 Dec 2012, 07:59)
Within the scope of the 50th anniversary of the signature of the Treaty of Rome and the 60th anniversary of the creation of Magnum Photos, the Royal Museums present twelve views from photographers belonging to this mythical agency.
These cartes blanches relate to the countries having last joined the European Union. These are singular visions, sometimes ironical, enigmatic or dark, at other times flirting with fiction, by Carl De Keyzer (Malta), Martine Franck (Czech Republic), Alex Majoli (Latvia), Peter Marlow (Cyprus), Martin Parr (Slovenia), Mark Power (Poland), Lise Sarfati (Lithuania), Chris Steele-Perkins (Slovakia), Patrick Zachmann (Hungaria), Donovan Wylie (Estonia). After Paris, Milan, Budapest and Warsaw, this presentation is the last stage of the exhibition in Europe which was then completed by two new cartes blanches given to Bruno Barbey in Bulgaria and Paolo Pellegrin in Rumania. These were produced by the Royal Museums, as a response to the changes taking place within the European Union, with the enlargement to these two countries on January 1st, 2007. In order to underline the involvement of Belgium in the European history, the Royal Museums have associated themselves with the Royal Library of Belgium and Belgian National Archives which also present exhibitions devoted to the Treaty of Rome: Europe à la Une?Europa: voorpaginanieuws? focus on the way the daily press covered the signature of the Treaty and Spaak, Rothschild, Snoy. From Val Duchesse to the Treaty of Rome underlines the team who assisted Paul-Henri Spaak, the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs at that time
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