{"id":2972,"date":"2019-03-13T09:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T09:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpzimmer.demonlabs.be\/?post_type=projects&#038;p=2972"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:57:51","slug":"belgisch-congo-belge","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/wpzimmer-old.spot-digital.co\/en\/projects\/belgisch-congo-belge\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgisch Congo Belge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a series of miniature paintings Tuur and Flup Marinus copy their complete stamp album &#8216;<em>Belgisch Congo Belge<\/em>&#8216; in oil paint, page by page. The work consists of a highly esthetic range of images, an explosion of colours arranged in a play of recurrence and difference. The series bears witness to different histories and tales: colonialism and our relation towards it, the falling into disuse of postals and stamps, childhood memories, obsessive or escapist forms of philately and pictorial art\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-blockgallery-masonry\"><div class=\"blockgallery has-no-alignment has-caption-style-dark has-gutter\"><ul class=\"has-grid-xlrg has-gutter-15 has-gutter-mobile-15\"><li class=\"blockgallery--item\"><figure class=\"blockgallery--figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"598\" src=\"https:\/\/wpzimmer.demonlabs.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belgische-congo-belge-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2975\" data-link=\"https:\/\/wpzimmer.demonlabs.be\/en\/projects\/belgisch-congo-belge\/belgische-congo-belge-cover\/\" class=\"wp-image-2975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpzimmer-old.spot-digital.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belgische-congo-belge-cover.jpg 900w, https:\/\/wpzimmer-old.spot-digital.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belgische-congo-belge-cover-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wpzimmer-old.spot-digital.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belgische-congo-belge-cover-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpzimmer-old.spot-digital.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belgische-congo-belge-cover-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpzimmer-old.spot-digital.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belgische-congo-belge-cover-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blockgallery--item\"><figure class=\"blockgallery--figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/wpzimmer.demonlabs.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belgische-congo-belge-cover-binnenkant.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2973\" data-link=\"https:\/\/wpzimmer.demonlabs.be\/en\/projects\/belgisch-congo-belge\/belgische-congo-belge-cover-binnenkant\/\" class=\"wp-image-2973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpzimmer-old.spot-digital.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belgische-congo-belge-cover-binnenkant.jpg 900w, https:\/\/wpzimmer-old.spot-digital.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belgische-congo-belge-cover-binnenkant-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wpzimmer-old.spot-digital.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belgische-congo-belge-cover-binnenkant-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpzimmer-old.spot-digital.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belgische-congo-belge-cover-binnenkant-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpzimmer-old.spot-digital.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belgische-congo-belge-cover-binnenkant-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The fascinating and impermeable esthetics of the work, fragile and almost monumental at once, can be read as a symbol of our difficulty to relate to the Belgian colonial history in a profound, non-superficial way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The publication of the paintings in the Art Paper Collection has been presented during wpZimmer&#8217;s OpenHouse (January 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>EXTRA INFO<\/summary>\n<p>Project year: 2015<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>PROJECT DATES<\/summary>\n<p>15\/01\/2017, wpZimmer\/Open House, Antwerp (BE)<br>01\/08\/2015, Theater Aan Zee\/cc De Grote Post, Oostende (BE)<br>02\/08\/2015, Theater Aan Zee\/cc De Grote Post, Oostende (BE)<br>03\/08\/2015, Theater Aan Zee\/cc De Grote Post, Oostende (BE)<br>04\/08\/2015, Theater Aan Zee\/cc De Grote Post, Oostende (BE)<br>05\/08\/2015, Theater Aan Zee\/cc De Grote Post, Oostende (BE)<br>06\/08\/2015, Theater Aan Zee\/cc De Grote Post, Oostende (BE)<br>07\/08\/2015, Theater Aan Zee\/cc De Grote Post, Oostende (BE)<br>08\/08\/2015, Theater Aan Zee\/cc De Grote Post, Oostende (BE)<br>30\/07\/2015, Theater Aan Zee\/cc De Grote Post, Oostende (BE)<br>31\/07\/2015, Theater Aan Zee\/cc De Grote Post, Oostende (BE)<br><br><\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2977,"template":"","class_list":["post-2972","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Belgisch Congo Belge - wpZimmer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Belgisch Congo Belge - wpZimmer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a series of miniature paintings Tuur and Flup Marinus copy their complete stamp album &#8216;Belgisch Congo Belge&#8216; in oil paint, page by page. 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