Curator’s introduction: Léon Spilliaert
Friday 17 April 2020 11am - 12pm
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
£10, £6
Léon Spilliaert
Join guest curator Anne Adriaens-Pannier as she gives an insight into the visionary talent of self-taught artist Léon Spilliaert and uncovers the mysteries behind his remarkable works.
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In this talk, Adriaens-Pannier will explain how Leon Spilliaert's artistic identity was shaped by the affinity he felt with writers and thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Emile Verhaeren and Edgar Allan Poe, and how his career developed apart from the movements of Symbolism, Expressionism and Surrealism.
This 50-minute talk will be followed by an audience Q&A.
Dr Ann Adriaens-Pannier is Artistic Director of Léon Spilliaert House, Ostend, and has curated multiple exhibitions including Spilliaert (2006), at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.